Off The Record News Archives


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.

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Mar
20
2007

How do we deal with diving (cheating) and playing for fouls?

The questions we must ask are:

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Mar
13
2007

Lucky Liverpool?

After Liverpool’s amazing victory over AC Milan in the 2005 champions league final, may disgruntled fans of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal accused Liverpool of being lucky and undeserving winners.

After all, how could England’s...

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Mar
12
2007

Which football player do you hate the most?

Football provides us with players we hero worship and love. It also creates villains and players we loathe and detest. Here are my top 5 most hated, reviled players, past and present (you are welcome to add yours to the list in the comments below):

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Mar
5
2007

David Pleat gets his Liverpool v Manchester United analysis completely wrong

About the only thing DP gets right in his article is that Manchester United were defensively tight. The rest, I’m afraid, is bollocks.

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Mar
2
2007

Warnock and Pearce speak sense while Wenger takes Arsenal on a crusade

I wonder if Arsene Wenger’s head-on approach is the best way to deal with the current situation between Arsenal and the FA.

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Feb
27
2007

How media affects our daily football dose

Whenever I’ve seen pictures shown by newspapers, it always crosses my mind that as controllers of what we see, read and hear (and thus influencing what we think), the media has tremendous power in shaping public opinion and even more responsibility...

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Feb
23
2007

Do players have any understanding of football tactics?

Reading about Reyes bitch about Capello’s defensive tactics, two things came to mind:

1) Reyes should learn to keep his mouth shut – all you have to do is wave a mic...

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Feb
23
2007

Will other clubs follow Chelsea’s lead on YouTube?

As I’ve written earlier, I think Chelsea’s move to put video footage on YouTube is a welcome step. The big question after that was though,...

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Feb
23
2007

Evra vs Heinze / Saha vs Ruud – a Manchester United fan speaks out

This is a rant – as such it is personal and one-sided. I still like Saha for the same qualities that make him a United darling, and I’m partial to Evra too. However, that should have no bearing on our assessment of players.

Flair...

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Feb
23
2007

Arsenal’s Brazilians put a human face on football

As I wrote yesterday, I don’t want to meet the prima donnas in football – I want to meet real people, players that I could sit and chat...

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