Salvador Cabanas: “Knowing the support of the fans and players was the most important thing”
Last week, Salvador Cabañas of Club America in Mexico City and the Paraguayan national team spoke for the first time after the tragic gunshot wound to his head on Jan….
Park your prejudices at the door
What’s in a name? Ji-Sung Park is finally earning some plaudits for his influential performances other than being habitually, lazily, and possibly prejudicially tagged ‘industrious.’ Which, by the way, if…
United’s win only proves that Liverpool overachieved last season
Let’s face it, Liverpool, in the year (THEIR year) that they were supposed to halt United’s title no.19, have been nothing short of shocking. But given we’re talking about the…
Inter and Mourinho deserved their victory
Jose Mourinho and Inter Milan did a job on Chelsea last night. Not only did they display the kind of defensive obduracy that was the quintessence of Mourinho’s tenure at…
Where Are They Now? – Vince Bartram
Footballers like Vince Bartram are somewhat of a dying breed. Bartram was plucked from obscurity by Wolves in 1985 whilst playing for a small non-league team in Dudley. The Birmingham…
Fierce finish expected in France
When in 2009 this season in Ligue 1 was much looked at like a bit of deja vu of last season, with Bordeaux being the most consistent team, after the…
United 3-0 Fulham – Match Report
You felt that a game like this – starting off slowly and massively frustrating us for the entirety of the first 45 minutes – would simply turn out to be…
Real Madrid haven’t learnt from their mistakes
When will Real Madrid learn? After six long years of being ignominiously dumped out of the Champions League at the last 16 stage their philosophy has not changed. The most…
Quartet Can Save Gers’ Future
The future of Scotland’s most successful football club has been under serious scrutiny over the last year or so after previous chairman and major shareholder Sir David Murray stepped down…
Everything’s Not Lost
Theo Walcott’s disappointing performance in England’s friendly against Egypt saw his World Cup hopes written-off by large sections of the media. Fabio Capello replaced the ineffective Arsenal youngster after 57 minutes…
Europe – The Final Countdown (2012)
Five referees. Wage caps. The 6+5 rule. Michel Platini may be on a mission to over-complicate just about everything in European football, but on some subjects nobody can accuse him…
Mario Balotelli, Italy’s Brightest Young Star?
Italy’s future in club and international terms is bleak, whether you look at the fact that the Serie A could be losing one of it’s Champions League spots to Germany,…
Wenger should rethink his policy on plus 30’s
So Arsene Wenger is satisfied with his decision to re-sign Sol Campbell. In a press conference ahead of his side’s second leg tie with Porto he said: Sol wants to…
Football’s guilty pleasures
Danny Last, from the blog European Football Weekends talks about his footballing guilty pleasures. A guilty pleasure is something one enjoys and considers pleasurable despite feeling a trifle of guilt…
Give us back our Orange Ball!
Stuart Fuller, from the Blog The Ball is Round tries to find out where the orange ball has gone. In the first week of February I ended up through a…
