Early Doors - Your morning briefing blog

Tottenham's sacking of Juande Ramos was a masterstroke in burying news.By delaying the announcement until late on Saturday, they ensured there was no mention of it in most of the Sunday papers, and it was a whisker too late to make Match of the Day.It would be as though nothing...More

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Great news: It seems bad-boy behaviour is making a comeback. Early Doors surveys the lie of the land. CIGARETTESArsenal captain William Gallas was snapped rolling out of a London nightclub on Wednesday night with a cigarette in his mouth.Reporting the 'news', The Sun was at pains to point out that...More

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As the US presidential election looms, there has been uproar at the revelation that Republicans have spent $150,000 (about £92,000) on clothes, hair and make-up for gun-toting hockey mom Sarah Palin in less than two months.Excuse ED if it thinks that sum actually represents decent value, considering the massive cost...More

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Everyone agrees: there is something terribly wrong with Cristiano Ronaldo. He must still be feeling the effects of that summer wrangle between Manchester United and Real Madrid.He seems aloof. He often refuses to pass. He celebrates his goals with little more than a shrug. Something MUST be bothering him.Wait, hold...More

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Didier Drogba faces one of those ubiquitous FA probes over comments made in his autobiography over his red card in the Champions League final.Drogba was sent off late in extra time for a girly little slap on Nemanja Vidic, and said that he ought to have gone the whole hog...More

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Question: When does abnormality become normality?Answer: Yesterday.That was the day when Stoke and Hull won Premier League games against prestigious opponents and nobody batted so much as an eyelash.That's Stoke City and Hull City.Hull overcame West Ham at the KC Stadium to place themselves third, just behind Chelsea and Liverpool, and...More

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International week is over, leaving us free to get back to the serious business of the Premier League, right? Wrong. With the likes of Robinho, Cesc Fabregas and Martin Petrov all returning home with injuries, there is plenty for their club bosses to moan about following the latest round of...More

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A week ago it would have seemed unthinkable that a 5-1 win would be greeted with grunts of dissatisfaction and a subsequent 3-1 win in Belarus would be treated as a famous victory, but it's funny how things turn out. Belarus - just as Macedonia did before them - proved...More

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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of communism in Europe might have been great news for hundreds of millions of people, but Early Doors still rues the day the East Germans got into their Trabants and turned left.Democracy, prosperity and freedom are all very...More

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Early Doors cannot say it wouldn't be annoyed if it had to sit on the bench while Chris Iwelumo missed open goals, but Kris Boyd's international 'retirement' seems a bit far-fetched.Justifying his decision to keep Boyd on the bench against Norway on Saturday, Scotland boss George Burley pointed out that...More

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