It is the effrontery of Liverpool’s supporters that make them so hard to take. Having been involved in the worst massacre of supporters ever through their wild attack on Juve supporters in the Euro Cup Final, you’d think they’d be a bit more circumspect. But at the Euro Cup Final of 2007 they were at…
After Sven the FA turned to the Middlesbrough manager to restore the faith of English people in the English team. This was the man, less we forget, who was in charge for Arsenal 7 Middlesbrough 0. This is how the Middlesbrough manager responded: “This has been my toughest day as Middlesbrough manager without a shadow…
6 Feb 2008: Didier Drogba, Gazzetta dello Sport: ‘Next summer I will go away from London. My future is Barcelona or Milan.’ 7 Feb 2008: Didier Drogba: ‘I said what I had to say and I think that was understood. What counts is giving 100 per cent in a Chelsea shirt. Winning the Champions League…
Rafa Benitez: maniac at the helm Update Feb 2008 In Feb 2008 Benitez made some wonderful statements (quoted in the Guardian Feb 23) 1. On the squad “I rotate because I want to win… we have to rotate because our squad is not as good as Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester Utd.” So whose fault is…
The story of the way Cole paraded himself to Chelsea while still an Arsenal player, breaking every rule about transfers, so that he could leave the club that had turned him into the great player he was, is so well known, that it doesn’t really need a review. The story of his “auto” biography is…
Latest additions: Drogba (watch my lips, it don’t make sense) and Ronaldo of Man U fame – oh so oh so oh so humble
17 Jan 2008: George Burley says ‘I’m very happy at Southampton. The support I’ve had from all the chairmen – I think I’ve had four here in the last year – and everybody at the club, has been great. I’m flattered to be asked to speak to Scotland, but it’s something that I’m not considering…
Russia coach Guus Hiddink has been handed a six-month suspended sentence and fined £30,000 after being found guilty of tax fraud by a Dutch court. Prosecutors had demanded a 10-month prison sentence for Hiddink, who was accused of evading almost £940,000 in Dutch taxes by claiming to be a resident of Belgium from 2002 to…
Pardew is recorded in the Charlton section of this site regarding a total lack of knowledge of the laws of the game. Here’s another Pardew-ism. He has criticised Arsenal for promoting foreign youngsters and not doing enough for England. So then, when times are desperate, he called M Wenger and asked if he could borrow…
“Sir” Alex Ferguson, as he likes to be known, said in January 2008, ‘At big clubs it’s paramount that the board shows its class. I’ve been very fortunate because I’ve had good directors – people like Martin Edwards.’ He was perhaps forgetting that in 1996 United press secretary Ken Ramsden warned that Edwards’ proclivity for…
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