The following quote was recently sent my way: “It was very hard to do it, it really was, because Roy was such a very, very nice man and full of integrity. But it wasn’t really happening, we weren’t progressing and the crowd was getting restless. They were. But mostly I didn’t feel the tradition was [...]
I see that Rafa Benítez is being criticised for not congratulating Alex Ferguson upon United’s success. After the West Brom game, Rafa said: “I prefer just to say well done to the club, a big club, a good club. Normally you have to be polite and respect the other manager but during the season we [...]
It’s been a stressful week. Frankly, I don’t know how I’ve coped. I’ve had to endure various humiliating insults, which I thought I’d got used to after years of exposing my opinions to world at large. The internet is the insulter’s dream medium, with its faceless warriors, but now it’s spreading into my personal life. [...]
(Irony alert.) It was great this weekend to see so many teams defending set-pieces perfectly with man-marking. Blackburn’s Christopher Samba did a brilliant job against Torres, who is five inches shorter; Newcastle dealt brilliantly with Stoke; and Bolton, Chelsea, Arsenal, Hull and Aston Villa all defended corners and free-kicks to perfection. Over the weekend, not [...]
