Jan

31

No Room For Emotion

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The news of Beckham’s exclusion from the Engerland squad (not a shock to many) for a friendly shows Capello is serious about the job; it would have been easy to bow down to the media and the populace. The biggest problem has to be his fitness; his Engerland performances have not been outstanding, but then [...]

Jan

31

Liverpool lose another easy game

Filed Under Champions League, Idiots, Managers, Premiership | 8 Comments

Rafa Benitez thinks that winning the Champions League is harder than winning the Premiership:

How many teams have won the Champions League? That is a massive trophy and it is more difficult to win than any other trophy.

If that’s the case, why the f*** do Liverpool keep losing Premiership games?

Jan

30

Too many chiefs at Newcastle?

Filed Under Chairmen, Managers, Premiership | 4 Comments

Kevin Keegan is back as manager, there’s still no sign of a number 2 but you get the feeling Keegan would do well to get a serious tactician on board. If there were a 2000s version of Don Howe then that’s exactly what they need.
But then Dennis Wise has come in as an ‘executive director’ [...]

Jan

28

FA Cup review

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‘The magic of the cup’ is as much a football cliché as ’sick as a parrot’ or ‘it’s a game of two halves’, but it holds true in some cases.
Havant and Waterlooville had the day of their lives against Liverpool, taking the lead twice before the Premier League team’s extra class showed through. That they [...]

Jan

26

Question

Filed Under La liga, Premiership, Transfers, funny | 3 Comments

You are Carlos Puyol. You are a Catalan boy now captain of that great symbol of Catalunya, FC Barcelona.
You have won league titles, the Champions League, you play with such great players as Thuram, Zambrotta, Ronaldinho, Henry, Eto’o, Deco, Xavi and Messi, plus incredible youngsters like Dos Santos and Bojan. Your team, the one that [...]

Jan

24

Perspective Please.

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The well-publicised “spat” between Nicklas Bendtner and Emmanuel Adebayor has had the media, in particular Sky and the Daily Mail creaming their jeans with airtime and column inches calling for justice.
Looking at the incident, I can’t see a comparison to Le Saux and Batty’s European scrap while at Blackburn or even Lee Bowyer and [...]

Jan

22

A Few Cheap Laughs

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And I don’t just mean Titus Bramble’s defending. To celebrate the return of the King (cough) that is Keegan, here’s my top twenty seven (there’s too many to have a top ten) of his collected ramblings. I think this what they mean when they say “He’s got a good football brain”, i.e. it’s made of [...]

Jan

22

Is Gerrard just making excuses?

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Speaking about Liverpool’s failure to perform against Villa last night, scrambling a 2-2 draw in the end, the Liverpool captain seemed eager to point the finger of blame at the two American owners, saying:
It’s not just this week, it’s been going on for some time and it’s certainly not helping the players. I’ve got to [...]

Jan

22

They should just shut up

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Manchester City’s pleas for Manchester United to mark the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster with a minute’s applause instead of a minute’s silence are a sad indictment of the game right now.
It’s typical that the anniversary should throw up a fixture between the two Manchester clubs but if the City fans can’t hate [...]

Jan

18

*tap tap*

Filed Under Managers, Premiership, The site | 2 Comments

Is this thing on? I SAID IS THIS THING ON?
Sorry for the lack of updates, dear reader(s), but fear not. We shall be back with our regular dose of irregular football nonsense starting now.
Kevin Keegan at Newcastle. I think it’s fantastic and I can understand why the fans are so happy. Despite not winning any [...]

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