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FATE OF A NATION ... ref Martin Hansson refuses to listen as the Irish complain about Henry's cheating I DON'T blame Thierry Henry for his grotesque handball against the Republic of Ireland. I don't blame the referee, either,...
There is a standard punishment meted out for disreputable behaviour in football these days: a slap on the wrist. It is what Diego Maradona received for abusing journalists after Argentina qualified for the World Cup,...
There is a standard punishment meted out for disreputable behaviour in football these days: a slap on the wrist. It is what Diego Maradona received for abusing journalists after Argentina qualified for the World Cup,...
RAUL Blanco thought his chances of being involved in a World Cup had long slipped past him. Despite a wonderful career as a club coach and a heavy involvement with the Socceroos as an assistant and in a caretaker head coach...
“Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team - that goes to show how highly I have always rated him. He would have been one of the first players I’d have bought, given the chance”...
I like El Tel! The ex England manager (Terry Venables if you are too young to know who El Tel is!) says that James Milner can make the 2010 World Cup and compares him to pocket dynamo Alan Ball. believes James Milner could be...
Roy Hodgson on managing levels of expectation at Fulham and his position as a potential successor to Fabio Capello Roy Hodgson has just finished the Philip Roth novella Indignation , the title of which might describe the...
England's 2018 World Cup bid chairman Lord Triesman is now defending his leadership of the crisis campaign by claiming FIFA expect national association bosses to lead the bids. His aim was to give a fresh start to an England...
Milner can be a real thriller JAMES MILNER could turn out to be Fabio Capello's very own Alan Ball. I am not suggesting for one second the Villa ace should be compared with one of England's 1966 World Cup legends. But there is...
As the eyes of the footballing world switch to the glittering international events, no not the friendlies, that are the World Cup Play-offs to see just who will take final spots in the world’s biggest football tournament, so we...
