Feb

22

Gazza sectioned

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Apparently Paul Gascoigne answered the door to police naked with the word ‘mad’ scrawled on his forehead. He’s also been eating day old raw liver and talking to mechanical parrots.
I assume it’s only a matter of time before we get a new reality show ‘At home with Gazza’, or ‘In Gazza’s padded cell’.

Feb

21

Richard Keys is an idiot - part 357

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After watching Emmanuel Eboue take a theatrical flop in the penalty box against Milan last night, Richard Keys tried to stoke up his usual post-match controversy by insisting it could have been a penalty. His reasoning for this - which he gave repeatedly - was that “there was contact”.
So what? There’s quite often contact between [...]

Oct

29

Why everything pundits say should be taken with a pinch of salt

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So-called ‘experts’ are paid to comment on the game. Alan Hansen says:
If I had been asked at the start of the season to nominate a team to drop out of the Premier League’s top four, I would have picked Arsenal. And Tottenham would have been my choice to replace them. Look what has happened to [...]

Oct

23

In support of 101 great goals

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If you don’t already know about 101 great goals it’s a fantastic website which provides links to football clips on YouTube and other video hosting sites.
For many fans it’s the only way they can see their teams in action. However, in this piece the gaffer over there expresses his concerns over the future of the [...]

Oct

18

What the Irish media think of Steve Staunton

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Forward to about 4 minutes in, listen to RTE presenter Bill O’Herlihy *nearly* say the word most Irish football fans associate with manager Steve Staunton.

Aug

28

Streaming football

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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

19

What is going on with Richard Keys?

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After the Liverpool v Chelsea game today the behaviour of Richard Keys on Sky Sports was very strange.
As Andy Gray lambasted referee Rob Styles for the shocking penalty award, Keys was determined to play down the ineptness of the official.
‘They’re only human, they make mistakes’, he said. There was some reference to the bosses ‘upstairs’ [...]

Aug

15

Frank Lampard TV

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It’s real, hard as it might be to believe, it’s real. Frank Lampard TV. Jesus.
Here’s the schedule.

Aug

11

New Match of the Day

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In the old days they’d have a couple of main matches then some brief highlights from the rest. Now they seem to be showing about 5 minutes highlights of each match.
Is that good? Was it just because it was opening day?
And where’s Gerald Sinstadt these days?

Aug

6

The major talking point of the Community Shield

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Forget the football, it’s Sky’s new graphics. Not only do we have grinning half-mannequins of the players as Andy Gray goes through the line-ups, we have the time and score in a new position. Look.

It says CH 1-1 MU, which means teams have been changed to two letters. Arsenal will be AR and Liverpool will [...]