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Spain’s era of dominance may have only just begun

Always the perennial underachievers, the last few years have seen that theory put to bed.  Though the senior team went out in the second round in the 2006 world cup, their previous group performances were electric and a sign of things to come, only hiccuping when faced with a certain purple patch conjured by the…

2010/2011 Championship Playoffs Prediction: Cardiff, Forest, Reading or Swansea?

In the last several years of the Championship, there has been a trend developing that I’m surprised has not been made a big deal of.  Since the end of the 2005/2006 season, it has been the most unlikely team (in terms of recent history) who have gone up on the final day.  Not just in…

Where do Birmingham City go from here?

Alex McLeish has set the foundations now to build something special at Birmingham City. In two years he has set his side up to comfortably survive in the Premier League, to such an extent that the clubs current status in and around the relegation zone has made them look more unflattering than their performances deserve….

The best festival of the summer is on the horizon

My boys aren’t in it, but my enthusiasm could never dampen

Don’t believe the hype

With this new job of mine I rarely get the time to write anything up here, and its quite unfortunate cause I was really starting to enjoy spouting my opinions on things while I sat on the underrated dole queue. I’d actually love to do this kind of stuff for a living (fantasy land….) so…

Could Wayne Rooney surpass Ronaldo’s 42?

Goal Machine As of right now Wayne Rooney already has 27 goals in all competitions, with 10 league games, a cup final and a possible few games in European competition to add to his tally, which I’m sure he will. In fact he is on course to add significantly to his numbers for the season,…

The Premier League – The TV Series

Oh what a season its been! It’s been so full of twists and turns that you just don’t know whats going to happen next.  Scandal, despair, scandal, glory, scandal, great quotes and yet more scandal. Sorry Portsmouth I was just reading about Portsmouths latest debacle (I’ll let you ponder what today’s big issue is) and…

Football Goes Crazy

Stamford Bridge 3.00 pm – Everton go to league Leaders Chelsea where the home team have only conceded 1 league goal all season. Stamford Bridge 4.50 pm – Everton and Chelsea take place in a heartstopping 3-3 draw, which puts it up there in the matches-of-the-season category. Then why are the boos so deafening? I…

So has football lost its soul?

What an emotional, mentally draining week its been.  Monsieur Henry’s handball has been talked to death at this stage, im sure some people will be rolling their eyes at another article over this much talked about topic, but I haven’t given my two cents yet and I’ve got some things to get off my chest….

Don’t write them off; Barcelona are still the best in Europe

What a shocking couple of weeks it had been for the Catalans. They have torn through all and sundry in La Liga up until their hosting of Almeria at the Camp Nou on October 4th.  They may have come away with the result but it’s a sign of the times that ONLY a 1-0 win…