The waiting is done & dusted, today is the day. Wallchart is on the fridge, the previews in the official handbook, World Soccer & When Saturday Comes plus the excellent BBC on-line information have been read & digested. I really hope the hype is turned into reality and we have a feast of football, the hosts […]
This country may have passed you bye in all the hype surrounding WC14, since joining UEFA in May 2013 a tiny British territory have played five full internationals, their record is W1 D2 L2 F3 A7. Their first victory game against Malta 1-0 was at Faro in Portugal, they will have to play all their “home” matches abroad […]
Soon to be at Stamford Bridge, ex-Atlético Madrid’s centre forward Diego Costa who is a La Liga winner but a Champions League runner-up now has a bigger fish to fry. It is virtually unknown for a top-flight Brazilian to snub his homeland and opt for a rival nation as he did in September last year. […]
Usually driven by the Southern based media, the North South divide is not just an English phenomena as on the over side of the globe a certain country who will be hosting one helluva footballing carnival has just that soccer situation. Brazil’s southern cities of Rio & San Paulo and to lesser extent Porto Alegre are the mainstay of club […]
The worst ever football stadium disaster, the BBC have done a short video with the brief outline of what went on, it is just a very small insight to what happened, however folk were actually shot dead outside the stadium. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27635664 The whole tragedy was covered up by the Peruvian authorities, as governments do, especially the shooting. “Some lads […]
First apologies for the lateness of the posting but I put the wrong draft date on and it never appeared when it should have. Many words especially with the daily newspapers over in Spain have been written about this eagerly awaited clash so a full preview really isn’t necessary at this late stage. The Los Colchoneros (The Mattressers) are rated […]
How a Super League from England & Scotland might look, taken from ye olde football annual/magazine from a few years ago. It is as daft now as it was then, however I do like it how Edinburgh & Sheffield are now a combination of their respective clubs and how they merged their kits to suit […]
Now for the “genuine” Gunners fans I’m happy for ’em, no really I am, winning The FA Cup is a wonderful achievement in every-way. The oldest cup competition in the world, starting in August of the previous year a festival of football were the lowly teams including non-league clubs do have their day in the sun. […]
The article below first appeared in STAND magazine and Mudhutter and is in the news again concerning the loan market and stockpiling of young players by top clubs. It offers an alternative solution to the one Greg Dyke is proposing: namely that no football club is allowed to have more than 25 professional players and […]
Michael Jackson has a lot to answer for, well his namesake & that statue does. Fulham have been relegated from The Premier League when the infamous, Marmite syndrome “love it or hate it” statue was removed from the homely Craven Cottage. It now resides in city centre Manchester at the wonderful National Football Museum. While […]