Archive for the ‘The beautiful game’ Category

Brentford blogger is from another league

1. DAVID HUNT – Brentford FC
David Hunt isn’t the type of football player who enjoys watching from the sidelines, especially when his team is struggling.
League One side Brentford FC have got just a point from their first four games of the campaign whilst former Leyton Orient and Northampton Town man can only sit and [...]

The death of the 3pm kick off

Every year the Premier League sticks another nail in the coffin of the 3pm Saturday kick off . The 2010/2011 season won’t do anything to address the terminal decline.
A quick glance down the fixtures for August to December sees the Big Four playing an unprecedented number of games at times other than the traditional Saturday [...]

They have to win. It has to be worth it…right?

I have never liked Harry Redknapp and I mean really, really don’t like the man. Therefore since he was appointed as Tottenham manager I haven’t liked Tottenham. But I desperately want them to qualify for the group stage of the Champions League. It will sting a little if they manage to pull it off, but [...]

Team of the Season – The Fantasy test

Here at Pope and Swift we don’t shy away from our predictions and confident blogging. No, we believe in what we write and as such we want to put our recent team of the season to the test. What better way to do so than by using the Fantasy Premier League? And so we have [...]

The 2010/11 Team of the Season

Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls, Pope and Swift present to you the Barclays Premiership team of the season 2010/11. Yes, that’s right the season only starts tomorrow but we are here to tell you who will be the stars of the next 9 months…and they don’t even know it yet. If you’re currently chuckling [...]

Clash of two titans with other priorities

As avid readers of this splendid little blog will know I am a Lincoln City fan and if you follow us on Twitter you will know that Pope is a Leeds United fan (You may actually think we were both Leeds fans the way he tweets on about it). Tonight we will no longer be [...]

Premier League is Europe’s training ground

Come on Arsene it’s time to face up to reality. Cesc is off to Barcelona whether you like it or not. You can either bite the bullet and flog him now while you might be able to get £35m for him or you can play him, in a sulk, for another year and then get [...]

What? The football’s on already?

Weirdly depressing isn’t it? No? Just me then. Yes, I know it’s as strange for me to say as it is for you to read but I am just not enthused about the upcoming football season and ironically I blame the World Cup. Being in South Africa (we went, in case you hadn’t heard….) meant [...]

We could do without the Ex-England international media brigade

There aren’t many negative aspects about a World Cup. But there is something very annoying about the hoards of former England internationals who come out of the woodwork to give their tuppence worth on the 23 man squad, theswerving Adidas ball and the WAG effect in the build up to the world’s greatest football tournament. South Africa 2010 is seemingly [...]

Carra proves Fabio needs to go right back to the drawing board

At 9pm last night, as the England players returned to the pitch at Wembley for the second half of their friendly with Mexico, hopes of a World Cup victory in six weeks time slowly began to ebb away. The feeling coincided with the less than triumphant return of Jamie Carragher, who earnt his first England [...]