Owners – what do they know?
IMAGINE walking into a garage, plucking a spanner from the mechanic’s hand and saying ‘hang on, mate – you do it like THIS, I’ve seen it on the telly’. You wouldn’t dream of it, would you? So why do we – the football fan collective – think we know better than managers...
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,...
FEDERER AND SPAIN: MAKING HISTORY, SHAPING THE FUTURE
It’s become the fashion, whenever we’re confronted by an extraordinary sporting moment or talent, to grant it the title of ‘best ever’. Almost yearly, it seems, we are told a player or team or match is the greatest in history, unparalleled, unique. This summer the...
BORINI: Wheels in motion and a new cog in place
By Joe Milord FEW sides in the world are able to financially boss their way into winning. At the moment, only Man City, Chelsea, and Manchester United have distinguished themselves as clubs who are poised to do so. So, what are the “other” clubs left to do in such...
Rise of the Englightened Scottish Diddies
LAST Friday, the Chairmen of the senior clubs in Scotland's lower tier leagues did what most media commentators and pundits told us would be akin to turkeys voting for Christmas - they demanded that the club formerly known as Glasgow Rangers - "Sevco 5088" being its...
Owners – what do they know?
IMAGINE walking into a garage, plucking a spanner from the mechanic’s hand and saying ‘hang on, mate – you do it like THIS, I’ve seen it on the telly’. You wouldn’t dream of it, would you? So why do we – the football fan collective – think we know better than managers...
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,...
FEDERER AND SPAIN: MAKING HISTORY, SHAPING THE FUTURE
It’s become the fashion, whenever we’re confronted by an extraordinary sporting moment or talent, to grant it the title of ‘best ever’. Almost yearly, it seems, we are told a player or team or match is the greatest in history, unparalleled, unique. This summer the...
BORINI: Wheels in motion and a new cog in place
By Joe Milord FEW sides in the world are able to financially boss their way into winning. At the moment, only Man City, Chelsea, and Manchester United have distinguished themselves as clubs who are poised to do so. So, what are the “other” clubs left to do in such...
Rise of the Englightened Scottish Diddies
LAST Friday, the Chairmen of the senior clubs in Scotland's lower tier leagues did what most media commentators and pundits told us would be akin to turkeys voting for Christmas - they demanded that the club formerly known as Glasgow Rangers - "Sevco 5088" being its...