Too Fast, Too Furious

by | Mar 12, 2012 | Footie

THE SUPPORTER arrested for alleged racial abuse directed at Oldham’s Tom Adeyemi won’t be charged, it has been confirmed today. I went to Elland Road in the immediate aftermath of Fowler being sold to Leeds United by Gerard Houllier. First game there, a headcase sits...

Downing On The Wing

by | Dec 18, 2011 | Footie

FIRST half, Anfield, watching Liverpool at home to QPR. Stewart Downing having a very strong game on the right of midfield. He’s running at people, showing dangerous pace and finding men with regularity. This is a good performance. This is a good player. But...

FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON IS SUNDAY

by | Nov 18, 2011 | Footie

This season has done my head in. The lack of European football combined with the aching gaps for internationals has left me feeling like things have never really got going. Liverpool are next playing in a beard, in a yonk, some time after the next ice age we’ll kick...

What’s To Be Done The Europa League?

by | Oct 13, 2011 | Footie

  THE usual rash of complaints emerge about the Europa League every season. That it is too bloated, too long-winded a competiton and has too many dead rubbers. It conjures up too little interest and isn’t a patch on the old UEFA Cup. Let’s have look at it: ●...

THE LAST OF THE MOHICAN

by | Sep 2, 2011 | Footie

Wise move from Raul. The Mohican who was all tats and no trousers was always likely to suffer from Bellamy’s Golf Bag Of Justice and find himself on the wrong side of a long iron. He’d managed to take Reece’s place in the squad of looking hard but being really, really...

What I Did On My Holidays

by | Aug 26, 2011 | Footie

I went to the Edinburgh Fringe festival. That’s what I did. Three days in the company of my friend Stu. I’m going to tell you about it. But let me make clear, I’m no expert on the old stand-up comedy. I like it when I see it, but I’m not that...

Did Gordon Taylor Have A Responsibility Deficit?

by | Aug 5, 2011 | Footie

IT looks as though the key document in the phone-hacking scandal, at least as far as News Corp and James Murdoch are concerned, is going to be the “For Neville” email, analysed here by David Leigh and the inestimable Nick Davies. For the purposes of this discussion...

Ban footballers from Twitter? Shake my head…

by | Aug 5, 2011 | Footie

MICK McCarthy has joined Ferguson and the FA in warning players about the supposed dangers of Twitter. Ken Bates has banned it. And every now and again – after some mini-controversy – people say footballers will have to be taken off the social-networking...