Mar

30

Friday goal action

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Quaresma v Belgium. Can Porto hang on to him this summer? He’s strongly linked with Chelsea but he could be just the player Arsenal need.

Mar

29

Arsenal should have some fun with Reyes

Filed Under La liga, Premiership, Transfers | 2 Comments

Everybody knows that Jose Antonio Reyes adapted to life in England like a polar bear in the tropics and he’s been talking again about how much he wants to stay with Real Madrid.
In fact, I would suggest that he’d stay with any club in Spain, even Real Betis (sworn enemies of Sevilla) rather than return [...]

Mar

28

Steve Gerrard is currently the most unpopular man in England

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Why? His two goals have kept Steve McClaren in his job.
At half-time, it didn’t look good for the man dubbed “McClown” by the ever-brilliant Sun. The crowd was rocking with chants of “Steve McClaren is a wanker” and “There’s only one David Beckham”. And then the square-headed mug from Liverpool had to [...]

Mar

28

McClaren’s irreversible slide from ‘mediocrity’ to ‘lunacy’ continues

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It sure has beeen easy getting our shots in at Steve McClaren and his merry band of head-hanging malcontents these past few days (fun, too).  But just in case any of you were working up to ‘Oh well, let’s give Stevie something resembling a break’, I direct you to news that McClaren was going to drop [...]

Mar

28

What’s up, Newsnow?

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No doubt many of you know about Newsnow, a site that aggregates news stories by category. So, if you were a fan of Chelsea you can go to their Chelsea newsfeed and see all the latest stories about your club.
Since Left Back began last October I have been trying to get the site added to [...]

Mar

28

Nothing will change for England tonight

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Even a team as goalshy and out of form as England wil stick at least 5 or 6 past Andorra tonight. That’ll probably mean a reprieve for Steve McClaren and England’s woes will continue the next time they play anybody half decent.
Fact is England replaced Sven with Svenlite, a man whose talents amounted to keeping [...]

Mar

28

Moritz Volz: not a tosser

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In a pretty good interview with Guardian Unlimited’s Small Talk, Fulham defender Moritz Volz discusses a wide range of topics and, unlike so many pro athletes whose sub-articulate assholery we are forced to endure, manages to come across as a pretty cool guy.  He even takes the mick out of himself for the whole German-and-loving-David-Hasselhoff thing.
Oh, and [...]

Mar

27

Arsenal and Chelsea fined £100,000

Filed Under Carling Cup, The FA | 3 Comments

In a statement today the FA have fined both Arsenal and Chelsea £100,000 for the Carling Cup handbags. It does seem a little harsh though. Compare it to the following:
Tottenham Hotspur FC
Tottenham Hotspur FC v Middlesbrough FC
FA Premier League, 5 December 2006
Denied breach of FA Rule E20(a) – failing to ensure that its players conducted [...]

Mar

27

McClaren is mental

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Someone who has watched a lot of international football called me and said it was as good a display of football as they had seen over the entire weekend - McLaren at a press conference yesterday.

Who knew Stevie Wonder had a direct line to the England manager?

Mar

26

Spot the lie

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Given Steven Staunton’s previous performance as Ireland manager which of these Lee Carsley quotes rings most true for you?
Moments after the Wales game Carlsley was asked about the way the team was set up and what instructions they were given. He said:
He just named the team, and didn’t really go through any roles to be [...]

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