ARSENAL FANS GETTING USED TO LIFE UNDER WENGER Two rash decisions became the defining moments on Sunday at the Emirates and once again exposed why Arsenal have only qualified for the champions League in eleven seasons, failing to win the title in any of them; strategy, tactics, flexibility. I have listened to players who played…
RAFA BENIT-END AT MADRID It’s curtains for Rafa Benitez at Real Madrid, seven months into his tenure at the Bernabeu. While his appointment was a surprise several months ago, his dismissal on the other hand has been a joke. A scheduled press conference by Florentino Perez that had the press waiting for half hour, ended…
ARSENAL TAKE POLE POSITION Watching Arsenal defeat Manchester City yesterday night just confirmed two things. Arsenal FC have the best chance ever to win a league title and Manuel Pellegrini may not be the one to take this City team to its greatest heights. So what would stop Arsenal from claiming their first League title…
THE BETTER ONE LEAVES THE BRIGE: NO MORE EXCUSES I was actually going to post my article yesterday with the title ’Mourinho: The Rolling Contract’ when news broke from Cobham about the sack of one of the greatest managers we would ever see in football. Was it the obvious? Was it the inevitable? I would…
FOOTBALL PLAYS THE VICTIM In 1967, Edson Arantes Des Nascimento, popularly known as Pele flew to Nigeria and stopped the Nigerian civil war for 48hrs. The two factions involved in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous city and…
As I watched Tottenham Hotspurs dominate the North London derby on Sunday, I couldn’t help but notice the array of young talents on display at the Emirates Stadium. To think Dele Alli and Harry Kane among others have only just made their debut in the Barclays Premiership either this season or the previous season is…
CAN THINGS ONLY BECOME CLEARER AT THE BRIDGE? Just When Chelsea delivered their best football of the season in Kiev, just when they played excellently well at Upton Park (even with a man down), the wheels have suddenly fallen off Roman’s chariots again at the bridge! 7 yellow cards, 3 red cards and a…
With Manchester City, United, Arsenal and Chelsea winning this weekend, all eyes now turn to the UEFA Champions League. As we reach the halfway through the group games, there are no easy games for the British contingent, as they all search for Champions League success. season. With Italy threatening English teams in the Champions League…
If any betting company had a list of managerial candidates for the drop at the beginning of the season, none would be stupid enough to include Jose Mourinho With recent events on and off the pitch at the Bridge however, you’ll be daft not to place a bet on Mourinho’s odds now. Chelsea laboured with…
About this time last year, world football focused on an industrial town to the West of Germany; Dortmund. Few months before Borussia Dortmund had won the DFB Pokal Cup (German equivalent of The FA Cup), they had played the previous year’s Champions League final, only narrowly losing to Bayern Munich in extra time, and had…