If there’s something that must be said, but cannot be said within blogging / journalistic confines, this is the place to say it. We’ve used this column to poke fun, to provoke and to just say our minds.
Newcastle striker Obafemi Martins recently announced that next season, Newcastle United were capable of challenging for...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 48 comments
Like players, there are few managers who can aspire to true greatness. People like Bill Shankly and Alex Ferguson come along once in a generation. For each Shankly, there are hundreds of other managers who fade into obscurity, and dozens who come close...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 18 comments
Finally! Evidence that homosexuality is rampant in football! David James is going to be...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 7 comments
After Chelsea beat West Ham 4-1, after Jose Mourinho skipped the post-match press conference in protest and Shaun Wright-Phillips finally had the night that he has dreamt about since coming to Chelsea, there was time enough to look back to before the...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. One comment
Thanks to Ollie over at Who Ate All The Pies for putting the link up.
In simple terms, this is why you watch football.
Written by Ahmed Bilal. 6 comments
Eric Cantona once famously described the role of Didier Deschamp in the French national team as that of a ‘water-carrier’, the impish implication being that he toiled to win the ball and pass it on to more skillful players, such as Cantona...
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Written by BD Condell. 12 comments
What if football clubs were women?
Who would you pick to represent your club?
Inspired from this forum post, I thought I’d make a list of our own for Soccerlens.
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 42 comments
What the Czech players did last Saturday was nothing new – sad as it may seem to the hypocritical, self-righteous media, it is something that happens every night, wherever there are people with money.
What bothers me though, is this:
Written by Ahmed Bilal. 4 comments
We’ve spent so long criticising and whinging about the England team and the players that we now take it as our god-given right to attack the national team at every turn.
It sucks, it’s weak, it’s gone too far and it must stop.
Written by Ahmed Bilal. 13 comments
Here’s an experiment – please read the following two paragraphs and tell me what you think:
Written by Ahmed Bilal. 3 comments
