Chelsea 1-0 Roma Roma were desperately disappointing – coach Loopyold Spaghetti adopted tremendously negative tactics, often with 10 men behind the ball – Roma didn’t have a single shot on target in the entire 90 minutes. I just don’t know what he was hoping to achieve. Yes, they were disciplined, and only lost because of [...]
Click the photo below to see Zaki’s spectacular scissor kick against Liverpool Part of Wigan must wince every time Zaki scores. It would have been great for them if he had remained just under the radar, in the zone Steve Bruce has managed to keep Wilson Palacios and Antonio Valencia. But Zaki’s return of 7 [...]
An ultimately convincing 5-1 triumph gave England three wins from three matches in WC qualifying, cementing our strong position at the top of the group. A win in Belarus on Wednesday and it would take an implosion for us not to qualify. There were impressive performances from Frank Lampard – who I am not the [...]
So… an interesting weekend of football. Utd and Chelsea won convincingly – 2-0 did not do either of them justice – Liverpool won stirringly, coming from 2-0 down to win 3-2 at Man City, and Arsenal continued their recent erratic form, scraping a last minute draw against Sunderland on the back of a tremendous 4-0 [...]
