All posts tagged "Premium"
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Features
/ 13 years agoBOOZE, BIRDS AND A FIGHT EVERY WEEK
CHRIS DUNLAVY meets Roy McDonough, sent off 22 times in his career, after rejection cost him his chance of a top...
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Features
/ 13 years agoReasons to be thankful for Rafa
WALSH'S WORLD - Kristian walsh looks at the legacy of rafa benitez LIVERPOOL fans have a lot to thank Rafael Benítez for....
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoTHE MANAGER KNOWS ALL, FANS KNOW F*** ALL!
Managers come in for a lot of stick but PAUL CANTWELL says supporters get their fair share of flak as well...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoPEDIGREE PIGS IN A POKE…AND OTHER KINDS
CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some unseen big-money buys that came good...and some that didn’t WHEN Steve Kean announced that he hadn’t even...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoTHE BIG DEBATE… CRISIS CLUB OR FRONT RUNNER
CAN a football club be in crisis with just 90 minutes of the season on the clock? It seems so if...
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Features
/ 13 years agoGIVE US JUSTICE FOR HEYSEL!
It’s a terrace shout too often aired just to score points but what are the facts of the matter? OLIVER KAY...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWELCOME TO LATE TACKLE
I’VE written before about something I call ‘the football bubble’. It’s a simple concept – inside it anything goes. People take...
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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoCHAMPION WHEEZERS OF WORLD
CHRIS DUNLAVY picks his top Xl from those who liked more than the occasional puff behind the bike sheds SMOKING, as...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoOUCH! NOW THAT WAS A SENDING-OFF!
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the red cards that carried not the slightest hint of rough justice IF you’re going to get...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoPSG-LEE
It’s not just Manchester City that are being bankrolled to success. DECLAN OLLEY reckons it’s only a matter of time until...
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Features
/ 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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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoOH MAN, I LOVE AVB
Villas-Boas divides opinions – is he a football genius or a one-season wonder? For JACK HOWES there’s no fence-sitting. In fact,...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoTHE ITALIAN JOB
ALAN JOHNSON remembers a competition that allowed some of England’s lower league clubs to pit their wits against the fancy foreigners...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoSTAR SIGNINGS THAT CRASHED TO EARTH
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at some of the joyful early season arrivals who proved to be miserable flops instead Emerson Kevin Davies...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoPITCHING IN FOR FOOTBALL
The Stone Roses and the Euros made this a great summer for an older generation of footie fans who love music...
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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWIN, LOSE OR SNORE
Critics of Spain’s tika-taka style have branded it boring. For ALEX KEBLE that’s tantamount to blasphemy… SO here are the stats:...
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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWelcome to late tackle
TEAM GB’s predictable penalty shoot-out exit from the men’s football at the Olympic Games seemed to sneak under the radar as...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoYOU CAN ALL TWITTER ON WITHOUT ME
For many, Twitter has become as much of a part of football as a dodgy pie and a fat bloke in...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoYOU CALLED IT WHAT EXACTLY?
MARTIN ROBERTS on a naming rights deal with a difference “WHERE the heck’s Parkhouse, mate?” It was an all-too-common cry...
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Features
/ 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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Features
/ 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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World
/ 13 years agoROY IS THE GHOST OF FOOTBALL PAST
Where did it all go wrong for Hodgson’s heroes? GARETH ROBERTS rakes over the ashes of England’s latest collapse at a...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoPRAISE FOR THE UNSUNG HEROES
In an age where it seems everyone is a footie expert, DECLAN OLLEY was encouraged to see some unknown names take...
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Features
/ 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,...
