Thursday, 12 May, 2011 - 12:17
At the end of every season it is most interesting to see how the game has progressed – or regressed, at all levels.
Sadly, this season has seen football exposed to corruption on a World level. England being overlooked for Russia is quantifiable, what isn’t, is the most newly progressive League in World football, missing the invaluable promotion if its development in favour of Qatar....
Thursday, 10 February, 2011 - 17:10
Imagine this – you are trying to scrape together a tiny profit as your business falls victim to the gradual erosion by taxes of a great British institution – the local pub, and you wake up to find a court summons by a giant multi-billion pound company.
Thursday, 27 January, 2011 - 09:02
Andy Gray could be described as a dinosaur of the golden age of football: The 1970s, with its Gene Hunt approach to sexism, racism and any other sort of bigotry related ‘ism’. But so could many of his generation, in and out of the game. Which is perhaps why his time has come, or is it?
The media would have you believe Andy Gray’s dismissal from Sky’s football studios is because of...
Monday, 20 December, 2010 - 14:38
The Sun newspaper’s chief sportswriter has knee-jerked his way through the horrendous December snow here in the UK, by calling for a winter break. His plan is for football to take a break in the third week of December until the second week of January.
The problem with the insular world of football writing is they never consult with marketing gurus or of course, fans, before they huddle together...
Friday, 3 December, 2010 - 09:08
There are many questions following England’s calamity at the FIFA Christmas prezzie party. FIFA were quick to mount an attack on the English media, but they would wouldn’t they. The vote did come just three days after the already infamous Panorama programme.
Friday, 8 October, 2010 - 06:24
When Frank Lampard had his goal ruled out in the high profile encounter between England and Germany at this year’s World Cup, you could see the colour drain from Sepp Blatter’s face as soon as a TV camera was poked in his mush.
Friday, 8 October, 2010 - 06:22
If you can’t trust them to spell a simple item of clothing – can you really trust them to run a British football club?
Wednesday, 25 August, 2010 - 06:54
If anyone needed further evidence of the English media’s obsession with undermining any chance the national team has of success, you can count on The Sun newspaper to remind you.
The day after the England under 21s squad was announced for the start of their forthcoming internationals, chief reporter Shaun Custis described the England manager as a “Jackass” and “Gormless”.
Monday, 23 August, 2010 - 12:45
A quick perusal of the BBC website and you could be forgiven for thinking everyone is going to win the League. Not the Premier League you understand, that is the most predictable competition, but every other League. The blogs are full of it, and that is what it’s all about for the football fan. You can’t beat the start of a new season.
Saturday, 5 December, 2009 - 08:46
The early 1950s were a tough time for English football, with infamous defeats to Hungary and that soon to be re-run in a living room near you; defeat to USA in the 1950 World Cup.
If the realisation hit home to every one of us in the game, that we were not the dominant powers that we all believed we were, and that the rest of the World was catching up, and fast, it arguably ushered in a welcome...
Friday, 20 November, 2009 - 06:03
It is probable that my goal scoring record would not be nearly as impressive if we were not allowed to bundle goalkeepers into the net in my day.
Although it is also probable that in an age of technology and advancement in everything from medical science to weaponry, the Victorians would have embraced video technology were it available for their new game of association football.
Suffice it to say...
Monday, 9 November, 2009 - 16:56
Wednesday, 4 November, 2009 - 15:55
So, the much-awaited birth has finally happened. Well, much awaited by the tabloid newspapers and Trasherati magazines that make it their business to know about A to Z list people's lives.
Kai Wayne Rooney is an odd name.
At first sight it was Kia.
Kia is an arguably overpriced, small and compact car that has a certain amount of critics.
Monday, 17 August, 2009 - 12:27
The role of match officials appears to have grown out of proportion with the game. After all, how many of us have met a single person that has once paid to watch a referee's performance?A personal view is also that had television evidence been available in Victorian times; a period when innovation was considered one of the greatest contributions to society, there may never have been match...
Monday, 17 August, 2009 - 11:21
For Football League, League Cup and FA Cup fixtures the 2009/10 season, managers will be allowed to include seven substitutes on their team-sheets. The move is to bring the competitions in line with a scheme initiated by the Premier League last season. This may seem somewhat irrelevant in the great scheme of things, and maybe it is. It’s certainly one of those minor rule changes that seems to...
Monday, 17 August, 2009 - 11:14
When Manchester United lost Cristiano Ronaldo to a horrible case of Madridpoacheritis their fate was apparently sealed. Liverpool suffered a similar fate when Xabi Alonso departed for the Bernabeu.Arsenal had an altogether different problem to deal with – their players thought pre-season training was taking place in Manchester and turned up in the wrong part of the country in light blue kits.
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