August 2009
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Sports thoughts from the weekend
Still the Button destiny?
Five races and only eleven points scored - how is it that Jenson Button still seems to enjoy such an advantageous position at the top of the Championship? Well, quite simply put, there is no one outstanding driver in one outstanding car to challenge him. Had this been the F1 of years gone [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history…August 29th 2002
The oldest entry to this column yet, 2002 offered an early incarnation of the BBC’s transfer gossip column, pulling together a small number of rumours under a very stylish graphic of a football and some symbolic arrows pointing both ways, just in case nobody reading it knew what a ‘transfer’ was in the context of football.
Manchester [...]
Spurs sell ‘damn good player’ (again) for £2m
Last week Harry Redknapp’s Sun column caught the eye for a slightly odd bracketing of players four players in the same breath, one of which didn’t seem to belong. The piece, entitled ‘I’d resign Hod and Jennings’ made the basic point that, whilst Redknapp had raised eyebrows by re-signing Spurs players - particularly two that [...]
Pride in your exclusives come before a deal with Stoke for Tuncay
Busy day for Colin Young yesterday, churning out not just one but two articles for the Daily Mail. And there you were thinking that this particular journalist had done all his work for the day by beating everyone to the exclusive news that Sanli Tuncay was on his way out of Middlesbrough to Birmingham:
Exclusive: Birmingham set [...]
Business Studies with Mark Hughes - valuing assets
In amongst the praise for the newly-arrived Joleon Lescott, we were caught by this particular observation of the Manchester City manager Mark Hughes:
“Joleon is arguably the best centre-half in the Premier League and can be for a number of years”
Erm… John Terry anyone? Not that he is necessarily better (although Fabio Capello seems to think so) it’s [...]
A Lawro Lawro League Table: Prediction League, August 27
So, two or three games into the season, depending on how much you love the Europa League, Champions League qualifiers, or friendly matches against Barcelona, and the two leagues are starting to take shape.
In Lawroland, Manchester United are grinding out the results - 3 games, 3 wins 2-0 - and that is enough to head off [...]
Inside the mind of Peter Roebuck
In the wake of the Ashes series plenty of awards and analyses have been meted out, but none surpasses the invective of Peter Roebuck, whose piece on Cricinfo is particularly ill-informed. Rather than sticking to the cricket, you see, Roebuck has decided to turn to the question of why this was not quite as English [...]
Misleading headline: ‘Wenger: Bhoys bigger than Utd’
So sayeth the Sun headline this morning. So Arsene believes what, we’re supposed to wonder? That Celtic are a bigger club? It seems a bit of a stretch. That they have a better following? Well, there’s an argument there, though it might be somewhat antagonistic. Let’s see what Antony Kastrinakis means:
ARSENE WENGER has dubbed Arsenal’s European [...]
The Mirror’s inside line on Marouane Chamakh’s West Ham deal
It’s been a little while since the name Marouane Chamakh entered the tabloid consciousness, and having been linked with a host of Premiership clubs, the focus has of late turned particularly to West Ham and Arsenal. So what’s going to happen? Let’s consider the Mirror today:
Gianfranco Zola has flown out to Italy to complete a deal [...]
Q&A with Steve Bruce
Based on some quotes from Steve Bruce over the weekend about Darren Bent’s England prospects, we can’t help but be glad he is not the England manager - not because he’s inept, but because his knowledge of the players that might be at his disposal is rather disconcerting.
Nobody is disputing the bright start Bent has made [...]