Archive for the ‘Premier League’ Category
Monday, August 29th, 2011
You can’t help but think you’ve been dragged into some kind of peculiar alternate dimension, can you? When in Odin’s eye did both Manchester clubs look so good? When, at only game three of the season, have both Manchester clubs looked so aggressively brilliant and skilled? When, has a hair transplant ever looked at good as Wayne Rooney’s? Stephen Ireland tried it at Manchester City and obviously the Sheikh Mansour view was that it wasn’t classy enough so he ended up at Aston Villa. It was a sign.
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
Tottenham Hotspur and Wales Winger Gareth Bale has admitted that he would have ‘no qualms’ about moving abroad if the lure of a Real Madrid or Barcelona came about. Wales have not qualified for a World Cup finals since the days of legendary Leeds and Juventus forward John Charles – when he led his nation to the quarter finals of the 1958 tournament, only to lose to a single goal against Brazil. Bale is Wales’ greatest talent since the emergence of Ryan Giggs nearly two decades ago and has been unplayable at times this season.
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
A record breaking weekend in the English Premier League again added to claims that the competition is the most exciting in European football.
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
There’s something brilliant about watching deadline day unfold from a (relatively) neutral point of view, the chaos and excitement. Not knowing just exactly what’s going to unfold, if the domino effect of transfers will all work out according to plan. Or if someone will throw a hissy fit and ruin it for everyone. This window however everything did go according to plan (depending on your opinion on Andy Carroll for 35 million pounds that is). Chelsea strengthened (massively), City strengthened and Liverpool did as well, and they all spent big.
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Rumours of a move for Fernando Torres to Chelsea have been around for years, so news that Roman Abramovich is willing to stump up a reported £40m for ‘El Nino’ is no big surprise. But it is a mark of just how far the Spaniards’ stock has fallen when people start questioning the money involved in this saga.
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
World Cup Statistics can reveal that 1966 World Cup winners England are in pole position to host the 2018 World Cup finals – 52 years after hosting their last World Cup. The one time winners chance of hosting the World Cup in eight years time will be boosted by the publication tomorrow of technical reports, by FIFA, which will categorise the bid as a low legal risk with a high potential financial return. However, it isn’t all rosy for England as it is also expected to highlight four contractual areas where government guarantees are not currently met.
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
This assessment comes in three parts: vs. Germany; the tournament as a whole; and the future. As with my last post, I am very keen to get a discussion going at the bottom of the article. As I have experienced this afternoon, everyone has an opinion on what has happened and where to go – there is no right answer, so have a read of what I think and then I want to see what the World Cup Statistic’s readers think. We’ve been accustomed to England Football Jokes over the years, now we want to know what you think!
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Tags: Capello, Doron, England, Rooney, SA 2010, South Africa 2010, WC 2010, World Cup 2010
Posted in Managers, Match Report, Opinion, Players, Premier League, South Africa 2010, World Cup | 8 Comments »
Monday, June 21st, 2010
That weekend felt draining. I don’t think I’ve experienced so much footballing information in such a short space of time. Saturday started with the England hangover. Everyone has their own opinion as to why England continued their poor form with another failure. England fans weren’t the only ones feeling angry. The USA’s fans awoke to their own frustrations. They felt, quite rightly, that their side had been denied a 3-2 victory against Slovenia which would have capped an excellent turnaround having been two goals behind. Maurice Edu’s late goal was harshly ruled out by the referee.
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Tags: America, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Capello, Denmark, Domenech, Doron, Duverne, England, Evra, France, Ghana, Holland, Italy, Ivory coast, Japan, Lampard, Lizarazu, New Zealand, Paraguay, SA 2010, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa 2010, Terry, USA, WC 2010, World Cup, World Cup 2010
Posted in Africa, Europe, Ligue 1, Managers, Match Report, Opinion, Players, Premier League, Reviews, South Africa 2010, South America, World Cup | 3 Comments »
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
As the World Cup started I agreed on a (slightly bold and rushed) statement with my housemate: ‘if England don’t win the World Cup it’ll be down to the players and not the coach’ – that statement doesn’t stand so true anymore. After the USA game I attacked the England players individually with some player ratings. Post-Algeria I don’t see any point to individual assessment. Everyone was poor. The team must be examined as just that – a team.
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Tags: Capello, Doron, England, Fabio Capello, Rooney, SA 2010, South Africa 2010, WC 2010, World Cup, World Cup 2010
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
So England drew and collectively, a country groaned. Surprisingly the spark amongst the rubbish on show was Emile Heskey and not Wayne Rooney. I will argue that Heskey should not start England’s next game. I am no scout, I know very little about how Algeria play and therefore I am not considering that they may have a 4ft centre back who Heskey would dominate. I am writing this purely as an England fan who wants to see the England team do as well as possible and believes that in order to achieve this, Wayne Rooney is central to English plans.
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Tags: Doron, Emile Heskey, England, Heskey, Rooney, SA 2010, South Africa 2010, Wayne Rooney, WC 2010, World Cup
Posted in Opinion, Players, Premier League, South Africa 2010, World Cup | 4 Comments »
