Cwoff.com: Sporting Editorials Archives: July 2007
next page ·
previous page
19 July 2007
Winging Their Way to the Premiership
Much has been said about the differences in teams style and tactics and their effectiveness on the pitch. The traditional 4-4-2 normally consists of a flat back four, a holding midfielder an attacking midfielder, two wide players and two up front. In recent years this has been modified and adapted to include “pacey / overlapping” […]
continue reading... » 2 Comments
18 July 2007
Mourinho and Abramovich are Friends Again
If you spend close to half a billion pounds on a football team, would you want to watch Arsenal or a Super-Bolton?
continue reading... » 3 Comments
17 July 2007
Big Four Eye The Big Prize
…and it is not quite what you think.
Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger and Rafa Benitez will all for differing reasons and varying levels of self-delusion claim to be fighting for two main prizes this season; the Premiership and the Champions League. Privately, some if not all will be content with good showings […]
continue reading... » 2 Comments
16 July 2007
The Top 10 Greatest Great Goalscorers
…in Premiership history.
The idea is simple; name the 10 greatest scorers of great goals. So not great goalscorers (though some are definitely that) or people who happened to score a great goal (though they definitely did that), but players who regularly scored great goals.
However it is not as easy as it sounds and some […]
continue reading... » 0 Comments
15 July 2007
Brazil wins Copa America
In a triumph of defensive organisation over attacking intent and flair, Brazil won the Copa America tonight 3-0 versus arch-enemy and serial under-achievers Argentina in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
continue reading... » 2 Comments
14 July 2007
David Beckham, Last Stop: LA
It is not easy to judge how history will view David Beckham. The most prominent themes when summing him up though are likely to be be how his fame far outshone his talent, how his talent was misinterpreted and underrated, how he changed how we view footballers and how footballers view themselves, and perhaps, […]
continue reading... » 0 Comments
13 July 2007
Here Comes Kroenke
Nobody at Arsenal thought Stan Kroenke would go away and sure enough, he hasn’t.
Having bought ITV’s stake in the club his holding now stands as 12.19% and following face to face meetings with some of the board, they announced that “I hope we will be able to work with him in the future just as we would with any interested people.”
continue reading... » 3 Comments
12 July 2007
While Carragher Considers, England Ails
Part of me does have genuine sympathy for Jamie Carragher and the plight of his international career.
A top Premiership and Champions League defender with power, heading, good anticipation, reading and excellent defensive leadership, he is arguably as responsible for Liverpool’s continual appearance in the Champions League as Steven Gerrard.
continue reading... » 3 Comments
12 July 2007
All Hail the Goalscoring Midfielder
Football styles tend to go in phases. Normally it seems to be a couple of years behind the most successful club of a given era which dictating the assumed successful style of the time. Often this is expressed as the ebb and flow of attacking versus defensive football. Right now, World Cup […]
continue reading... » 0 Comments
11 July 2007
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Craig Bellamy?
Simple; sell him. At least that has been the solution of six managers so far. What is incredible is that £31m has been spent on a player who falls out so easily with his managers and move on so quickly that he makes Carlos Tevez look like he’s at Upton Park for the […]
