August 2011
5 posts
Thomas "Daley" Mueller and Wenger's pride.
Thomas Mueller’s diving.
There are few things that Thomas Mueller isn’t. He is prolific, technically gifted, intelligent, even attractive in his own gangly sort of way. Any man who can bring nerd chic to the football field, complete with knobbly knees and a conk to rival Dustin Hoffman’s, and still retain any sort of sex appeal, is to be admired.
None of these, however,...
ESPN, MOTD and their dreadful, dreadful...
The BBC’s embarassingly smug football coverage.
And so it returns. The self-proclaimed best league in the world. The self proclaimed most exciting league in the world come to that; and most attractive, most popular and most envied. No superlative is beyond the Premier League’s smug self-appreciation, even when it is based on factual error. Smugness oozes from the its public image as...
Mob Hypocrisy and the Bundesliga Model.
Football’s role in the London riots.
“London’s burning with boredom now”, sang The Clash in 1977. And so may it be this weekend, should London’s Premier League clubs go forward with their plan to postpone their opening fixtures on the back of this week’s rioting. After all, how many of those hooded looters that the BBC has so sternly exposed, and the social networking...
Mainz-bashing and Barton the intellectual.
The Bundesliga’s useless seers.
Oh the Bundesliga. How we who are familiar with its ways adore it. How we miss it in the summer, how we bemoan the lack of robotic Magathisms from Lower Saxony and three-day-stubbled hilarity from Dortmund. How we are all anticipating the first kick of the season at Westfalen Stadion this evening, knowing that we have once again a full – save the winter break...
Why Klinsi was right to do it, and Allardyce the...
The heroism of Sam Allardyce.
There are times when you feel that English football has lost it’s way irrevocably; that any shred of reason, consideration and honesty has been shredded from it in a whirlwind of greed filled transfer fees and super injunctions. Thank God, then, for those few soldiers who continue to fight the good fight. Those select few individuals who remain true to their...
