JOE COLE: A VICTIM OF AGE, POLITICS AND CIRCUMSTANCE

By Karl Coppack SOMETIMES great players have graceless exits. Robbie Fowler ended his first tenure by being substituted at half time thanks to Didi Hamann being sent off at Sunderland, Fernando Torres skulked off with two goals at Molineux but without a smile and...

JOE COLE’S SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION

Grim is the word. Liverpool-Swansea was grim. Unrelentingly, teeth-grindingly, appallingly grim. There was, this time, no leeway to claim the opposition were too direct or the officials blinkered. It was a simply, starkly, awful performance. The shambling figures on...

JOE COLE – A NICE PROBLEM TO HAVE?

Problems. Jay-Z dealt with his by emphasising the positive. He’s a glass half-full kind of guy. Notorious B.I.G. was more downbeat, seeing the kind of causal link between the accumulation of capital and the emergence of personal challenges with which Rosie Redknapp,...