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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 […]
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31 December 2007
Success: The False Virtue
Today Emil Dantchev, the agent of the wondrous Dimitar Berbatov announced that his client wants to leave Tottenham Hotspur. The reason? He will be 27 next month and wants to fulfil his potential and win trophies now.
Time is running out for him to play for a club that can match his ambition.
I would […]
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26 December 2007
De rigueur: The Two-Footed Tackle
A month ago, the Premiership saw nothing but clean, precise sliding tackes that stole the ball seemingly unbeknownst from its erstwhile owner. Today it seems that the most heinous of all tacking crimes - the two-footed tackle - is all the modern player is capable of. Or so the media would have you think.
In reality […]
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19 December 2007
Sol Campbell’s Bleeding Heart
Through a torrent of frustrated platitudes that constitute the vocabulary of the modern footballer, Sol Campbell appears to have made public how the Tottenham fans have finally made him crack.
Portsmouth’s former Tottenham, former Arsenal and still England, centreback phoned the BBC to complain about fans complaining about him (under the guise of abuse of all […]
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27 November 2007
Shearer and The England Job [PIC]
I read in the Telegraph that Alan Shearer is “The People’s Choice” for the next England manager.
He is not. He may be some people’s choice but they are not the sort of people who should be allowed to make such decisions. Even Marco van Basten who has not exactly shone for the Dutch […]
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26 November 2007
The Next England Manager
Though the decision may take a while and some have supposedly ruled themselves out, here is this sites analysis of all the major contenders, discussing their attributes and how they might fair with the biggest, richest and most poisoned of all chalices.
The new coach is going to have to be a lot of things; a […]
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22 November 2007
The England Blame Game
Thank goodness for Geoff Thompson. Were it not for him we might never have addressed the pressing root and branch problem that is so clearly blighting the England team. My only fear is that while the professional footballing tree is being nursed back to health, who is thinking about the grass roots of […]
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21 November 2007
England 2 - 3 Croatia; Ratings
Player and manager ratings for the England - Croatia match.
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20 November 2007
England versus Croatia: Preview
Tomorrow night, Wembley will see the completion of the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign with England needing only a draw against Croatia to advance to the main tournament.
Algebraically this is not the most onerous of tasks yet it is one that reeks of danger but not because of the the opposition nor the loss to injury […]
