Archive for November, 2009
Tyrone Mears, the eternal optimist
Tyrone Mears is obviously a glass half full kind of guy. Pope and Swift know this because, last week, the Burnley defender and his savvy PR company released a statement regarding his eligibility to play for England. The confusion surrounds Mears having already represented Jamaica in a friendly earlier this year. All well and good, you might think, apart [...]
Separated at birth – Dave and Ray
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Another Saturday, another Sky Sports Soccer Saturday. The usual pre-match build-up was this week illuminated by the effervescent Dave Bassett, former Wimbledon and Leicester manager talking about the slow demise of Rafa amongst other things. A female housemate, by the name of Posh Parper, decides to join in my viewing; not a great fan of [...]
The Secret Diary of Erik Edman Aged 31 1/4
Sunday 22nd June – Today I go back to my old club, Totten-ham Hot-spur, to play against some of my old teammates. When I came to Londons in 2004, it was great for me and I had a great lot of game playing at left full back. I score, how they say, a ’screamer’ against [...]
I would do exactly the same as Henry
Now, calm down and before you go and answer The Daily Mail survey entitled ‘Have you lost all respect for Thierry Henry?’ just take a minute and think. There is an easy way of resolving all this. Take last night’s World Cup qualifier and replace Ireland with, let’s say, Germany. Then replace France with England. One [...]
Luck of the Irish….apparently not
Well that is what they say isn’t it. ‘Oh, there you go, it’s the luck of the Irish.’ Well, if the World Cup qualifier between the Republic of Ireland and France has proved anything then it is that the Irish are most certainly not lucky.
In the first leg, Ireland had chances cleared off the line [...]
Separated at birth: Silent Stan and Ted Glen
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Soon to be Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke has a reputation as being something of a recluse. The American billionaire sports fan has even been given his own moniker ‘Silent Stan’ for the fact that he never speaks to the press.
Pope and Swift think they know what ol’ Stan is hiding. We reckon that the Missouri-born businessman is [...]
Gordon goes for mothers over Messi
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Smiling at Wembley with two internationally renowned footballers, Gordon Brown was always going to be delighted to give his backing and £5 million of government money to the 2018 World Cup bid. In the past few days, however, it has emerged that England’s bid has been jeopardised by a lack of funds. The £5 million Brown promised [...]
Haye proves more than his own doubters wrong
There are many reasons why Pope and myself enjoy all this rambling and ranting about sport. One of them is that it’s much better than writing essays. Another is that we have read and been inspired by many past and present sports journalists, none more so than Simon Barnes of The Times. We like the bloke so much [...]
You’ll never be as good as your Dad….well I guess we’ll never know now will we
Peterborough United have parted company with manager Darren Ferguson with the club sat at the bottom of the Championship table. Another one bites the dust eh? Well not quite.
Ferguson has taken The Posh from League Two to the Championship in two seasons and has unearthed some startling talent from non-league football along the way, including [...]
It’s simple, tries win tests
The Sunday newspapers will tell of admirable English and Welsh performances but the reality is that there remains a huge gulf between the Southern Hemisphere’s Big Three and England and Wales. Yesterday comparatively weak Australia and New Zealand sides were there to be put to the sword but were let off after being barked at but not bitten at Twickenham [...]