Football FanCast
columnist Jerome Johnstone looks back at the Premier League years and
wonders who must be considered its finest midfielder.
Since the very first moment that the gruff voiced Andy Gray
and the ever hairy Richard Keys introduced the Premier League to our screens,
little did we know what was around the corner. It illuminated a game that to be
fair was in desperate need of an injection of life and the Sky's fortunes that
have been pumped into the game over the last 16yrs has transformed it at every
level and insured that the Premier League would become the best in the world.
Football FanCast
columnist Jim McKendry looks at two Liverpool Legends and wonders
why they have failed to set the International scene alight.
If there are two players who will certainly get inducted in
the Premier League hall of fame at some point in their lifetime, then it has to
be Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. They are two of my favourite players and
the real heartbeat of that Liverpool side and both would run through the
proverbial brick walls for the cause. I don't where both players will rank in
their great club illustrious history but I'm guessing they have already done
enough to be considered among the best.
Football FanCast
columnist Davis Lowe looks at the striking dilemma that faces
Fabio Capello and wonders who he should choose to spearhead England's attack.
If you look back over the last 20yrs of English football,
the national side has been blessed with some of the finest strike talent you
are likely to see. Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and Robbie Fowler, to name a few
and it really was an embarrassment of riches for those respective England
bosses and the type of headache all managers would like to have. It is however
an area that has dried up quite considerably in recent years as clubs choose to
bring in foreign strikers at expense of home grown talent and really you could
forgive Fabio Capello for feeling let down with the lack of striking talent at
his disposal.
Football FanCast
columnist Michael McKenna looks ahead to this afternoon's game at the
JJB and feels that Sir Alex will be the one popping the champagne corks come
5pm.
This coming Sunday sees Man United come within 90 minutes of
retaining their Premiership crown. Normally, Wigan away and United wouldn't
even blink but this time may be different.
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Football FanCast columnist Hans
Schmitz feels that Tom Huddleston is being widely underused at Spurs
and feels the midfield man could save the club a small fortune.
If there is one
footballer that has most Spurs fans split, then it's big Tom Huddleston. There
is no doubting the boy's ability with the ball. Left foot, right foot, he can
put the ball on a six pence; and his shooting isn't bad either. Older Spurs
fans see Hoddle esque qualities in the player- abilities that you rarely see
these days and you could say that the Hudd is an old school footballer playing
his trade in the modern game.
Football FanCast guest columnist Gareth Symonds feels it is time that UEFA
imposed heavy sanctions in order to prevent clubs making illegal approaches for
players.
It is a
disease that has spread into the modern game and one that is continually
condoned by UEFA. The tapping up of players boils my blood and whilst it is
commonly rife in Europe it is has infiltrated its way onto our shores; and like
Gary Lineker's tan has no intention of fading away.
Football FanCast guest columnist Cliff
Morgan wonders whether the desire to surpass Liverpool's 19 League
titles is what is firing the belly within Sir Alex Ferguson.
Where does Sir
Alex Ferguson rank among the greats of English football? Sir Matt Busby, Bill
Shankly and Bob Paisley - all great managers, but surely being a part of the modern
day era must set him apart, I mean football has evolved so much in the last
20yrs and become harder, more competitive and comes with greater pressures.
Football FanCast columnist Jim McKendry looks south of the border at
Arsenal football club and feels the club is in very safe hands under Wenger and
has challenged his critics, to name the players who they think Arsene should bring
in to guarantee success.
Arsene
Wenger has not had shall we say a pleasant last few months in English football.
A combination of injuries, poor results and now player unrest has constituted
the bitterest of pills that will be fully digested when the Frenchman looks at
pictures of Sir Alex Ferguson or Avram Grant holding aloft a Premier League trophy.
Make no mistake about it should have been Arsenal's - the outstanding team for
two thirds of the season and I'm sure that the ‘professor' is just at pains to work out how it happened.
Football FanCast columnist Rob Swan looks ahead to the climax of the season's title race and feels it will be totally unjust for United to lose out to Chelsea.
A few months ago, not many would have predicted such a close
finale to this season's Premier League. At one stage outsiders Arsenal appeared
on course to upset the odds, but expended all their energy too prematurely,
faltered and eventually derailed. Manchester United duly capitalised, snatching
the baton off Arsene Wenger's side, but several slips allowed Chelsea to sneak back into contention. Now
into the home straight, meters away from breaking the finishing tape, a photo-finish
might be the only way to separate the two sides this weekend.