FORMBY, an affluent suburb on the outskirts of Merseyside, has been home to enough Premier League footballers to put together a star-studded mixed age representative team. Steven Gerrard, Leighton Baines, Jordan Henderson, Alan Shearer, Neil Ruddock, Glen Johnson,...
By Daniel Fitzsimmons BLOODY Brussels, eh. I’ve got nothing against Belgium. Some of my best friends are Belgian. I’d happily let a group of Belgian men move in next door. I was used to having Belgians as neighbours for a while, and they were alright. No harm in them....
By Kate Forrester SPAIN. They’re a good team, aren’t they? In with a chance of winning. Again. Play nice football, don’t they? Do they? I don’t know. If you were hoping for sensible discussion on such things, then sorry about that, because I’m your Spain...
AUSTRALIA. I have a few problems with Australia. First up there’s the whole ‘red centre’ thing. I’m red/green colour blind. Stood with a thousand people cooing ‘oooh’ and ‘aaah’ and ‘look at the colours, they’re amazing’ as the sun set on what, to me, looked like a...
By Si Steers THE SWISS are a nation famous for Cheese, Chocolate, and Banks and perhaps a little less well known for football, but it is a culturally rich and wealthy country that boasts a quirky and unique significance in world affairs. Switzerland is probably most...
By Phil Blundell NEIL SAID do something a bit cultural or a bit football or just your impressions. And then he gave me Greece. So… Ouzo is disgusting. I like Kebabs though. I really like Kebabs. I’ve just had some Lamb Shish Kebabs for my tea from M&S. Well...
IF THINGS are getting easier, maybe you’re headed downhill. – Ghanaian proverb I like this proverb. I like its suggestion that struggling is merely a step on the road to progress and that the easier path isn’t always the right one. Ghana has had its fair share...
by Kristan Heneage STOOD OUTSIDE the Sporting Kansas City training complex were a huddle of Mexican fans, clutching everything from bottles of expensive tequila to a large portrait of their newest saint. The man they were waiting for was U.S. international Graham...
By Ben McCausland BUDWEISER: The Great American Lager. Except that it isn’t – it’s German. And it’s shite. Budweiser: The King of Beers. Except that it isn’t. Budweiser is more the Court Jester of Beers, or maybe the Hideous Old Crone of Beers. Indicative perhaps of...
By Craig Rimmer 16 YEARS. It’s a long time to wait for a football obsessed country like Colombia. The 90’s vintage was generally considered to have been the finest in Colombia’s sporting history, yet in this country we are far more likely to associate Colombian...
Salah’s future, summer exit talk, and inside insight from Lewis Steele, plus January pressure on Liverpool to add bodies. Guehi, Branthwaite, Wharton, Konaté’s contract, and who’s really on the radar.
Rob Gutmann hosts John Gibbons, Josh Sexton and Mike Kearney…
