Sep

28

Seriously, Arsène: WTF?

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You have to trust your judgement knowing you will make mistakes. I always say you have to be relaxed about that and smiling knowing that you have a bomb in the right hand and a hand grenade in your left and that it can explode in your face because you were wrong.
Arsène Wenger

Is this the [...]

Sep

26

Michael Owen is lucky he’s not a horse

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He’d have been put out to stud or to graze or whatever it is they do to old horses that are slow and useless.
They shoot some of them, don’t they?

Sep

25

Graeme le Saux is not gay…

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…but that didn’t stop the chants. Interesting point of view from le Saux himself over a rumour that became ‘fact’ like that Marc Almond story.

Sep

25

Terry thinks he’s above the law

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Who ate all the pies makes a good point about John Terry’s behaviour in the United v Chelsea match.
In times past we have criticised teams like Man United and players like Roy Keane for their aggressive approach to referees. Remember Keane’s vein bulging as he screamed at Andy D’Urso? However, they are nothing to Terry [...]

Sep

24

Mike Dean - Red card machine

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I was watching the United - Chelsea game yesterday hoping for a good game of football, some goals, some fights, some aggro. Unfortunately Mike Dean ensured the contest was over on the half hour when he red carded Jon Obi Mikel for a challenge on Patrice Evra.
A yellow card was as much as it merited [...]

Sep

20

Adios, Jose

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I suppose you’d have gotten long odds at the start of the season for Jose Mourinho to be the first Premier League manager to lose his job. It’s all a bit ant-climactic now that it has happened though.
We know the relationship between the manager and Abramovich has been non-existent for quite some time now and [...]

Sep

19

Pennant is dense but he didn’t cost Liverpool

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On a yellow card playing against a team with a reputation for making the most out of any contact you’d think a player with as much experience as Pennant would know to stay on his feet. His silly tackle and the subsequent acting from the Porto player ensured Liverpool finished the game with 10 men.
I’m [...]

Sep

19

Peter Kenyon on Chelsea

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On being the biggest club in London:
“You know, there’s 13 different teams in London, top-quality football teams. We’ve decided that we want to be London’s team.”
On plans to be the biggest club in the world by 2014:
“We carry out independent research now on fanbases and relativity of Real Madrid versus Manchester United versus Milan versus [...]

Sep

17

Thoughts on the Premiership weekend

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The North London derby was a cracking game for Arsenal fans and neutrals but Spurs fans won’t be happy. Profligate strikers and poor defence cost them again. Darren Bent for £16.5m? Got to be the turkey deal of the summer. Not that he won’t score but when you pay that much money for a striker [...]

Sep

13

Pinch Me, I’m Dreaming

Filed Under Football, International, Scottish | 3 Comments

I still can’t believe it. France 0, Scotland 1.
Arsene Wenger once said:
The act of playing for a team makes each individual stronger.
Here we see that in practice; France, with their multi-talented squad, World Cup winners, European Champions, Champions League Winners up against the relative minnows of Scotland, who weather a VERY heavy storm and [...]

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