TEDIOUS LONG BALL MANAGER QUITS FRENCH CLUB As a manager who has won three French titles, three French Super Cups, two English League Cups, the English FA Cup, the Charity Shield, the UEFA Cup, the European Super Cup, the Subbuteo Challenge (Merseyside regional finals) and A Hastily Arranged Five-a-Side In The Local Park Of Which […]
CAN YOU EAT THREE? OR WAS THAT SHREDDED WHEAT? When Steven Gerrard sits down for breakfast in the Liverpool canteen next season and finds three Weetabix there rather than a pop tart, he can look no further than new owner, Tom Hicks. Defending the manner in which he funded his purchase of the club by […]
BRYAN AND BRIAN If you thought the 32nd edition of “The Standard Catalog of World Coins” at 2288 pages was a pretty thick book, it’s only because the media haven’t uncovered the huge photographic scrapbook Bryan Robson must own of football chairmen in compromising situations. Despite relegating Middlesbrough, Bradford and West Brom in his illustrious […]
IT’S OWEN HARGREAVES, NOT JIMMY GREAVES Manchester United’s highly perceptive fans are renowned the world over for their accurate football analysis. They have spent much of the last few years rightly denouncing their over-the-hill Premiership-winning manager, writing the club’s eptiaph after the Glazer takeover and correctly predicted that United would win nothing with the likes […]
LAWRIE, LAWRIE LAUGHS Hugo must be squirming in his Mexican recliner. After turning Northern Ireland from the international football equivalent of The Mighty Ducks in to a giant-killing, group-topping, Ian Paisley-taming outfit, Lawrie Sanchez has decided to take the chance to manage in the Premiership with Fulham. Considering that his four games so far have […]
Blacksburg The horror perpetrated at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA on Monday morning is beyond the comprehension of someone like me. Thirty two people were killed at the hands of Cho Seung-Hui, yet another of America’s outcast underbelly. I’m not going to traipse over the details as I’m sure, unless you’ve been avoiding the story, […]
After my last unsuccessful foray in to blogging about football I think I’m playing with fire once again by discussing metal music. But I beg your indulgence for just a minute or two. In 1994 Megadeth released the track “A Tout Le Monde” from their album, “Youthanasia”. While Megadeth are one of the “big four” […]
Saddam Hussein is dead. Kind of weird isn’t it? Iran-Iraq war When I was about 7 or 8 years of age his name was on every newscast, accompanying rather violent pictures from the Iran-Iraq war. Despite Hussein’s use of chemical weapons and his human rights abuses, actor Ronald Reagan sent senile Donald Rumsfeld over to […]
Apologies non-football fans – it’s a football blog! False dawns at Tottenham are as common as the half time pastie. After occupying fourth-place for half of last season and eventually finishing fifth due to a last-day defeat at West Ham, Spurs were expected to build on that and challenge the top four this year. But […]
My (sometime) annual indulgence Ok so I missed out doing this last year due to laziness issues. Maybe I was bored by the whole Chelsea circus which turned the Premiership in to a Hollywood remake of a superior Japanese movie where everyone knew the ending. But perhaps this season is going to be a little […]
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