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/ 13 years agoIs it time to say goodbye to the League Cup?
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS INTERNATIONAL breaks just weeks into the new campaign make little sense. But, if you’re like me and put...
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/ 13 years agoIS BRENDAN GETTING RODGERED
GARETH ROBERTS on more baffling boardroom battles at Anfield IT WAS supposed to be the wind of change that Liverpool needed...
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/ 13 years agoCHEER UP LAWRO!
IF you’ve watched Match Of The Day, you’ve surely asked yourself the question: Why is Mark Lawrenson still on there? If...
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/ 13 years agoFAIR PLAY IS NOT FAIR ENOUGH
MATTHEW BAZELL – author of Theatre of Silence: The Lost Soul of Football – believes UEFA’s cure-all ruling doesn’t go far...
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/ 13 years agoGIVE THE REFEREE A CHANCE
A.E. GREB says it’s time to blow the whistle on the blame culture surrounding football officials “REEFFF?!” wailed the prone forward...
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/ 13 years agoLAMBERT WAS A VERY MOVE S-MART FOR VILLA
JAMES LEYFIELD is predicting a welcome return to the days of O'Neill under the new boss at Villa Park Paul Lambert...
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/ 13 years agoFAREWELL FRIENDLIES – YOU WON’T BE MISSED
GARETH ROBERTS is glad the real action is back IT’S here. The big kick off. And thank goodness for that. Why?...
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/ 13 years agoFERGIE’S GLAZER GAFFE WAS AN OLYMPIC-SIZED MISTAKE
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS WITH all the fuss surrounding the Olympic Games, it was a good time to bury bad news –...
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/ 13 years agoSELDOM HAS A CAMERA BEEN SO CANDID
There’s been umpteen attempts at football documentaries but few have hit the mark like The Four Year Plan, directed by Mat...
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/ 13 years agoSTURRIDGE GETS THE ABUSE FLOWING AGAIN
WALSH’S WORLD KRISTIAN WALSH LOOKS AT THE OLYMPIC FOOTBALL IF “Inspire a Generation” was the official motto of London’s Olympic Games,...
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/ 13 years agoLIGHT FANTASTIC
Midweek matches under the lights are now the stuff of legend. But it wasn’t always the case. PAUL BROWN looks back at...
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/ 13 years agoLONG BALL PUT US BACK 30 YEARS
With TERRY CURRAN’S autobiography about to hit the shelves, KEITH MENARY met the Yorkshire maverick to talk old managers, new managers,...
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/ 13 years agoTHIS COULD HAVE BEEN THE TEAM OF THE COUNTRY
CHRIS DUNLAVY says that Yugoslavia deserve their place alongside Brazil, Hungary, Holland and Spain ASKED to name a great international side,...
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/ 13 years agoRonaldo deserves to be a winner
WALSH'S WORLD KRISTIAN WALSH FEELS SOME SYMPATHY CRISTIANO RONALDO took one brief glance at Petr Cech prone on the floor for...
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/ 13 years agoGive us a break, for pity’s sake
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS SO here we are again, talking about winter in summer. As our chugging, red-faced footballers – those that...
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/ 13 years agoMAGIC OF THE CUP GOES MISSING AT WEMBLEY
Budweiser’s involvement with Non-League Wembley FC leaves a sour taste in the mouth for NEIL BELLIS WHEN drinks company Budweiser began...
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/ 13 years agoVision of Udinese comes to Wat ford
CHRIS DUNLAVY THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE PAPER COLUMNIST IT must be crap being a Watford fan. Your glory days were 20 years...
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/ 13 years agoCAMERA, ACTION! HAWK-EYE IN HAMPSHIRE
Video refs, goal-line technology…it’s a never-ending debate. But what about watching a match where it’s actually in place? A. E. GREB...
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/ 13 years agoTHE INSIDE SECRETS THAT MAKE BARCA GREAT
PAUL GRECH gets the low-down on the Barca youth production line that is the envy of the world THERE are few...
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/ 13 years agoBUNNY BOUNCES BACK TO EUROPE
ANTHONY BUNN on The Potters’ return to the Continent after a 37-year absence EASYJET AND RYANAIR, OR ANYONE WHO'LL TAKE US...
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/ 13 years agoGAG THE GAFFERS GUFF
PATRICK JOHN wants a little less conversation and a little more action on Saturday nights… Mike Phelan I’LL hold my hands...
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/ 13 years agoThey think it’s all r-over… It is now (Just like the fans said it would be)
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS BLACKBURN fans have got every right to feel robbed, resentful and wronged right now – and not only because...
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/ 13 years agoSub goalies flap like Icarus near the sun
CHRIS DUNLAVY THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE PAPER COLUMNIST WHAT’S killing football? Some say diving. Others say money. Quite a lot say Sky....
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/ 13 years agoGEORGIANS ON THE MIND AT MAN CITY
It hasn’t always been big bucks and glory with foreign players in the blue half of Manchester. IAIN THOMSON looks at...
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/ 13 years agoTV cash in danger of wrecking Euros
Walsh. s world KRISTIAN WALSH HAS A NEW VISION FOR TELLY WHEN Marco van Basten lifted Russia’s ball into the air,...
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/ 13 years agoSaturday blackout makes no sense
WALSH'S WORLD-KRISTIAN WALSH HAS A NEW VISION FOR TELLY SSATURDAY afternoon, 2.45pm. The vestiges of early-afternoon drinking slowly trickle down nervous...
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/ 13 years agoWHO’S PLAYING WITH WHO?
THE WAGS get a bad name generally and it’s easy to see why with their Imelda Marcos-style shopping sprees and desperation...
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/ 13 years agoStars of the future who fell to earth
CHRIS DUNLAVY-THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE PAPER COLUMNIST PICKING a star of the future can be embarrassing. Remember when everyone thought John Bostock...
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/ 13 years agoKnow-nothing owners should stay in their hospitality boxes
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS IMAGINE walking into a garage, taking the spanner from a mechanic’s hand and saying ‘hang on, mate –...
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/ 14 years agoTaking back the game?
RANTS Gareth Roberts IT’S ironic that football as we know it was founded by public schoolboys. What is widely regarded as...
