May 2011
6 posts
Danish Dynamite and Welsh Wonders - Frank Arnesen...
Swansea City’s promotion to the Premier League.
Proud Englishmen, look away now. Your prized haven of corruption, vanity and self pity has been infiltrated. The festering turd of a football competition that makes you so proud to be British has been invaded by a Welsh football team - a proper football team.
This, of course, has nothing to do with nationalism. I have no pretentiously...
United's "reality" and new developments with...
Manuel Neuer’s ever more confusing transfer to FC Bayern.
After the Suedkurve protests at the Allianz Arena, the little girl at the charity event who, with her adorably Schalke blue eyes, asked him if he was going to FC Bayern, and being slapped in the face during the celebrations of the Pokal Final win over MSV Duisburg, you could forgive Manuel Neuer for just wanting to sidle unnoticed...
Tales of Relegation: Hammers hell and Germany's...
West Ham’s relegation, and who’s to blame.
And so darkness descends once again, as an all too familiar sense of disappointment, despair and impending doom engulfs Upton Park. West Ham fans, you might say, have had quite enough excitement in the last ten years, what with two relegations, a promotion, an FA Cup Final defeat, a £35million fine, a collapsed Icelandic bank and a couple of...
International retirement and pubescent Germans.
Germany at the Under 17 European Championships.
It is European international football’s most intense and documented rivalry. From the unlikely World Cup Final victory of 1974 which denied the Total Football dream eleven of Cruijff and Neeskens their ultimate dream, to the foulmouthed – in more ways than one – histrionics of Frank Rijkaard and Rudi Voeller in 1990, Germany versus the Netherlands...
QPR, Augsburg and the differing stories of the...
Queens Park Rangers’ promotion and punishment.
For all the legal assurances that this would be a definitive promotion, there remained something inherently uncomfortable about watching QPR celebrate their long awaited return to the Premier League this weekend. For the fans of one of London’s proudest clubs, this was a day to be treated with joyous rapture, and who could blame them? For...
An appeal to Nuri Sahin and the goal line...
Why Nuri Sahin shouldn’t go to Real Madrid.
The word on the street – or in the sports papers, depending on whether you’re a poet or not – is that Borussia Dortmund’s young Turkish midfield prodigy Nuri Sahin may shortly be becoming Real Madrid’s young Turkish midfield prodigy Nuri Sahin. The young man who has amazed fans in the Ruhrgebiet during the last few seasons, led...
