PLANE SAILING: HOW TO CHOOSE ENGLAND’S WORLD CUP SQUAD
By Leigh Sanders
After the latest round of international friendlies last week the time has come where around thirty men from thirty-two nations (nine hundred and sixty in total) begin to feel those pre-World Cup jitters.
Every tackle in training becomes frightening, every tweak you feel getting out of bed or up off the sofa leads to [...]
DREAM MATCH UPS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Nothing beats a heated rivalry in sports. And so it is with soccer. With this thought firmly entrenched deep within our empty minds, we offer our dream match ups:
1) England vs. Italy - Possibly the two greatest footballing societies in Europe and among the most passionate in the world. That most of the success has [...]
THE FALL OF OXFORD UNITED
By Leigh Sanders
This weekend saw a huge sporting bonanza live on Sky Sports. The football section of the feast was particularly mouth-watering.
Saturday lunchtime saw the top of the table Premier League clash between Chelsea and Manchester City featuring the tantalising John Terry v Wayne Bridge saga at Stamford Bridge live on Sky Sports 1. Following [...]
ARSENAL NEEDS TO LEARN THE ART OF DEFENSE
By Leigh Sanders
Defense. It’s considered by many to be the most important element of football.
You can score as many goals as you like but if you can’t keep them out of your net then you’ll be no better than the teams losing 1-0 and 2-1 every week. You’ll both end up getting relegated.
It is a [...]
PREMIER LEAGUE PROPOSALS SPELL FINANCIAL CONUNDRUM
By Leigh Sanders
My first ever blog for this fine specimen of a website was looking at one of the biggest financial hotspots in football – the transfer window. I compared the difference between those at the top and bottom of the footballing foodchain and at the amounts of money that would be splashed out on [...]
ANCIENT RIVALS TO BATTLE ONCE MORE
By Leigh Sanders
Yesterday European media descended on Polish capital Warsaw for the drawing of the qualification groups for the 2012 European Championships to be co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine.
It is an exciting time for many fans as plans for forthcoming sojourns can be conjured up and across the continent hopes are raised towards an appearance [...]
MANAGERIAL MADNESS
By Leigh Sanders
This morning Peterborough United sacked manager Mark Cooper after only two months in charge. They are rock bottom in the Championship, six points off second-bottom Plymouth Argyle and eleven points off safety.
But how much of this is his fault? After all, he’s only been in charge for eight weeks, sixty-two days, a mere [...]
DAVID BECKHAM: THE VICTIM OF ANOTHER FOLLY
Being famous has a lot of advantages. You get a lot of free stuff. You make good money. In addition to an above average salary, the modeling stuff on the side provides additional income too.
Of course it has its disadvantages as well. Obsessive fans, hardly to no privacy, never get to go anywhere without a [...]
BEING A REF IS A TOUGH JOB!
Being a referee can be a tough job sometimes. You can be called names by both parties’ fans. One ‘wrong’ decision and you can be sure to have angry fans call you up and threaten you and your family.
Sometimes the job of the referee is tough because the game is so far away from them [...]
