Good evening. The team picks itself which is to say as Van der Vaart is injured we don’t have to wait for 65+ minutes for Arry to launch Sandro and we get him from the start. A Pathe News Boy and Sandro combo should put the mockers on the Baggies having any crazy plans of ploughing through our middle. And at the risk of championing a man doing good deeds this looks every inch like a great opportunity for Ade to get more goals under his Togoan belt. What of West Brom? Well, they are ticking over quite nicely thanks…
Author: Harry Hotspur
Never was the ‘Hoddle debate’ more intense nor more fractious than in the context of his relationship with the English national side. Away from the more protective environment of White Hart Lane, service with England both as a player and manager exposed Hoddle to scrutiny that was at best rigorous and at worst gratuitously vicious.
Martin Cloake and Adam Powley are quite rightly among other things highly respected authors. This is another reason to appreciate their literary efforts. The pair have teamed up yet again to produce a series of ebooks called Sports Shots.
Good morning. Well done to all who took part in the caption competition and my apologies to Aaron Knell’s missus who was woken up in the small hours by him laughing at the captions. ltrftp won, by the way. The boy with the Chicken Badge allergy himself, SuperLukaNutsAreWe provided a couple of lines to Sky Sports after the Villa game on Monday night. “We needed some fresh blood in our team, Scotty and Manu came in. They are great players. They have improved our squad a lot and you can see that on the pitch. “Now we are in third…
Good afternoon. The player Arry Redschnapps was willing to trade in using the Jack & The Beanstalk Business Model for ‘some players’ was at the centre of a full on man hug explosion pitch-side, Monday night. “Luka was fantastic, him and Scott Parker have been outstanding together, I love Luka, I love the way he plays his football and he’s an absolutely top-class professional and a great guy.” The winner of this caption competition wins a copy of my local Chinese take-away menu, The Bird’s Nest. This menu is a veritable tour de force of competitively priced cuisine available for…
Good morning. Interesting times in which we live. Arsenal supremo Aunty Wenger is bleating again which in itself is not unusual, but this time about the fact that Adebayor has a caveat in his loan deal whereby he may not play against Manchester City. Aunty tries to pass this quite standard arrangement off as some sinister tactic that has sent the Premiership into a maelstrom by citing that he allowed both Pennant and Bendtner to play against Arsenal when he loaned them out. He really is an absolute child. He’s like some mentalist in a restaurant who orders the steak,…
Here’s a brief chat I had with Pat Jennings this afternoon. As you may spot the route in to the chat was the McDonalds Grassroots Coaching. But Pat was happy to also talk about Friedel, Gomes and the win against Aston Villa. Triffic. · McDonald’s proudly supports football in Britain’s communities, providing more opportunities for anyone to volunteer and qualify as community coaches plus increasing access to free qualified coaching for youngsters everywhere. · Over the next four years, McDonald’s will continue its work with The FA which aims to help coaches play an even greater role in their local…
Good morning. Immediate thoughts from me are that Aston Villa are not only not very good at playing football but actually looking a bit broken. I never thought Downing or Young were exceptional players but the stock of both has undeniably improved since leaving the depressing slow motion quicksand of Villa Park. I remember writing of Villa a long time ago that they were a bit of a nothingy outfit. A ghost ship occasionally bumping into other sides lifting the odd point off of unsuspecting souls. What a fitting home for J****. So you can only play the lot in…
Good Morning. Stone me. I went to see Alabama 3 last night. Been some fair time since I first saw them and if I left with only one thought it was that their audience these days is a demographic I want no part of. Ever been trapped in a dimly lit public toilet with flatulent geriatric swingers? I say swingers but that implies a frisson of sexual adventure. The last person to lay a hand on the bulk of this lot’s naked flesh was almost certainly a midwife. So to the game. After having a cursory flick through the rest…