Chris Wright
Chris Wright (b.1984 -) Regular contributor for Soccerlens and news editor over on Who Ate All The Pies. Lifelong Nottingham Forest fan, so therefore I have no idea what real football looks like.
Rooney Misses His First Chance To Apologise
After the exercise in tabloid-evasion that saw him carted around the world for the majority of the last month or so, Manchester United’s wayward striker Wayne Rooney returned to the first-team fold last weekend – entering the Old Trafford fray as a second-half substitute during their 2-0 Premier League victory over Wigan on Saturday afternoon….
‘All The Fish Are Sold’: Spain Claim Seven World Cup Votes
In a turn of phrase more befitting an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E than an interview regarding the upcoming World Cup 2018 voting ceremony in Zurich, the chief executive of the Spain/Portgual bid, Miguel Angel Lopez, has claimed that ‘all the fish are sold’ and that the Iberian campaign may have already (theoretically) garnered…
The ‘Bit Between The Ears’ Is Still Arsenal’s Biggest Weakness
Over the last five-and-a-bit fallow seasons, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has seen his band of nimble tyros surrender one and two-goal leads on no less than 34 occasions – with the most recent example being last Saturday’s second-half capitulation against North London rivals Tottenham. Furthermore, whereas Arsenal’s propensity for snatching defeat (or a draw) from…
Arsenal Set To Breach The ‘£100 Ticket’ Mark
There were a time when, in football’s glorious sepia-hued yesteryear, a cloth-capped father could take his apple-cheeked lad to the football on a Sat’dy afters, stop for a pack of 10 Benson’s from the kiosk in t’market square on the way to the ground, ay’ a meat pie and a foamy nut-brown stout at half-time,…
If Ancelotti Isn’t In Control At Chelsea, Just Who Is?
As Sunday afternoon slowly leeched away into Sunday evening, Chelsea suddenly found themselves prompted into quickly quashing the growing rumours that a minor dip in his side’s form and a recent, supposedly critical, undermining of his administrative authority had left manager Carlo Ancelotti dallying over his position at the club. Ten days ago, an apparently…
Are Man City Doomed To Fail Under Roberto Mancini?
With Manchester City currently ‘wallowing’ down in fourth place after only 13 Premier League games, the fact that manager Roberto Mancini has been having to justify his position for the past weeks is fairly ludicrous – yet equally indicative of the anabolic swell that the club’s pretensions have undergone during the past couple of years….
FIFA Complain Of ‘Sensationalism’ After Banning Six Crooked Members
FIFA’s paradoxically named Ethics committee have admitted that football’s governing body have suffered ‘very great damage’ as a result of the corruption scandal that has engulfed the entire organisation after the Sunday Times went public with the results of their covert investigation into collusion between the bidders for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The…
Is The FA’s New ‘Centre Of Excellence’ A Decade Too Late?
Nearly ten fallow years have passed since the Football Association (FA) purchased 300-odd acres of rural Staffordshire in 2001 with the ‘express’ intent of developing a footballing ‘centre of excellence’ in the heart of England, akin to the elite Clairefontaine academy that has proved to be such a valuable asset to the French national team…
Liverpool Fume Over Gerrard Injury: Time To Write Off 2010/11?
I’m not prepared to risk aneurysm by going into too much detail about England’s rudderless outing against the French last night, but it’s fairly safe to assume that there was one salient development that caught most Liverpool fans collective attention – and you can pretty much rest assured that it wasn’t the steady, assured performance…
Tottenham Olympic Stadium Plan Branded ‘Unacceptable’
Tottenham and AEG’s joint proposal to take over the Olympic Park Stadium as and when the Olympic bandwagon rolls out of town in the Autumn of 2012 has suffered a potentially devastating setback after being branded as ‘completely unacceptable’ by UK Athletics (UKA) chairman Ed Warner. Premier League rivals Spurs (with the backing of AEG)…
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