October 2011
5 posts
Bad English and The FCB Complex.
Why the appropriacy of the word rape is non-negotiable.
Alan Pardew gets a lot of praise these days, doesn’t he? It’s entirely justified, of course. Once again, Pardew has staked his claim to be one of the country’s under-appreciated elite. First he led lowly West Ham to a first FA Cup Final in twenty six years, and now he has taken Newcastle Utd back to the top end of the...
Goldenballs and Bayern's defence
David Beckham…in Paris?
Whether its for jealousy, snobbery or just plain antipathy, there is always going to be someone who really can’t stand David Beckham. Someone absolutely delighted to tear him apart, limb from underwear selling limb. How anyone can approach the man with anything but mild ambivalence, though, is quite incomprehensible. He is exactly what the modern footballer...
Finking time and Rooney's Red.
HSV’s new manager.
There have been plenty of sneers being hurled Frank Arnesen’s way this week. After the Dane finally succeeded in snapping up his “dream candidate” inThorsten Fink, the cynics were pouncing on his words with unadulterated glee. Dream candidate, they said? Really? After all this talk of van Gaal, Stevens and Olsen, now Arnesen says that Thorsten Fink was his dream...
Patriot's Progress: Problems with the National...
The mindless “Stammspieler” debate.
This week, kicker online ran a short feature in which the reader was able to “play the role” of Bundestrainer Jogi Löw, and select between the manager’s alleged 50/50 dilemmas between certain potential first choice players.
The age old debate of two equally, if differently, accomplished players in the same position, is, as indicated by the...
LvG nostalgia and the valiant Jamie Carragher.
The continued absence of Louis van Gaal.
How cruel Frank Arnesen is. To raise our hopes, only to dash them in the blink of an eye. To lighten our hearts with the radiant glow of optimistic anticipation, only to cut us down with excruciating reality moments later.
I speak of course, of the increasingly infamous Dane’s careless admission that among the leading figures on his big black list of...
