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.
Is Liverpool’s Over-Reliance On Fernando Torres Crippling Him?
Before we get started I’d just like to get my disclaimer out of the way. This opinion piece is not a spurious personal attack on Liverpool Football Club and/or the many supporters thereof – it is a potted critique of one man, Fernando Torres, and the circumstances in which he currently finds himself, i.e. an…
We Ate All The Pies: How Football Swallowed Britain Whole
Author John Nicholson has a problem – the kind of which, should it concern methamphetamine or alcohol, would probably have seen him forced to attend bi-weekly, court-ordered rehab sessions by now. It becomes quickly apparent whilst reading We Ate All The Pies that he is utterly, rabidly and cripplingly addicted to football along with all of it’s many facets and foibles.
RBS Attempt To Force Liverpool Owners To Sell Up
The Royal Bank of Scotland – who are Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett‘s current lenders – have put an October 6th deadline in place, by which time they expect the American pair to fully repay outstanding loans that totaled somewhere around the £285 million mark at the last count. The deadline means that…
Dire World Cup Leads FIFA To Re-Consider ‘Golden Goal’ Rule
On Saturday 28th February 2004, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) chose to abolish the ‘golden goal’ rule – six years after it was first utilised during a World Cup tournament in 1998 – as a means of deciding knock-out phase matches. The ‘golden goal‘ rule (or the less heart-breaking ‘silver goal‘ rule, as it…
Adam Johnson Deserves To Be More Than Just A ‘Super Sub’
After netting his second international goal in the space of four days, England’s greenhorn winger Adam Johnson is – for all the right reasons – attracting considerable attention, thus helping to drag the nation’s spotlight away from his more ‘scandal-mired’ cohorts. The 23-year-old replaced the injured Theo Walcott (who rolled an ankle in the build…
What’s Wrong With Wayne Rooney, And Why Should We Care?
For a man who has built a career on an ability to stand out from his English footballing contemporaries by displaying not just a puff-chested, thick-necked grunt work-rate but also a consistent predilection for oft-competent touch and technique, the Wayne Rooney we’ve been forced to endure over the past few months (the Bulgaria game apart)…
Investigators Reveal ‘Massive’ World Cup Data Breach
It should come as no surprise to any football fan with even a passing contempt for the game’s governing body that FIFA have yet again dropped a sizeable bollock, a bollock that stands a very good chance of ruining many innocent supporters’ lives. News has broken this morning that a database containing the personal details…
England 4-0 Bulgaria: The Player Ratings
England relieved some of the pressure that had been mounting on their besieged manager Fabio Capello by getting their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign underway with a convincing victory, registering an emphatic win over Group G rivals Bulgaria at Wembley last night. On paper at least, Bulgaria represent one the biggest potential stumbling blocks in England’s…
Is Fabio Capello A God Or A Monster?
“You created a God, and you created a monster!” may sound like something a distraught, sunburnt Charlton Heston might scream at a laboratory full of inquisitive apes, but alas, the above is not a paraphrase from the script of a piece of late-1960′s dystopian cinema, but a direct quote from the England manager himself, Fabio…
Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s Parting Shot Leaves A Bitter Aftertaste
There are a myriad of ways you could describe AC Milan’s much-travelled show-pony Zlatan Ibrahimovic (lolloping gobshite, work-shy flake, disruptive semi-megalomaniac, self-important tossweed) but ‘likeable’ or even ‘affable’ probably wouldn’t be the kind of characteristics that would be on the tip of your tongue if you were asked to outwardly assess his personality. His talent…
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