The nominations are in and, while only English football’s most vehement and deluded nationalists have any complaints, the focus in England has inevitably been on the complete lack of native players on this year’s Ballon d’Or list and the…Read More
Anyone still bent on moaning about the boredom that is Serie A needs to stop relying on trite clichés and start watching actual matches. While FSC (that’s Fox Soccer Channel, the primary place where those in the states get…Read More
With just three games to the final, the sixteen teams left in the Carling Cup will feel they all have the chance to get to the season’s first final at Wembley. With three all-Premiership ties amongst some more ‘surprising’…Read More
Being English I came to the conclusion many years ago that I’d either be extremely lucky - or having one of those dreams that you try to hide from your mother - if I was going to ever experience…Read More
It threatened to be a low-key Premier League weekend, with only a couple of fixtures looking anything like an enticing way to spend a couple of hours. But the self-proclaimed ‘best league in the world’ pulled one out of…Read More
Something had to give in the first Old Firm game of the season. After the first eight weeks of league action, Celtic and Rangers met at Celtic Park with matching 100% records. Managers Neil Lennon and Walter Smith knew…Read More
