Thursday, 27 January 2011
You Are Not A Loan
We’ve all heard the myth. That deep in an underground bunker, somewhere beneath Richard Keys’s house, Sky took a timeless sport, the most popular sport on the planet, covered it in bells and whistles and whooshing logos and created football in 1992. They made Sundays ‘Super’ too.
Obsessed as they are with the concept of ‘breaking news’, it came as no surprise that the Sky behemoth has been all over transfer deadline day since its inception in 2002-03 like a fly around the proverbial. Which leads me to what we think about the transfer window.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Sticky Toffee Pudding
His eyes are more powerful than you can ever imagine
It’s been said that David Moyes’s icy stare can see into your soul*. Were he to look into the fibres of most Everton fans, he might find they were trying to keep faith with the man who led the club to Champions League qualifiers in 2005, an FA Cup final in 2009 and is a three-time LMA Manager of the Year to boot. Were he to turn this totally fictional ability onto himself, however, one suspects these past accolades count for little without Moyes feeling that he is achieving more tangible success as his tenure on Merseyside lengthens.
Thursday, 20 January 2011
The Man Who Would Be King
"This is going to be a piece of piss."
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Cut To The Cliche
'Four-Three-what-now?'
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Richard Butcher 1981-2011
There seems something particularly unfair about the fact that, after the Football League’s most romantic of weekends – the Third Round of the FA Cup – tragedy should strike one of its smallest clubs for the second time in less than a year.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
The Cup of Good Hope
'What's up?'
'Bloody Burnley away son, that's what's up'