Editorials

Euro 2008 is just one week away and as an Englishman I am feeling a mixture of excitement, anger and jealousy. I am excited because the tournament promises to be a showcase for the very best that football has to offer, I am angry because England won’t be there and I am jealous because I […]

Football lovers around Europe and the rest of the world – listen up! It’s time to start planning. Maybe it’s time to invest in that 40 inch flat screen TV just about now. Consider where to send your non sport-loving girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband on a three-week holiday. Make sure to make room in the refrigerator for cold […]

I don’t know any FC Twente fans. If I did, I would be perfectly happy to offer a shoulder for them to cry on. After the joys of a fourth placed finish in the Eredivisie, the fans must have been dreaming about their sortie into the Champions League qualifiers for the first time in their […]

It was widely reported yesterday that when Jose Mourinho officially takes the reins at Inter he will ask club president Massimo Moratti to launch an audacious transfer bid for three of his former Chelsea players.It is believed that Mourinho, who is likely to have a transfer fund of around sixty million pounds, is targeting Frank […]

In just a few days time the great and the good of European football will be battling it out in Switzerland and Austria fighting for the title of the best team in Europe.Meanwhile, last night at Wembley, England played against the USA in the third game of Fabio Capello’s revolution in the hope that they […]

Whilst the speculation and arguments continue about who is or who isn’t going to get the Chelsea manager’s job, one job at the top of the English Premiership is still in safe hands.Sir Alex Ferguson has said that he won’t be managing Manchester United for any more than three further years. He says he will […]

Something very sad happened to me this morning. I was reading the sports pages and saw stories about England’s forthcoming friendly match with the USA tomorrow night and realised that I didn’t care. I’m not even one hundred percent sure that I’ll bother watching it.I am a patriotic man and I love football. I am […]

Mourinho. Ancelotti. Lippi. Hiddink. Rijkaard.Whenever a manager at a big club is fired, the rumour mill goes into overdrive and, after having dusted off their list of top managers open to a move (sometimes they’ll pull out the ‘young managers with a bright future’ list as well), they start linking managers randomly to the position […]

Football really can be a despicable, cut-throat business. At the top of the list of clubs living up to that stereotype come Champions League and Premier League runners-up Chelsea.Just a few days ago, Chairman Bruce Buck was quoted as saying, “We have very high expectations at Chelsea and a couple of second place finishes is […]

In the aftermath of another big game being decided in a penalty shootout, I think it is about time to introduce an alternative involving more skills and less chance. Despite its appeal for drama and excitement, and regardless of the experience and skills of the players, a penalty shootout is merely a series of random […]