Charlie Rhodes
Sports Editor
Football Commentators: You Can’t Live With Them…
Charlie Rhodes • May 30 2010It’s no secret. I loathe most football commentators. Not all, but definitely most. I do not care to recall the amount of times I have been reduced to watching long…
Serbia Vs. New Zealand: Match Preview
Charlie Rhodes • May 29 2010International Friendly: Serbia vs. New Zealand Date: Saturday 29th May 16:15 (GMT) Venue: Hypo Group Arena, Austria Capacity 32,000 The All Whites take on Serbia this Saturday, 400 meters above sea…
The Special One – El Especial
Charlie Rhodes • May 28 2010Jose Mourinho has enjoyed what is arguably his most successful year in managerial football with a treble in the Serie A. Inter Milan enjoyed an unprecedented rout of silverware under…
The best festival of the summer is on the horizon
Charlie Rhodes • May 28 2010My boys aren’t in it, but my enthusiasm could never dampen
‘England Expects’ – And That’s The Problem
Charlie Rhodes • May 28 2010It’s started again. In fact it started about a month-and-a-half ago. The now seemingly omnipresent ‘En-Ger-Land’ white-van jingo-jango has farted it’s way back onto the front and back pages of…
Is the Premier League turning into a proving ground for potential superstars?
Charlie Rhodes • May 28 2010As yet another talismanic player gets ready to pack his bags and bid farewell to North London, the rumour mill is working overtime as Arsenal are linked with every discontented…
Group C: The Group of Life
Charlie Rhodes • Mar 1 2012With the footballing space on the internet dominated by Britain and America, this group is being intensely studied. But it shouldn’t be. I mean, really, it’s not all that interesting….
No Longer “The Special One”, Mourinho is now “The One”
Charlie Rhodes • May 27 2010When Massimo Moratti appointed Jose Mourinho the new Internazionale manager in May 2008, some wondered “why”? Inter had won the Serie A for a third successive season yet Roberto Mancini declared after their Champions League exit that he would be leaving. The reasoning behind appointing Mancini’s successor was simple, Mourinho was then and is now a winner.
If Glen Johnson were Brazilian the press would drool
Charlie Rhodes • May 27 2010The nation’s disaffection with England’s inability to keep possession in the aftermath of England’s World Cup warm-up match with Mexico on Monday shrouded what should have been a day of…
Birmingham Complete £6m Deal For Nikola Zigic
Charlie Rhodes • May 27 2010Birmingham City have finalised a deal that will see Valencia striker Nikola Zigic move to St. Andrews once the World Cup culminates in July, after the player completed a medical…
U.S. Soccer finalizes 23-man roster: Brian Ching says goodbye, Gomez cries
Charlie Rhodes • May 27 2010So we now know the 23 Bob Bradley will take to South Africa. They are: Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa, England), Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton, England), Tim Howard (Everton, England). Defenders:…
Cesc, I guess this is farewell
Charlie Rhodes • May 27 2010Some things in sport are as inevitable as night following day. No Grand Prix is complete without Martin Brundle brilliantly interrupting Tanja Bauer on his grid-walk. You can be almost…
Mourinho’s move to Madrid moves ever closer as Pellegrini is finally axed
Charlie Rhodes • May 27 2010Possibly one of the biggest certainties in football is coming ever closer to fruition. Jose Mourinho will leave his newly crowned European champions to take prime place in the hot…
I smell a banana skin – where will the upsets be in the WC group stage?
Charlie Rhodes • Jun 12 2010Germany v Ghana It is fun but usually wrong to predict German failure. Euro 2008 was yet another example of Germany’s ability to deliver in major tournaments; they reached the…
France Keeper Hugo Lloris: ‘The World Cup Ball Is A Disaster’
Charlie Rhodes • Jan 11 2022In the run up to every World Cup there are certain inevitabilities that are so predictable, you can almost set your watch by them. Every other television commercial will start…