Mar

7

Tougher penalties, not criminal charges

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Has Sepp Blatter ever come up with a good idea? Maybe I don’t know enough about the inner workings of FIFA, but I get the impression that Blatter is a bit of an idiot.
His latest idea may not be as ridiculous as his plan to force women footballers to play in skimpy clothing, but it’s [...]

Feb

25

Weekend thoughts - Arsenal, Eduardo and more

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Obviously the Eduardo incident is the one that most of the headlines have been generated about. Some thoughts in bullet point form.

I don’t think Taylor tried to break his leg, I do think Taylor tried ‘let him know he was there’. Both Taylor and Eduardo were unlucky.
Any player, manager or pundit who tries to say [...]

Feb

25

“Oooh, yes that does look a bit sore actually…”

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The thought suddenly struck me a few years ago that about a third of Arsenal’s goals come from offside positions. Not wishing to be the tit in the room pointing out that the actor’s voice is less than perfectly synched in with his mouth movements, I kept this to myself and endured a tough [...]

Oct

17

It’s not the pitch

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I love the way this morning’s tabloids have blamed the artificial pitch in Russia for John Terry’s injury. You’d swear these pitches were cement painted to look like grass or something.
I play on one every week and they’re brilliant. You can slide and not rip all your skin off, they’re bouncy and not hard on [...]

Oct

11

Would it be wrong…

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…to enjoy Michael Owen ripping a hamstring in two while playing for England?

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

5

Can of worms

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Steven Gerrard is struggling with a toe injury. England want to give him a pain killing injection so he can play in the Euro qualifiers.
Now, if I was Liverpool Football Club I’d recall Gerrard immediately and if the FA refused I would line up legal action should Gerrard miss games for his club because of [...]

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

12

Are Wayne Rooney’s feet made of glass?

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No, despite his new injury, I can confirm his feet are not made of glass. They are, in fact, made from fine bone china.

Aug

8

I know it’s wrong…

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…but it’s really hard not to laugh at Lucas Neill being out yet again with an injury for West Ham. Since they decided to pay him £60,000 a week he’s been more or less constantly crocked.
Still, he’s no Matthew Upson who’s set to miss 6 months of the season after rupturing his anterior thumbnail hanging [...]

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