Joe Marshall
Ancelotti a scapegoat for much bigger problems at Chelsea
After being knocked out in the last eight of the Champions League, Chelsea have finished in second place, Carlo Ancelotti has been fired and along with an ageing side; the cracks now visible at Stamford Bridge may be a bigger than they appear. On Sunday 22nd Chelsea Football Club made an announcement that stated “Chelsea…
Ode to Emile
Emile Heskey perhaps epitomises the recent state of the England squad. Slow, tired, unable to find goals and the butt of the majority of jokes sent from phone to phone, laptop to laptop. Many stats and figures have been passed around throughout his international career, the most relevant perhaps being that goalkeepers Rene Higuita and…
England’s World Cup – Pointing the finger
On the 12th June 2010 England started their World Cup campaign, their team littered with some of the best players that world football has to offer. The likes of Ashley Cole, Stephen Gerrard and Wayne Rooney are but three names within the star-studded squad that look to both excite the Rainbow nation and bring the…
The Special One – El Especial
Jose Mourinho has enjoyed what is arguably his most successful year in managerial football with a treble in the Serie A. Inter Milan enjoyed an unprecedented rout of silverware under the keen eye of ‘the special one’, who will now head west, to the city of Madrid, to hopefully enjoy a similar success that the…
English Dominance To Be Hit By European Play-Off Places
In 1955 Real Madrid won the Spanish League and were permitted entry to the European Champion Clubs’ Cup, in the same season Stade De Reims won the French League and were also blessed with the opportunity to take part in the first competition that entailed the top teams throughout the best leagues in Europe. Real…
No logical reason for sacking Terry
John Terry has made his way into the headlines again, and now the British public want his head on a pike. His exploits when he was younger have been ignored, as have his mothers and step mothers theft, his fathers supposed drug dealing and his secret tours of Cobham training ground. Now that the alleged…
Celebrations for Tevez, Comiserations for Portsmouth
“Clutching” and “straws” springs to mind as the image of Carlos Tevez desperately googling ‘big eared television characters’ to find an excuse for his provocative celebration in the Carling Cup Semi-Final. I can’t say I believe his claims that he was paying tribute to ‘Top Giggio’, the star of an Italian children’s television programme. No,…
Sheer embarrassment as harmony returns to the Bridge
Two weeks ago I went to see Chelsea vs Fulham at Stamford Bridge. As a Chelsea fan I was horrified by what I had encountered. Chelsea had conceded in the first few minutes and stayed behind until the 78th; swinging in average crosses, and failing to string together more than three passes. Not until the…
Two Princes, Goodbye Benitez and Lady Luck
Whilst Reading arguably equalled Leeds feat in triumphing over one of the ‘top four’ bigger sides some serious questions have been raised regarding Liverpool football club, both on and off the pitch, and fingers are being pointed at Rafael Benitez. Rumours have been recklessly slung around about how Liverpool’s potential failure to secure a top…
Sol v Torres, where’s the real Jones and what are we paying clubs for?
With the January transfer window in full flow new signings have been surprisingly limited to the Premiership. Amidst the fringe sales of Gary Caldwell’s deal at Wigan and Tomas Pekhart’s exit from White Hart Lane, the arrival of Sol Cambell at Arsenal has come as a surprise to many. Considering Wengers reluctance to play any…
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