Kieran Gibbs suffered the ignominy of having to play with a bunch of players of clearly lower levels of ability as England under 18s were slaughtered by the Czech Republic, who managed to stroll to a 2-0 victory despite have only 9 men for the last 10 minutes. Gibbs must have wondered what was going…
This is what I don’t understand: when Eboue did the step over step over soon after he came on, on the right hand side ten yards or so into the opposition half (it was just in front of me so that’s why I particularly noticed it), there was a lot of laughter around my part…
Early in 2007 the story was going around that Flamini (who we signed from Marseille in 2004) was fed up with the lack of starting opportunities he had at Arsenal. He was played in a lot of games, but mostly as a substitute. Flamini didn’t leave at the end of 2006/7 of course, and went…
This is what I don’t understand: when Eboue did the step over step over soon after he came on, on the right hand side ten yards or so into the opposition half (it was just in front of me so that’s why I particularly noticed it), there was a lot of laughter around my part…
Editorial note: this article was published originally on the morning of 1 October, and it was meant to be ironic. However judging by the comments that we’ve had back since then, it is clear that while the three of us who came up with the idea while watching the match thought it amusing, others don’t. …
I wrote the previous piece about the number of shots the teams had on saturday night, and then really worried. Could the Manchester Bankrupt figure of 32 shots be right? It seems insanely high. I took that figure from the Guardian web site – along with all the others – and so decided to go…
It is the time of year when Tottenham change their manager. It matters not whether the current manager is a decent guy having a hard time at an insane club, or a jumped up twirp who really has limited ability and no power as the big men on the board do their crazy thing. One…
In 2006 Italy faced a football scandal which saw four clubs punished – including Juve to whom Patrick Vieira was transferred. Vieira won the championship with Juve, but then had his medals removed because the games had been fixed. Milan were also found guilty. That was big enough, but it was only part one….
I don’t keep a diary of each game I watch, so when thinking of past games I have to rely on memory – which can be notoriously false. But having given that proviso, I am not sure that Flamini was as good as he is now made out to be. Certainly his games before the…
To say that the disaster against Fulham realised all our worst fears is nonsense. It was a terrible display – rather similar to watching Arsenal in the 1960s – but that doesn’t mean its all over for the season, and we can write everything off now. The same players as we saw at Fulham have…
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