Cwoff.com: Sporting Editorials Archives: January 2008
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31 January 2008
The Premierships New owners
There was a time when investing in an English football team was about as appealing as the Lampard/Gerrard partnership. With the fragmentation of television rights, a spiralling global audience and a product that eschews (Spanish) style and (Italian) substance for a typically English white knuckle experience, the value of even a modest Premiership team […]
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23 January 2008
A Cup Giant Roars
To Dare is to Do.
Was there ever a motto more befitting the cup mentality? Last night, Tottenham embodied both their motto and their history with a performance of unrelenting, skilful endeavour. Against an Arsenal team that contained more first team players than was originally suggested, Spurs irresistibly swept aside a team that so many […]
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18 January 2008
RIP: The Art of Cup Football
There is no longer any doubt that the FA Cup currently represents a shadow of its former glory. Indeed the FA Cup is as much the World’s Greatest Domestic Cup Competition as the Champions League is a league contested by champions. Quite frankly, there is no World’s Great Domestic Cup Competition and similarly there is […]
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6 January 2008
The Fallacy of FA Cup Magic
This weekend was the third round of the oldest club competition of all; The FA Cup. 731 teams entered and while not all will expect to grace the final, many will have harboured dreams of a prize third round tie with a Premiership team.
However with 16 of the last 19 and 10 out of […]
