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Why modern football is actually brilliant
Cynicism is good for you. A necessary and highly amusing evolutionary benefit. It protects us from Trojan horses, Ponzi schemes and being the kind of people who like Keith Lemon.
Fear and Loathing in Club Wembley
Without a word to each other, we tucked our hospitality passes under our jumpers. Like we’d just embarked on some exhilarating but illicit bathroom tryst, no one needs to know.
This former Arsenal and Tottenham star may be wrong, but we shouldn't dismiss him
We should be receptive to what is clearly a wider issue, or risk losing a wealth of potential English captains, coaches, managers and pundits, who can all fail just as spectacularly, and be just as analytically insipid if given the the chance.
He must be the right man for Man United, because he so obviously isn't
No one in football would hire David Moyes to replace Sir Alex Ferguson unless they absolutely knew what they were doing.
What to expect from Sky's Biannual Deadline Day Bonanza
If Sky’s overly dramatic Nolan-esque promo is anything to go by, this years festivities will be scored by Hans Zimmer and take place in Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom Universe.
Arsenal are not, nor have ever been in the title race
You have to be in it to win it…before you can win it. Thems the rules. (Thems not actually the rules.) Arsenal haven’t been in it for nearly nine years.
Time Lord Ferguson should've had less say in his Manchester United regeneration
Those big, bulging eyes, like two Cyclopes’ joined at the nose, or the good side of Marty Feldman in a symmetry mirror, staring back at him, terror etched across his eroding Scottishy face.
It is better to have sacked when lost, than never to have sacked at all
The accepted wisdom is that only long-term managerial stability breeds real success. If only the power hungry, finger pyramiding villains of club Chairmanship could see it. But is this true?
The TEN terrible football statues to replace Jacko
This is it. Alas, Michael Jackson Statue, we hardly knew ye. We had some laughs though, didn’t we? I know I did
Tottenham star shows that it is a load of hot air
Footballers are not always the brightest people. We’ve known this for some time.
Thiago, Higuain and the rise of the Transfer Muppet.
Transfer Muppet: One who enjoys the fantasy football excitement of potential transfers and new signings over the joy of the game itself.
Why the likes of Ryan Giggs and Steven Gerrard are just as deserving?
In 1989 David Cameron believed Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. Now David Cameron believes there is no one more deserving of a knighthood in the United Kingdom than Andy Murray.
Why Syed's Abramovich rant exposed the failings of Sky Sports News
What was intended as a banal smug fest with all the insightful debate of The One Show interviewing Status Quo about a Greatest Hits album, turned into an impassioned attack on the morality of Abramovich’s takeover
The moist noise of Moyes will be deafening. Get used to it.
There’s an odd phenomena that occurs when a word is repeated too often in close proximity. After a while it loses all the values & meaning we’ve attributed to it.
10 Surprising Things We've Learnt from Euro 2012
1. Spain are boring - Despite being told for years that our diminutive Iberian cousins and their cohesive brand of tap dancing show football were the divine epitome of the beautiful game, Spain are now officially, actually boring.