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Trivial Pursuit
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Name five players who played under Sven for England whose names start and end with the same letter. Explained properly within…
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Cult Zeros
Monday, February 8th, 2010
A nice little site we stumbled across – get your hero/zero emblazoned on a t-shirt. They have Jan Aage-Fjortoft…
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Moments of Genius No. 7 – Berbatov. Again.
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
This comes from United’s 5-0 destruction of Portsmouth; it didn’t lead to a goal, but was pretty special…
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Some Unsubstantiated Rumours
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
I stress that – these are rumours, passed to me by an un-named source. So don’t sue. Even if you did, I don’t have any money. They are about John Terry, by the way…
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Is watching football better if you don’t support a team?
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Traditionally football has been tribal, with rival factions roaring on their boys and wishing ill upon their rivals. The love of winning and fear of losing overrode all else. That has its own thrill and attraction. But to purely appreciate football, wouldn’t it be better to watch as an abstract neutral, observing with detachment and disinterest?
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Gutless Gunners. By Andrew Walker
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
It is an old football adage that a great team is built around a great spine. With that in mind, Arsene Wenger is in big trouble, writes Andrew Walker
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J.T. can Kiss Goodbye to the Captaincy. By Andrew Walker.
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Andrew Walker writes: John Terry must be the cornerstone of England’s World Cup 2010 challenge. In light of recent scandals, it cannot be as captain…
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Moments of Genius No. 6: Nani
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
I never thought Nani would feature here, because he’s shit. But today (and in fairness in the last couple of games) he has actually looked good. And he capped those good performances with a spectacular goal against Arsenal. Whether the finish was deliberate is debatable (actually it’s not, it wasn’t) but the turn that beat two men out wide was genuine class. A moment of genius, you could say…
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Moments of Genius No. 5: Guti
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
The next in our series of genuine ‘genius’ moments – Guti’s assist in Real Madrid’s victory over Deportivo. Just brilliant.
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England – A Whole World (Cup) of Trouble?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Back in November we looked at England’s potential squad – the definites, possibles, maybes, and no-ways – and it looked pretty rosy, pretty balanced. Fast forward three months and it has a whole different, far more worrying appearance…
