An Incontinent Blatter

Everyone’s favourite interventionist autocrat has been up to his old tricks again. This time, good old Sepp Blatter has been whining that penalty shootouts are no way to finish a World Cup, and that we can look forward to changes in time for South Africa 2010. Blatter has gone on record as saying that he [...]

The Under-Achievers

It’s six weeks since the new season started, and I have to say that the sunny optimism has worn off. A fourth defeat in a row (albeit a very unfortunate one) yesterday means that St Albans are now in freefall towards the Nationwide Conference relegation zone, but at least we had the advantage of low [...]

On The Hour, Every Hour

I’m starting to think that I may be a curse on some of these managers. Earlier on in the season, I took a little time to have a look at how Niall Quinn was getting on at Sunderland (considering their upturn under Roy Keane, Quinn must now qualify as one of the worst managers in [...]

All Bunged Up

Due to my shift patterns at work, I’ve not been able to update this week, when I had intended to. I had hoped to round up all of last weekend’s excitement and a quick look at the midweek fixtures this evening, but the fact of the matter is that it all really pales in comparison [...]

Eurovision

Hold the front page! For once, a match hyped up in the press actually managed to deliver the goods! Manchester United vs Celtic is never going to live in the memory in quite the same was as the Leeds United vs Celtic semi-final of 1970 (such is the the nature of the current bloated version [...]

Dirty, Dirty Leeds

Tonight at Elland Road, Leeds United play Sunderland in the Championship (for the sake of avoiding confusion, I will be reverting to these competitions current names, rather than using their old ones). It is, in it’s own peculiar way, a significant match. Have Sunderland really turned the corner under the tutelage of Roy Keane? And [...]

A Little Bit Of Perspective?

An interesting weekend’s football, but everything was put into perspective by events further down the football ladder. More of that later. In the Premiership, Everton recorded their biggest win against Liverpool since 1964. It’s too early in the season to read any enormous significance into the result itself, but the question of what Andy Johnson [...]

The Weekly Round-Up

First of all, if there’s anybody left that actually still bothers to read this, please accept my apologies for not having updated this since Tuesday. I could have made all manner of excuses about having been busy and so on, but I haven’t. What I have been this week is utterly disheartened with football. The [...]

Star Wars

So, William said that if he was selected for Chelsea, he’d score an own goal. Chelsea were outraged, and included him as part of the deal to sign Ashley Cole. And so it is that the putrid state of “tension” that has arisen between Arsenal and Chelsea rumbles on. They haven’t even kicked a ball [...]

Andorra And Out

To those of you that say that there are no competitive matches at international level anymore… God. Although it was a terrible performance from Andorra, I suppose you could argue that it was a decent enough performance from England. They looked a bit more balanced, and had a bit more shape in midfield. Defoe looked [...]