Premiership review 21st october, 2006

October 22, 2006

Chelsea v Portsmouth After an early half-chance for Kanu which he headed a few feet over Hilario’s bar, Chelsea quickly took this game by the scruff of the neck and the difference in class between these two teams, separated by only two places in the table, was apparent to all viewers. The triple horned strike […]

Manchester United v FC Copenhagen, 17/10/06, champions league group stage.

October 18, 2006

Manchester United V FC Copenhagen Van de Sar O’SHea Brown Vidic Evra Fletcher Carrick Scholes Ronaldo Saha Rooney (4-3-1-2) With Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville succumbing to injuries during the warm up, Ferguson was forced to reshuffle his pack with only minutes to spare before kick-off. Christiano Ronaldo was moved to the left wing, with […]

England v Macedonia

October 7, 2006

England v Macedonia Though we struggled to find the winning goal in the recent reverse of this fixture (vs Macedonia, A, Sep 6th) our opponents on that occasion never really looked capable of doing more than stifling and containing the England team. Admittedly the Macedonians proved a hard nut to crack but we could and […]

Premiership review for Saturday 9/9/06

September 12, 2006

Everton v Liverpool   Toffees manager  David Moyes opted to continue with the deployment of dependably dangerous Andrew Johnson as the lone striker while his opposite number,  Raphael ‘despicable’ Benitez continued his policy of random selection by starting the match with an awkward looking front pairing of England hero (I never thought I would refer […]

England v Andorra

September 4, 2006

England v Andorra The brief honeymoon period comes abruptly to an end as Mclaren’s England team face their first competitive match since bowing out, without pride, of the World cup finals only 2 months ago in June. The opponents for this encounter, the first stage of a long journey which will hopefully yield European Championship […]

Day 24…the final reckoning….

July 9, 2006

At Italia 90’, it was the combination of Toto Schillachi’s suddenly spectacular goal-scoring abilities and Walter Zenga’s ‘none shall pass’ mentality and keeper skills, which dragged the Azzurri to a respectable showing. On Yankee soil in 94’, it was the efforts of rear-guard stalwart Franco Baresi and the divine ponytail, Baggio, that propelled a largely […]

Day 22–Italy take on the hosts…..

July 8, 2006

Italy V Germany  Before the tournament got underway I hadn’t allowed myself to look further than the potential Semi-Final with Argentina. How-ever since Pekerman blew his team’s chances of delivering football justice, it is now the Krouts who Italy must face in the semi-final. I didn’t see that coming at all. Those words of Gianluca […]

Day 21: The end of the road for England????

July 2, 2006

England V Portugese Ponces Moment of truth…Scolari beat us 4 years ago with Brazil in the 1/4s of world cup…then 2 years later he fucked us again in the 1/4s this time with his grubby little hands controlling Portugal..  Rooney is the only one who can solve England’s problems..  Hargreaves is In..Neville returns at right back….  […]

Day 20- Quarterfinal stage

July 1, 2006

Germany v Argentina  Huge game for the host nation against an opponent they would have rather have avoided at least until the final. Klose, Podolski, Schweinensteiger and of course Emporer Ballack, will all need to be watched very carefully by the Argies, especially in the first ten minutes of the match because it is this […]

Day 19: Brazil v Ghana

July 1, 2006

Day 19–Ghana V Brazil  (Africa v South.America…)  Michael Essien is the main man for Ghana. Muntarro returns..  BRA:>Ronaldo and Adriano start in attack..Ronaldo has scored 14 goals in world cup tournaments,,,equalling the record of Gerd Muller..one more to make that title his own..  The queer quartet. Kaka Ronaldinho Adriano Ronaldo… The loss of Essien is huge for […]