by Rob Gutmann | Mar 5, 2016 | Footie
CRYSTAL Palace — the team of the 80s. That become the media’s billing for Terry Venables’ bright young Cockney things who went from promotion to the top flight to being considered the fresh new dynamic face of modern football in a short space of time, at...
by Melissa Reddy | Mar 3, 2016 | Footie
“WE made it clear from the first second that it will be very difficult for City.” Park the scoreline for a second. Wait a minute with the goals. Just hold off on the fact it could have been more. Breathe in the dominance. Stretch in the dominance. Shake...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 3, 2016 | Footie
YOU trudge out of Wembley. You have a face on. The face on. The face of yours that your loved ones know. It’s the football. It was more than that though, you know. It was the feeling you were part of an eternally losing battle. Against the system. Against the...
by John Gibbons | Mar 2, 2016 | Footie
THE players and manager deserve great credit to go from Sunday to that. Perhaps the Manchester City players, just like their supporters, failed to turn up. But they are still big and good and need beating — and how they were beaten. The tone was actually set by...
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 1, 2016 | Footie
WHERE to start. The match at Wembley has destroyed my week and my life. The pain is too much to bear. I rarely go out these days. I can’t communicate with my family and friends are becoming fading memories. This is all since Sunday tea-time. And then I realise there’s...
by Ben Johnson | Feb 15, 2016 | Footie
THERE’S a phrase going round at the minute about good teams having seven or eight people to carry a piano and three or four to play it. I struggle with this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I bought a piano about two years ago and arranged for it to be...
by Martin Fitzgerald | Feb 14, 2016 | Footie
AFTERNOON, everyone. Your normal host for this sort of thing, Neil Atkinson, is currently in Boston living his other life as a screenwriter who doesn’t get to watch Liverpool win 6-0 away from home and see Kolo Toure kiss the ground as if he’s just...
by John Gibbons | Feb 14, 2016 | Footie
A REALLY strange day. The game had a feel of a friendly first half as Liverpool strolled into a 2-0 lead without much effort and Villa looked pretty disinterested. Maybe it was the fact we all had the sun in our eyes throughout the first half so it was all a bit...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 13, 2016 | Footie
IT will be a bit of a shame to lose Villa. The away trip, not the team. It’s an old-school red brick football factory — and one of the last of its kind. Handily, it’s in the middle of the UK and is an unambiguous there-and-back-in-a-day away job. No...
by Ben Johnson | Feb 8, 2016 | Footie
IT is surprising how often my thoughts and random daydreams always come back to Sam Allardyce and his life. I can’t help it. I have tried to scratch him from my mind but it’s no good. I think about whether he can sing and, if so, whether he sings around the...
