Wenger Woes Arsenal have come away from this Barclays Premier League weekend 5 points adrift of the crucial fourth Champions League place. Defeat to bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane yesterday left the Gunners trailing their North London neighbours by 7 points as Tottenham moved to third just 2 points adrift of [...]
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MONDAY COLUMN: 4th March 2013
Posted in Football Monday Column Opinion | Tags: Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Champions League, Football, Jose Mourinho, Man Utd, Rafael Benitez
CONGRATULATIONS SWANSEA, WELL DONE BRADFORD AND WHEN DID COMMON SENSE GO OUT OF REFEREEING?
Bradford against Swansea was the cup final of dreams. Two clubs who were not expected to make the final of the Capital One Cup but fought against the odds to meet at Wembley. Swansea, having climbed the ladder of the football league to establish themselves as a quality Premier League outfit, turned up at [...]
Posted in Football Opinion Pick of the Week | Tags: Bradford, Capital One Cup, De Guzman, Dyer, Football, Michael Laudrup, Michu, Swansea
WHY WENGER MUST NOT BE PUSHED – HE MUST JUMP
Defeat against Blackburn in the FA Cup all but confirmed that Arsenal would go without a trophy for the eighth year in succession. This was a crushing cup upset for the Gunners who followed that with a comprehensive home defeat against Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Naturally all focus has been placed firmly on [...]
Posted in Football Opinion Pick of the Week | Tags: Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Bayern Munich, Champions League, FA Cup, Premier League
SELBY IS MASTER ONCE MORE
Mark Selby followed up his UK Open triumph with his third Masters Title to go within one of completing snookers ‘triple crown.’ The “Jester from Leicester” beat Austalia’s Neil Robertson in a high quality final in front of a packed Alexandra Palace Crowd. Selby had struggled en route to the final, needing a thrilling [...]
ARE NEWCASTLE GETTING IT RIGHT WITH THEIR FRENCH REVOLUTION?
“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” “We have had success with French players before so lets go there again.” This would appear to be the attitude taken by Newcastle United in this transfer window. They have got so many French players now they’ll have to start serving croissants and crepes on the terraces. But [...]
Posted in Football Pick of the Week | Tags: Alan Pardew, Arsenal, Demba Ba, Football, Mike Ashley, Newcastle United
ADKINS SACKING AGAIN SHOWS HOW CLUELESS CLUB OWNERS REALLY ARE
Back to back promotions and just two defeats in twelve Premier League games. Yet Southampton have taken the extraordinary decision to sack Nigel Adkins and just as bizarrely appoint the unproven Mauricio Pochettino. Chairman Nicola Corteze said that Southampton needed to change manager in order to achieve their long-term ambitions. I wonder if he [...]
Posted in Football Pick of the Week | Tags: Chelsea, Football, Nicola Corteze, Nigel Adkins, Rafael Benitez, Roberto Di Matteo, Roman Abramovich, Southampton
GUARDIOLA MAKES A SHREWD MOVE – BUT IS IT AS A RESULT OF A FERGIE PEP TALK?
Bayern Munich stunned the football world by announcing that Pep Guardiola would become their new manager in the summer. The Spaniard has chosen to end his sabbatical and take the helm at the Allianz, in a snub to the likes of Chelsea who were so desperate for his services. The big question however is [...]
Posted in Football Pick of the Week | Tags: Chelsea, Football, Jose Mourinho, Man Utd, Manchester City, Pep Guardiola, Rafael Benitez
WHY IS THE STANDARD OF ENGLISH REFEREEING SO FAR BEHIND EUROPE?
It seems increasingly as though we spend a large number of weekends discussing the referee rather than the football. So many times we are witnessing glaring mistakes by the men in charge that influence matches and change the results of key English League clashes. In contrast, when we watch Champions League football, more often [...]
NOT EMBARRASSED ROBERTO? YOU SHOULD BE
Defeat to an under strength Dortmund team was the final bitter blow in another dismal Champions League campaign for Manchester City. The Premier League Champions finished their group without a single win, taking just three points, the worst ever total from an English side in the Champions League. Yet when asked, Roberto Mancini claimed [...]
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FORGET THE AUSSIES, THESE ARE THE BIG BOYS
The Ashes are labelled as the pinnacle of cricket for England players and fans alike. And for the last few decades they have been. England have been inferior to the mighty Aussies and so the challenge has always been to top the old rivals. Since 2005, England have launched an attack on the Australian supremacy [...]
Posted in Pick of the Week | Tags: Dale Steyn, England cricket, James Anderson, South Africa, Test Match
