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.
An Iraqi football fan shot dead a player of the opposing team as he tried to score an equalizing goal in the final minutes of a match last Saturday. The shooting occured in Hilla (100 km south of Baghdad) during a match between local teams.
According...
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Or how YOU can play your part in helping Liverpool win the Double:
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While you feast on the irresistible Melissa Satta and Ronaldo’s new / ex girl Karina...
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We fall over each other in talking about the dumb things footballers do, and we laugh / cringe at the not-so-cool...
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Football is driven by exaggerated caricatures. The ‘role model’ Kaka, the ‘inspirational’ Gerrard, the ‘lazy’ Ferdinand, the ‘fat’ Lampard, the ‘brilliant’ Messi, the ‘petulant’...
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Hello everybody…
That’s not me greeting you lovely folk, that’s D to the B riding the double-A of the V himself, (Sir – so far it’s optional) David Beckham.
We’re honored...
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Ah…Penalties. Easy for the goalkeepers – they’re expected not to save them but are heroes if they do – but terrifying for the penalty-takers (think Terry, most England internationals in since 1990 and of course, the man whose...
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Arsene Wenger has incredible faith in his players and while some Arsenal fans, the press at large and supporters of rival clubs slate Mr Wenger for his ’stubbornness’, you’ve got to give him credit for what he’s achieved (through...
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Chris Tarrant:
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Ever had “a moment”? One of those little passages of time where it seems like a series of jigsaw pieces move all at once into perfect position, confirming their compatibility with a satisfying “click”?
I have. And it...
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