Monday Miscellany
The Monday Miscellany
Mike Martin on England’s excellent victory over Kazakhstan but has litte respect for the Wembley boo-boys, sees France coach Raymond Domenech hang onto his job, and observed how the preparations for World Cup 2010 are going.
The Monday Miscellany
Mike Martin on England’s improvement, Brazil and Argentina’s plights in South American qualifying, Manchester City’s top four belief, the bumbling coach of the France national side, Raymond Domenech, and how Spain might have supported Andy Murray over local hero Nadal.
The Monday Miscellany
It’s transfer deadline day today. I know, I can hardly stand the excitement either. The problem is, there are not enough surprise transfers any more. Gone are the days when the first thing you knew about a signing was when Ceefax put up a headline, in exactly the right number of letters [...]
The Monday Miscellany
Mike Martin reflects on England’s latest poor showing and Dimitar Berbatov’s even worse behaviour as he attempts to push through a move to Man Utd.
The Monday Miscellany
Sunday was a curious day in the Premier League, as Chelsea played like Manchester Utd, Manchester Utd played like Newcastle and Newcastle played like Chelsea. Chelsea’s performance was the most exciting, signalling a new adventurous approach under the stewardship of Luiz Felipe Scolari, but in one respect Newcastle’s was the most encouraging. By [...]
The Monday Miscellany
Joy unconfined. Sport’s most tedious transfer affair is over, every schoolboy’s favourite slave Cristiano Ronaldo will be playing for Manchester Utd this season. Or at least, using their treatment room, jacuzzi and weights room. Don’t get too pleased, though, the will-he-won’t-he saga will be back for a sequel next summer, and there [...]
The Monday Miscellany
Like all of his team-mates - an alarming number of whom seemed to be Chelsea players past or present - Lilian Thuram did not have a great Euro 2008 but that tournament was in no way representative of the career of one of Europe’s greatest ever defenders. The discovery of a cardiac malformation, similar [...]
The Monday Miscellany
This week’s friendlies have rumbled on in their ponderous, inconsequential way, so how pleasant it was to watch a meaningful game on Saturday between Aston Villa and Odense Boldklub, even if the Danish opposition in the Intertoto Cup ‘Final’ 2nd Leg (there are eleven ‘Finals’, which rather explains why the tournament is being ditched next [...]
