Tiger’s article has provoked a response from Ben Procter. Below he analyses Harry Redknapp’s claim, before looking at exactly why O’Neill deserves the prestigious Footballsup Coach of the Year Award… Having read Tiger’s article on the footballing personalities of the year, I thought I might just expand on one of his nominations – the coach [...]
So Chris Hoy is the 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. So many questions – not least, is cycling even a proper sport? With four cyclists and no footballers in the Top 10 candidates, we felt it entirely fitting to launch the inaugural FOOTBALLSUP Football Personality of the Year awards.
It has been confirmed that Roma and Brazil World Cup winning legend will join Unibond side Garforth Town. Yes, you read that correctly. He’s the second high profile Brazilian – after Socrates – to turn out for Simon Clifford’s men. And the prospect of a fit, 38 year old Cafu tearing down the right flank [...]
It could be worse. Chelsea lie one point off the summit of the Premier League, are in the midst of a remarkable run of domestic away victories, and have progressed to the last sixteen of the Champions League. For most teams that would be a pretty good position to be in, but the way Chelsea’s [...]
As we always say, in-depth reports and stats are better found elsewhere – we usually recommend the BBC, but after the Strictly Come Dancing fiasco they can no longer be trusted… so try Times Online instead. Our mini-round up starts with the Big Four – a couple of weeks after they all failed to score, [...]
Our predictions this week were nothing short of abysmal. But our friends at Wakuba, a subscription betting service (with some free content) did a whole lot better. A bumper – nay lucrative – weekend for them, and therefore us, included backing Dortmund in the Bundesliga, laying both Arsenal and Rangers, and then somewhat more spectacularly [...]
The less said about this weeks predictions the better… As ‘Tiger’ aptly summarised after my pathetic attempt ‘leave it to Lawro eh?!’ Yes. Yes I should. Just one more chance at redemption next week…
Every week Mark Lawrenson makes retarded predictions on the BBC website – never going above 3 goals in any game and invariably picking about seven 2-0s. Now I’ve stuck my neck out, I’ll endeavour to do better than him on this weekend’s games (Lawro’s predictions followed by mine): Aston Villa 2 v 0 Bolton Both [...]
For the first time in a while, tomorrow we’ll have no results to report nor games taking place (prior to the weekend bonanza, of course). The incessant deluge of fixtures is brilliantly overwhelming. Hopefully that hiatus will give us some time to lay down some entertaining prose on something or other. Give infinite monkeys infinite [...]
In what will become a regular feature, Footballsup will review a football related book – playing to our mantra of ‘everything football’. As an initial offering, we’ll use our recent favourite (that’s not strictly true – it’s certainly a favourite but not actually that recent)… 1. David Peace – The Damned Utd David Peace tells [...]
