Apr

30

Sammy Lee just too damn small

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Sammy Lee may be full of self-confidence and rightly proud of his appointment as manager of Bolton but experts warn that the former Liverpool player is ’simply too small’ to be a success.
In the illustration below you can see Lee side by side with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. That picture is exactly to scale.

Previously bolstered [...]

Apr

30

Roy Keane - manager of the year

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No, really. What an impact he’s had at Sunderland. He arrived with them bottom of the league having lost five of their first six games under the temporary charge of Niall Quinn.
Yesterday they achieved automatic promotion. Amazing. Some modern managers believe in treating their players like adults, like them to learn from their own mistakes, [...]

Apr

30

Dennis Wise - manager of the year

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Some people might hark on about Peter Ridsdale and the house of cards he built at Elland Road but I think it would be unfair to deny Wise the credit he deserves.
He’s taken a team that made the playoffs last season to relegation. Quite an achievement. Along the way he seems to have made enemies [...]

Apr

29

Allardyce resigns as Bolton manager

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It begs the question though, with Bolton in the top 6 who does he want to manage that’s any better?

Apr

28

Are Upson/Neill refundable under warranty?

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A few minutes into the biggest game of West Ham’s season, and this happens:
1506: West Ham defender Lucas Neill is struggling with an injury. He’s carrying on for now but it looks unlikely he will continue.

On top of this, that’s pretty amazing.
If you don’t know whether to laugh or cry, the answer is: laugh.

Apr

26

Left Back’s Premiership team of the season

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Further to KeepyUppy’s team of the season I thought I’d weigh in with mine. So here we go:
Keeper: Paddy Kenny - It was a close run thing with Paul Robinson’s fresh air kicks and general fatness but Kenny’s fatness, baldness and the fact that one of his friends bit his eyebrow off sealed the day [...]

Apr

26

BREAKING: Apparently, Posh might have a bit of an attitude problem

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While this isn’t directly about football, the only reason we’re forced to endure the blip that is Victoria Beckham on our pop culture radar is thanks to David Beckham, so I’m giving myself a break here and just running with this.

Since most of you probably read, you know, books and actual news stuff, you might [...]

Apr

26

The real Team of the Season

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When I was little, being voted into the PFA Team of the Year had a little more to do with “merit” and a little less to do with “playing for Man U”. Surely an oustanding performer keeping his team in the Premiership is to be praised as much as a player having an average season [...]

Apr

25

Mourinho get some love from wrestling fans

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“Daddy, why does everyone hate you?”

Apr

25

We all must face the judgement of history

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Boris Yeltsin’s death has been big news this week, and its subsequent coverage reminds us all that this was a man instrumental in dragging a nation out from under the yoke of a despotic, genocidal regime driven by a soulless ideology that condemned its people to lives of Medieval-era misery.  So, good work there, sir.
Unfortunately, that means [...]

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