Pakistan and Football
Pakistan lost 0-7 to Iraq at home in their World Cup qualifier last night. Despite the humiliating scoreline, the result will barely register as a blip in Pakistan (heck, I…
Steven Gerrard the Hypocrite
Liverpool captain, Liverpool legend, England vice-captain (and legend-in-making) and the standard-bearer of English morality and ethical behavior, one Steven Gerrard, has many fans. Indeed, despite his insistence that ‘people like…
Writing Competition Winners
The winner of the 1st Soccerlens Writing Competition has been decided. You can read all 40 entries here – I’d like at least half of the submitters to guest blog…
SquadGod Week 9: An Ode To Crap Managers
What does your fantasy football team and England have in common?
Is Steve McClaren Good Enough To Manage England?
Why have the FA backed Steve McClaren when the former assistant manager has almost failed his objective of qualifying for Euro 2008 (and must rely on Israel to beat Russia…
England vs Estonia, Russia vs England, Live Blogging for both Euro 2008 qualifiers
As a blogger, I love the international break – it’s a time to relax, blow off some steam and recharge your batteries for the next cycle of league game upon…
Writing Competition – Updates
We’re one week into the first-ever Soccerlens Writing Contest and in my view it’s going extremely well (considering that I was afraid that we’d get 0 submissions, it’s going great!)….
2007 Soccerlens Football Writing Competition
Soccerlens is hosting a football writing competition – if you think you’re better than the journalist / blogger hacks you force yourself to read everyday (in some cases that’s not…
Guardian’s Daniel Taylor doesn’t deserve to write about Manchester United
July 2014, Editor’s note: This was written 7 years ago and while I stand by what I said then, it’s only fair to say that not only has Daniel Taylor…
Grab Your Balls to Release the Anger Trapped Inside You
If there’s a god, I thank him for making stupid people (otherwise god bless random mutations, eh?). Some say that variety is the spice of life – although considering that…
Premier League Manager Sack Race: Tottenham, Bolton, Fulham, Chelsea or someone else?
Despite the well-documented tension at Stamford Bridge and the countless speculation, no one actually expected Jose Mourinho to be the first managerial casualty in the Premier League. It just goes…
The Arsenal board should buy out Kroenke
It’s been a while since I last talked about Arsenal (the whole Usmanov vs bloggers thing has really taken off though), and with positive news to report this time, let’s…
SquadGod Week 5
Hello and welcome to our weekly Fantasy Football update. The prize is $500, there are 221 competitors and already we have quite a stiff competition brewing. Let’s look at the…
Mourinho Leaves Chelsea for…Tottenham?
Update: Avram Grant (the director of football brought in from Pompey) is set to takeover at Chelsea. My bet is that he’s going to be there till January or May…
Qualify for Champions League or Win the Uefa / FA Cup?
When Blackburn’s Morten Gamst Pedersen was asked to choose between a top-four finish and winning the UEFA Cup, he picked the UEFA Cup. This caught my attention, because it’s something…
