Archive for September 2008

Don’t blame Rafa, blame Liverpool’s ‘stars’

If a team does poorly, or as is the case in modern-day football, fails to entertain, the blame falls on the manager. That sounds right until you consider that if those bloody millionaires running aimlessly on the pitch had followed instructions, and if the opposition had turned around and grabbed their ankles as asked, the…

Who care more, fans or managers?

Who care more, fans or managers?

If you have never coached or managed a football team you will believe, like I did, that the fans feel the highs of victory and lows of defeat more than anyone else. You will believe that the players and staff just don’t care as much as you do. I have always felt this way about…

Tottenham should stop blaming Berbatov; he didn’t betray them, they failed him!

Dimitar Berbatov came to Tottenham Hotspur believing that he would be part of a new revolution in the Premier League that would shake the established order and lead Tottenham to the Champions League. In the two years since his arrival, the player has lost faith in Tottenham’s dream and more importantly lost faith in Tottenham’s…

England squad for Andorra and Croatia

England play Andorra in Barcelona’s Olympic Stadium at 1900 BST on Saturday evening and then travel to Zagreb for their second qualifier against Croatia on Wednesday, 10 September at 2000 BST. Players out with injury include Steven Gerrard, Owen Hargreaves, Michael Carrick and Micah Richards, with Portsmouth’s Glenn Johnson and Fulham’s Jimmy Bullard brought into…