Match reports
The Times, Martin Samuel: “If this was a triumph for Jonathan Woodgate, Tottenham and Juande Ramos - who has been at White Hart Lane less than four months - it was a catastrophe for Chelsea’s regime under Avram Grant. There was nothing to suggest that Grant has advanced the club one iota since the [...]
Why Avram Grant must go… I’m not much of an art historian, but had Michelangelo been sacked from the Sistine Chapel gig for being a bit of a prima donna and generally annoying the Catholic hierarchy, I suspect the incumbent Pope wouldn’t have called in...
World Cup 2006: Zidane in danger of fading into the red mist Three days after Fabio Cannavaro lifted Italy’s fourth World Cup in the Berlin Olympiastadion, the planet still chatters incessantly about Zidane’s heartfelt tribute to Yosser Hughes. Statements and denials, interviews with lip-reading experts and some good old-fashioned “He said,...
Boy in Blue: Entering the Fold Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Christopher Ogden, and I was born in 14 BA, which stands for Before Abramovich (I felt that the year of our saviour’s arrival deserves to be recognised as an epoch). In the...
Do players have a right to buy out the last year of their contract? Now that the transfer window is finally closed, it’s probably the best time to discuss a pertinent issue that has always been interjected into the transfer debate in that period. This is the issue of a player’s right to buy...
Football’s Jedi Knights are a grass stain on the game It’s not often one can quote Terry Wogan to illustrate a point about football, so I’ll take the opportunity while I can.
The blarney-spouting bard from Limerick once said that every day, there are thousands of people sitting in front of...