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• Trap should look to reformed Kenny
  on Mar 26, 2011 in Euro 2012 Football Internationals Ireland
  Almost five years on, the fall-out from Ireland’s humiliation in Nicosia seems to go on. That galling 5-2 hammering at the hands of Cyprus signaled the end of the international road for three of the starters that night. Clinton Morrison has onl...
• Il Fenomeno tributes sadly lacking
  on Mar 13, 2011 in AC Milan Barcelona Football Ronaldo
  Valentine’s Day 2011 saw an announcement anticipated but met with sorrow around the football world and mourned with open grief in his native Brazil. Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima stated at a hastily arranged press conference in Sao Paolo tha...
• The Sky falls down on Gray and Keys
  on Feb 5, 2011 in Football Sky Television
  The two totems of Sky Sports football coverage have left the building. While Andy Gray had his £1.7 million per-annum contract terminated by Sky, partner-in-crime Richard Keys resigned from his post as the station’s main anchor. It seemed like...
• Revival of the Rossoneri
  on Jan 3, 2011 in AC Milan Football Serie A
  Back in the 1990s, it was fair to say we on the west of Europe had something of a love affair with Il Calico. Serie A was the most glamorous league in the world. Our appetite for Italian football was satisfied by Network Two’s highlights show...
• Arsenal change Carling Cup approach
  on Oct 26, 2010 in Arsenal Carling Cup Football
      This year’s Carling Cup third round threw up a more than its fair share of surprises. Liverpool lost to League Two Northampton Town on penalties in front of the Kop, neighbours Everton suffered a slightly-less humiliating exit away t...
• Ripe for picking
  on Sep 27, 2010 in Football
  There really is nowhere to hide for poor, helpless Scunthorpe.  Vultures the length and breadth of the United Kingdom, predators are lying in the overgrowth, waiting to pounce on Scunny’s crown jewels. With giants Glasgow Celtic from the north of...
• More false dawns on the horizon?
  on Sep 4, 2010 in Benitez Europa League Football Hodgson Liverpool Premier League
  For man who prides himself on doing his job with the minimum of fuss, the first two months of Roy Hodgson’s reign as Liverpool manager have been a flurry of activity. Whilst the blame for the boardroom wrangling cannot be laid at the door of t...
• Rovers steamroll Bray in Tallaght rout
  on Aug 22, 2010 in Football League of Ireland Shamrock Rovers
  Shamrock Rovers 4-1 Bray Wanderers  To be withdrawn before half-time is usually the ultimate humiliation for a footballer.  He is not given the opportunity to defend  his lame display of the past 45 minutes in the confines of the dressing roo...
• McBoro have edge in race for promotion to Promised Land
  on Aug 9, 2010 in Championship Football Middlesbrough
  An accusation one could not level at the NPower Championship, is that it is predictable. Whilst last season’s top two, in Newcastle and West Brom, were streets ahead of the field, the reminder of the division was a topsy-turvy mix of teams do...
• World Cup 2010: Team of the tournament
  on Jul 19, 2010 in Football Internationals World Cup
  So that’s it for another four years. And after a  month of infighting, dancing, tears of joy and sorrow, the time has come to choose my team of the tournament. Too often, these types of teams are picked in a lop-sided manner (I’m looking...