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It’s Time to End the Scourge of Referees for Good
We’ve all experienced it. You’re watching a Premier League game, taking in the glorious spectacle. Perhaps you’re supporting one of the teams, or perhaps your betting slip is. You’re in it to see the greatest players on the planet strut their stuff, and you’re starting to really enjoy it when BAM! Up steps the referee…
There are Known Knowns, there are Unknown Unknowns and there are New Signings
So, that was the mid-season transfer window that was. How was it for you? Frankly, it bored the arse off me. Time was when my first port of call on firing up the ol’ interwebs machine would be the transfer gossip columns, ever eager to GASP! at whatever some hapless hack had scraped off the…
The curious case of Masal Bugduv
On Monday, The Times published a list of ‘Football’s 50 rising stars’. Tucked away in the rundown was this: 30. Masal Bugduv (Olimpia Balti) Moldova’s finest, the 16-year-old attacker has been strongly linked with a move to Arsenal, work permit permitting. And he’s been linked with plenty of other top clubs as well.
Dear You, You suck. Signed, me.
Dear reader, It has been brought to my attention that you support a football club which is different to that which I support. The regrettable but necessary responsibility therefore falls upon me to inform you that your team sucks. Your team sucks so much that the area surrounding it is subject to many devastating hurricanes…
Maradona vs. Pele: the Hand of God vs. the Right Hand of God
Tonight, Diego Maradona makes his bow as Argentina manager as his new charges take on Scotland at Hampden Park. This momentous occasion gives us a wonderful chance to tackle one of football’s greatest debates, to wit: Who is the greatest footballer of all time – Maradona or Pelé? Since I’ve already definitively dealt with the…
Earning it: why patience is a virtue for football fans
As we sports fans know, the best drama is unscripted. (Of course, a lot of the worst drama is unscripted too, but bear with me.) The finale to the Formula One season proved this as Lewis Hamilton lost the World Championship on the penultimate lap and then won it again on the penultimate corner at…
A Modest Proposal for the Resolution of Club versus Country
“When the club versus country dispute arose Small children were trampled in the exodus…” So sang Half Man Half Biscuit in 2005. Little has changed since then as the greed and intransigence of football’s powers-that-be threaten to ruin the Joga Bonito’s pre-eminent position in the world of sport. After all these years discussing the issue,…
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