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How to kill English football in one move
Fri Nov 06 09:37AM
Had he been around the American Midwest in the pioneering days of the nineteenth century, Bolton's chairman Phil Gartside would have no doubt appointed himself commander of any wagon trains heading towards the Californian gold rush. At the first hint of a problem - a wheel nut working loose, a horse going lame, a…More
Wed Nov 04 11:46AM
Last night Didier Drogba showed what an asset he is to Chelsea. Currently the second best centre-forward in the world after Fernando Torres, he was magnificent away at Atletico Madrid, personally securing Chelsea's qualification to the knock-out stage of the Champions League with two typically robust, muscular goals. It was...More
Fri Oct 30 11:27AM
Marlon King claimed in court this week that he hadn't assaulted a 20-year-old student in a night club, breaking her nose after she rejected his clumsy advances. It was, he said, a case of mistaken identity. If so, it wasn't the first time he had been involved in a such...More
Wed Oct 28 12:48PM
Assuming that the game does not succumb to the sort of contagion of hacking and spitting not seen outside the movie 28 Days Later, Chelsea will take on Bolton Wanderers in the Carling Cup tonight. The home side will be fortified against the arrival of the swine flu in the Bolton baggage...More
Fri Oct 23 09:35AM
It was not perhaps the terminology his manager might use, but Glen Johnson was accurate in his assessment of what Sunday's game against Manchester United means for his club's season. Speaking in Liverpool's training ground earlier this week, the England full-back described the fixture as "s*** or bust".His point was...More
Wed Oct 21 10:58AM
Never mind a stray black cat, the luck he is having Rafa Benitez must have run down an entire cattery on his way to work at Melwood. As if losing to a comedy blow-up goal was not enough to make him think the world was conspiring against him, last night's...More
Fri Oct 16 09:54AM
For most clubs in the Premier League, a visit to Blackburn would represent the trip least likely to excite the masses. Most fans scour the fixture list when it is printed to check out the date of visits to Old Trafford, Anfield, the Emirates and possibly this season, that home...More
Wed Oct 14 12:56PM
Peter Crouch and Gabriel Agbonlahor are likely to start for England against Belarus this evening, with both Shaun Wright-Phillips and Aaron Lennon beetling down the flanks. Rightly so. If Fabio Capello's expressed managerial intention to pick his England team on form rather than reputation is to have any meaning, then...More
Fri Oct 09 09:50AM
So would you miss them? Would, in your opinion, the tournament be reduced by their absence? Or are you so one-eyed in your affection for England the fewer obstacles in their way the better? The fact is, if things do not go their way over the next few days, there...More
Wed Oct 07 12:06PM
If you are one of the boundary-pushing million to have signed up for internet coverage of England's game in Ukraine, and assuming you have a broadband connection sufficiently substantial to cope with buffering and disconnects, and assuming you haven't been unplugged by aggrieved junior members of the family anxious to...More