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They’re black-and-white memories, sepia smudged, of toddling down the street to the corner shop opposite the grey-tide promenade of my home town, buying a quarter bag of sweets of my choice for the English FA Cup Final and hurrying them back home to guzzle with my dad whilst we watched…
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I was brought up on the Siberian terraces of Grimsby Town’s Blundell Park, an ancient stadium whose eastern Main Stand backed onto the grey skies and sluggish tides of the River Humber. Beyond, the cold North Sea and the windswept wastes of Europe lurked, whence the tempests howled onto our…
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’twas a wild Friday night in the north of Spain, or ‘una noche de perros’ as they call it here, with the rain pelting pitilessly and the temperature hovering around a miserly 3 degrees. A three-dog night indeed, and so what better place to spend it than with your mates,…
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Before this weekend, Granada had only been top of LaLiga once before, coinciding more or less with the overthrow of Allende’s Chilean government in September 1973 by Pinochet’s cronies. The coincidence is of no relevance whatsoever, but I thought I’d drop it in anyway. It seems like a long time…
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In military theory, after a defeat, an excess of self-reflection and analysis of exactly what went wrong is seen as healthy, but only up to a point. This is because there was an adversary, and the adversary prevailed. You lost the battle – but it wasn’t all down to you. …
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The British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once observed that ‘A week is a long time in politics’. Eduardo Alvarez more recently remarked that ‘three weeks is a long time in football’, and so here’s Liga Fever again, just as you were beginning to think that you could no longer stand…
For fans, the transfer market can bring about anxiety, anger, frustration and confusion at one extreme, pure delight bordering on ecstasy at the other. For the neutrals, it’s a time to fulfill the guilty pleasure by indulging in often crude, unfounded gossip and endless rumors that get pushed in the media. Transfer stories are easy … More What is it with the transfer market obsession?
Bayern finally abandoning their prudent ways to catch up to the rest of Europe: Spending big on new players doesn’t always bring results. Some teams have learnt the hard way what happens if theres no set plan or structure behind said spending (cough cough Manchester United to name an example). However, it often does help … More Reinventing Bayern München: An often prudent giant has its hand “forced” in the market to keep up
When the appointment was made, most would have immediately thought that Inter Milan would be ready to overthrow Juventus’s Serie A dominance and challenge them for the Scudetto. Likewise, many people thought Napoli under Ancelotti could push Juventus the way Sarri’s Napoli pushed Juventus but that wasn’t the case. The past eight seasons in Italy … More Antonio Conte & Inter Milan: Match made in heaven or hell?
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Never mind the bullocks, it’s The Balls. The traditional round-up of the league season has been delayed by an unfeasible attack of Japanese jet-lag, but now I’m compos mentis, here we go: The five most predictable outcomes of the season: Let’s get these out of the way first, since they’re…
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