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James Viney

James Viney has written 2 posts for Footballing World

Capello Can’t Go Wrong: The ‘Cushiest Job’ In Football

It has been argued by many that the job as the manager of the England football team is the ‘toughest job’ in football; it has come to be regarded as a thankless task – it is, they say, the ‘impossible job’.
Or, at least, this is how it may seem when one recalls the countless years […]

From Wigan to Accra: The Welcome Break of the African Cup of Nations

As the noted modern poet Rodney Marsh (ex-QPR and Manchester City) once famously observed, English football is, “Grey football, played by grey players on grey days”.
Now, it is a moot point whether this has always been the case but a wonderful antidote to the ‘grey’, stodgy and flavourless fare currently being served up on the […]