Archive for April, 2009
Countdown to South Africa 2010
‘We look forward to welcoming you and your guests to the tournament and trust that you enjoy the 2010 FIFA World Cupâ„¢ experience.’
Those were the sweet sounding words of the email that landed in my inbox yesterday, sent to confirm my purchasing of nine tickets for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.
The tickets, for [...]
Davies is anything but Curt
I don’t like to drop names but yesterday I spoke to Curtis Davis. And what a pleasure it was.
The Aston Villa centre back, staying on after training at the club’s plush Bodymoor Heath complex, had kindly offered to anwer the questions of a group of local school children as part of a Barclays end of season event and was hanging [...]
Lions captaincy should be the life of Brian
You could well forgive Brian O’Driscoll for slamming down his pint of Guiness in fury and uttering a few ‘fecks’ in the week or so since it emerged he would not be captaining the British and Irish Lions. The Ireland captain was yesterday officially usurped as the Lions captain by countryman Paul O’Connell as Ian McGeechan announced his [...]
World Snooker Championships – The Bad
Snooker, like all of us, is far from perfect. Fewer events, smaller prize money and dwindling audience numbers have all led World Champion Ronnie O’Sullivan to claim the sport is ‘dying’. A Super 6 format, with six reds, is being pioneered in Sheffield as a faster paced alternative but that won’t stop the death knoll sounding on the sport [...]
Cahill deserves chance to land knockout blow
There are many reasons to be thankful for Everton’s success in the FA Cup semi-final, particularly the fact that it gives David Moyes the chance to win the trophy all his hard work deserves. But, one small matter missed out amongst all the talk of dodgy pitches, dodgy officials, dodgy team selections and dodgy Bulgarians, is that Everton’s progress [...]
Forget Riley, forget the pitch, Fergie has to take the blame
Alex Ferguson is a clever man. He knows his football arguably better than any in the game. So surely then, he will know that Phil Jagielka and Joleon Lescott are arguably the second best defensive partnership in the Premiership behind Fergie’s very own Ferdinand and Vidic. Some may even say that as David Moyes plucked [...]
Boro have lost their heads
Middlesborough may be continually bereft of points, goals and confidence but what they don’t lack in is height. Robert Huth, David Wheater and Emanuel Pogatetz are all in the six foot plus bracket whilst nice boy Chris Riggott and his antithesis Marlon King arn’t small either. You would think that subsequently they may pose something of a goalscoring threat from wide free [...]
World Snooker Championships – The Good
A few weeks back, amongst the drama of the Malaysian Grand Prix, the surprise of Luton Town FC winning a cup final and the more shocking instance of an England cricket one day win, some news emerged that would have a great bearing on us, the sport loving public, without anyone really realising. The announcement that the [...]
Separated at birth: Bobby and Chitty villain
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How nice it was to see Robert Pires, the Premier League’s second favourite Frenchman of all time (Frank Leboeuf was hardly the toughest of competition for second place behind Thierry was he…) still shuffling around tonight as of old. Until, that is, you realise that the gallic galloper bears a striking resemblance to The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang [...]
Forgive me Arsene, I am not worthy
Hands up who thought that Arsenal were going to struggle to make fourth spot this season, and wouldn’t even come close to winning a trophy this year? I admit it, I thought Mr Wenger had been too cautious in the transfer market, not got rid of certain lightweight players and was generally a little delusional. [...]