Aug

31

The Future’s Not Bright If It’s Orange

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Yesterday’s announcement by David Dein that he has sold his shares in Arsenal for £75m is NOT good news for Arsenal, or the game in my (humble) opinion. I’m not going to go into specifics, but several aspects and a couple of quotes rang alarm bells for me.
First - another Russian with buckets of [...]

Aug

31

The New Premiership

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“Alisher Usmanov is not connected to [gas company] Gazprom, but to a subsidiary, Gazprominvest Holdings. Mr Usmanov’s skills as a financier are well known. He devises vehicles for handling our most difficult and sensitive financial transactions.”
I had known from my own intelligence sources while British Ambassador in Uzbekistan that Usmanov was in charge of Gazprom [...]

Aug

30

Booooo Platini

Filed Under Champions League, Idiots, UEFA | Leave a Comment

The idea of domestic cup winners being given entry to the Champions League is the latest bullshit idea to come from the curly bonce of Michel Platini. It’s amazing how such a great player can have become such a complete twat with no regard for the history and traditions of the game. Granted, the domestic [...]

Aug

29

Let’s stand up for the truth.

Filed Under Football, Media, Transfers | 3 Comments

There comes a point, where the fun is taken out of transfer speculation, and frankly, this summer it has been reached. When papers that sell by the million are prepared to employ ‘journalists’ that rely on blogs for their information and don’t bother to check any facts, as in the Palacio to Arsenal affair, and [...]

Aug

29

Ole, Ole Ole Ole

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While I am no Manchester United fan, I was a little disappointed to read of the enforced retirement of Ole Gunnar Solksjaer. This was a player who had an uncanny knack of scoring goals, especially from the bench – 126 goals in 366 appearances, including 11 goals last season when he was far from an [...]

Aug

29

The Invisible Man

Filed Under Football | 1 Comment

During the ITV commentary for the Liverpool game last night, the name “Harry Kewell” was mentioned. Apparently, he’s a Liverpool player.
Now, the name does ring a bell, but can anyone claim to have seen him?

Aug

28

Antonio Puerta passes away

Filed Under Sad | 7 Comments

How sad and sobering it all is. As fans we get so worked up with the little things, who didn’t chase a pass or track their man. This puts it right into perspective.
22 years of age, a baby on the way, a great career ahead of him, it’s just too sad.
Descansa en paz.

Aug

28

Streaming football

Filed Under TV | 8 Comments

It seems a backlash is about to begin against websites that provide links to streams of football games. Every weekend hundreds and thousands of people watch English, Spanish, Italian, German and French football via websites which offer links to the games.
Some software is needed but generally a reasonable quality picture can be found for pretty [...]

Aug

28

Drenthe making his mark in Spain already

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Royston Drenthe, new Real Madrid signing, is making his mark in Spain almost immediately. Not so much on the pitch but on the streets where he crashed his Audi into a police car, causing a minor injury to one of the coppers. Drenthe was breathalysed but there was no question of him being drunk.
Driving in [...]

Aug

28

Puerta still critical

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Spanish press report this morning that Antonio Puerta remains in critical condition in hospital. Doctors have also indicated that he has suffered some brain damage although the extent of it is not yet known.
Sevilla have set up an email address for anybody who wishes to send messages of support and goodwill.
puertaestamoscontigo@sevillafc.es

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