That’s it then. One piss pot in the trophy cabinet and a place in the FA Cup Final. This is a Rafaesque style season. Back in Europe next year too. What a fantastic job Dalglish has done! And who scored the goals yesterday? Carroll …
Posted on 15 April 2012.
That’s it then. One piss pot in the trophy cabinet and a place in the FA Cup Final. This is a Rafaesque style season. Back in Europe next year too. What a fantastic job Dalglish has done! And who scored the goals yesterday? Carroll …
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Posted on 14 April 2012.
Just when it looked as if they were pulling themselves out of the shit, QPR decided to let go of the side and slip back into the sewage. Points on the board are crucial at this stage, and a relatively healthy goal difference …
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Posted on 14 April 2012.
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Posted on 14 April 2012.
You only have to look at the money Chelsea splashed out on Fernando Torres to realise that football clubs are drastically unaware of the value of money. Football clubs’ disconnect from reality unsurprisingly leaves football fans up and down the country as the biggest victims. Despite a …
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Posted on 14 April 2012.
So the experiment with all out attack has been consigned to the bin and Allardyce is going back to Plan A – 4-5-1 or 4-3-3 or 4-2-2-1-1 or what other sort of tangled mess the misfitting parts form themselves into. Unless Vaz Te is up top …
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Posted on 13 April 2012.
It’s a long shot I know because of our terrible home form, but we could yet qualify for automatic promotion after Reading’s victory over Southampton. We have to win the last four games but if we do, it isn’t beyond the realms of possibility that…
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Posted on 13 April 2012.
‘I still fight at football,’ says Peter, 43, in hushed tones in a Soho pub. ‘Arsenal last season, for instance. There have been years when I’ve been trying to wind it down – I’m a respectable man – but we were at the Emirates and I’d gone to watch the…
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Posted on 13 April 2012.
Yeah I know it brings back painful memories but it’s been a while since I saw it and the first time I’ve seen the highlights in decent quality.
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Posted on 13 April 2012.
It is a wee bit galling to see the club exploiting the Bobby Moore name to market tickets for the game against Brighton. It is true that, as the play offs approach, there is a parallel with that moment, for the home semifinal leg against Ipswich, when Pardew …
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Posted on 12 April 2012.
Hello? When was this marketing guff produced then? Top of the table clash? If that’s the case, then I’m going to bed with Kiera Knightley tonight, though she looks pretty much like my wife as she lies, mouth open, fast asleep and snoring on the sofa …
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Posted on 12 April 2012.
On this, which would be your birthday. A greater player we’ll never have. R.I.P.
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Posted on 12 April 2012.
Momentum. It is everything in football. Just ask Allardyce! Not so very long ago, QPR and Wigan had no idea where the next win was coming from. Then Liverpool came along and game both teams a shot of confidence. Thirteen crazy minutes against Dalglish’s Dolts…
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Posted on 11 April 2012.
It is well known that Sam Allardyce is a bit of a tech-head and spends hours on his PC trying to grind out the perfect formation and tactics to confuse and pound the opposition into submission. When he isn’t home he…
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Posted on 11 April 2012.
FULHAM are looking at West Ham midfielder George Moncur (the son of…), currently on loan at AFC Wimbledon. Source
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Posted on 10 April 2012.
Credit where credit is due. Southampton have sustained their form all season long and Reading have put together the most amazing charge over the final two thirds of the season. Allradyce is blaming our “home hoodoo” in the most pathetic of styles, trying to hoodwink…
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Posted on 10 April 2012.
Listen to the great big berk: “The players, when we set out to win a game of football, they need to be aware of what the opposition do and what they don’t do and what we did was play straight into Birmingham’s hands in the first half.”…
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Posted on 09 April 2012.
So this is it then! Third plays fourth whilst the Saints face a tricky away game at Palace. If Claret & Blue triumphs in both games, it really is game on; if our home hoodoo continues and Southampton thump Palace, we …
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Posted on 08 April 2012.
Start all the clocks, reconnect the telephone, Encourage the dog to bark with a juicy bone, Plonk the pianos and beat a snare drum Bring out the bandwagon, let the admirers come. Let aeroplanes circle roaring overhead Scribbling on the sky the message ‘He is not Dead!’ Put claret and…
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Posted on 08 April 2012.
So now it is the referee’s fault. Tiredness, bad luck, poor officials, Dalglish has trotted out all the old excuses. Perhaps it is time to admit that either his players are crap, or he is failing as a manager. Dear God, Villa rocked up at Anfield today…
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Posted on 08 April 2012.
Rio and Anton Ferdinand will never be football’s version of the brothers Gallagher. If it is war all the time for the Oasis siblings, the relationship between the Manchester United and Queens Park Rangers central defenders was summed up in a Kampala hotel bar five years ago. Then, in …
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Posted on 07 April 2012.
So now it is the referee’s fault. Tiredness, bad luck, poor officials, Dalglish has trotted out all the old excuses. Perhaps it is time to admit that either his players are crap, or he is failing as a manager. Dear God, Villa rocked up at …
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Posted on 07 April 2012.
Every West Ham fan had his fingers, toes and cock crossed today, hoping that Pompey could get a result at Southampton; but any Reading fans wishing ill on the Saints probably miscalculated very badly indeed. The key for both Reading and Southampton was to disillusion West Ham. I kept…
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Posted on 07 April 2012.
The Olympic stadium – another bloated, over-budget stadium for the English capital city of London. From this Sarria Stadium To this.. Estadi Olímpic Lluís With the debate over its post-games future still raging, League One side Leyton Orient are not happy …
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Posted on 07 April 2012.
The collapse in form of Swansea is great news for the gRs. The Swans’ wings have been well and truly clipped and Hughes must fancy his chances of capitalising when Wales’s very own Barcelona travel to London. But for now, QPR are idle and praying that by the time …
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Posted on 05 April 2012.
So the OS has gone into overdrive in an attempt to combat Big Sam’s bollocks rant. In no way was Allardyce impugning the fans! As if! Allardyce reveres the fans. Allardyce understands that the club is the fans. Allardyce believes the fans…
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Posted on 05 April 2012.
West Ham United have been linked with a move for Kilmarnock goalkeeper Cammy Bell. Cammy Bell The 24-year-old helped lead his side to a shock victory over Celtic in the League Cup final. Kilmarnock boss Kenny Shiels told the Daily…
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