Hamburger SV’s Son Heung Min looks the business, but more importantly he would be a perfect fit for the Villas-Boas project and he carries all the classic credentials of a Levy & Co. buy. At perhaps iro£11m he wouldn’t be for nothing, but you’d have to be a particularly hardened cynic to refuse to believe that his worth could ... Read More »
Welcome to Game week Harrumph. A coveted and hankered after Champions League spot is still on. However, as ever with us, it’s not a straightforward business and there’s very little doubt …this will go down to the wire. Arsenal hit what pundits will call be leaping over themselves to refer to as a fixture pile up. This consists of a ... Read More »
Nothing lasts forever. They teach you that in the SAS, in relation to being tortured. The two games against FC Basel were certainly torturous. There are two obvious approaches to the autopsy. The first is to wade into a blame apportioning exercise. This route is largely lots of finger pointing, shouting about all manner of frequently ill conceived grievances. ... Read More »
FC Benfica away it is. You heard it here last. There was a presser yesterday afternoon that nobody appears to have bothered filming. Wouldn’t it be nice, if in a multimillion pound industry they gave some guy a few quid to hit the ‘record’ button on a camera, eh? Kaboul hasn’t travelled. Andrè believes he will play one more ... Read More »
I’m troubled. No really, I am. I must be, I’m talking to you again. This Clint Dempsey fella has been getting dogs abuse for some considerable time online now. Even when his stock was marginally higher than it is right now, the mood in the Tottenham camp appeared to range from ‘unconvinced’ to ‘begrudging. It now seems that the ... Read More »
Hoodwinkery and flimflammery. Not words I use lightly. But tell me if this remotely stacks up to you. Sky Bet are suggesting that Andrè was backed so significantly in Sunday night after the Everton game that his price to become the next permanent manager of Real Madrid went from 25/ to even money. Of course, the only site to ... Read More »
Football is the gift that does indeed keep on giving. At times it’s bounty is almost without mercy. One such instance is where you get two abhorrent individuals such as Chealsea’s John Terry and newly appointed Sunderland death camp guard manager unprompted, hugging each other. Outside of football, this is equates to Robert Mugabe being photographed in a Kim Jon ... Read More »
All in all, a performance to be proud of. Ideally we’d have dispatched an Everton side missing two of their best players, at The Lane; but the old handicapper had got to us too and in the final analysis a draw, whilst not huge cause of celebration, was probably a fair result and not one to mull over in ... Read More »
Everton indooors. We’re missing two of our best players and so are Everton. So less bed wetting and a little more backbone would go a long way. The players that left the field on Thursday will have been in dire need of gee up. All this ‘my knee hurts’ and ‘I think he caught my ankle’ cobblers needs to ... Read More »
With the shock and awe of our Europa League quarter final tie barely behind us, here comes this weekend’s Premier League card, faster than you can say, ‘Guido Fawkes eats babies three times a day.’ The hysteria surrounding the Bale and Azza injuries was all too inevitable. What grates more is that with such enormous pressure upon us now, ... Read More »
