Monday April 30, 2012 at 2:48pm
It’s Roy then – or so it seems. Just when everyone (including this blog – although we were half right, Capello did get the sack ) assumed that Harry Redknapp was stuck on to get the England job, the FA announce they are talking to Hodgson and moreover he is the only man they have approached in connection with the job. The BBC website is – as I type this – reporting that the West Brom Manager is going to be appointed in the next 48 hours. The prospective appointment ....
Monday April 23, 2012 at 5:18pm
If you ever wanted proof of just how hard to predict football was and is then the events at the top end of the Premier League in the last few weeks have shown that just never can tell. When Man City lost to Arsenal the other week it gave Man United an eight point lead, and 20 years of Premier League watching has taught us that Manchester United do not blow eight point leads. It was over and done, then. Manchester City left to wonder what might have been if Carlos hadn’t gone on holiday for....
Tuesday April 17, 2012 at 1:57pm
There is a programme on IT4 at the moment called The Big Match Revisited. Every Saturday Morning it shows old highlights programmes from the early 1980s. It is a fabulous trip down memory lane for those who are old enough to recall the games and a magnificent look at the pre-Premier League age for those that aren’t. The season they are currently showing is 1982/83. Amongst the many differences the programme shows us, both in football - where each week you muddy pitches, players who are any....
Wednesday April 11, 2012 at 1:59pm
With the results over the Easter weekend – and as an aside how nice it was to have top division games on Easter Monday too this year, like old times – I think we can now confidently say that it is now three from five at the bottom of the Premier League. Wolves look to have gone, and joining them will be two teams from Wigan, Blackburn, Bolton and QPR. The Villa fans in the Leisure Leagues office are sweating, but after their draws this weekend they might be just about of trouble. Alt....
Tuesday April 3, 2012 at 5:29pm
It is certainly a strange time in football right now. Not even a month after Fabrice Muamba suffered his terrible cardiac arrest came the terrible news that Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov had acute Leukaemia. Petrov is one of those rare things in football – a player that almost no one has anything bad to say about. This was shown in the genuine affection shown to him by the whole of football, and the emotional scenes at Villa Park, where team mates and crowd united to give him their s....