Trivial Pursuit
Name five players who played under Sven for England whose names start and end with the same letter. Explained properly within…
Name five players who played under Sven for England whose names start and end with the same letter. Explained properly within…
A nice little site we stumbled across – get your hero/zero emblazoned on a t-shirt. They have Jan Aage-Fjortoft…
This comes from United’s 5-0 destruction of Portsmouth; it didn’t lead to a goal, but was pretty special…
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…
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?
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
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…
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…
The next in our series of genuine ‘genius’ moments – Guti’s assist in Real Madrid’s victory over Deportivo. Just brilliant.
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…