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Stan’s horror column lunges in after horror tackle
One of the major talking points of the weekend was the horrible injury sustained by Aaron Ramsey, whose season has been ended after a tackle from Ryan Shawcross during Arsenal’s game with Stoke on the weekend. Wenger didn’t much care for the inevitable defences of Shawcross that followed in the immediate aftermath - not that [...]
Bendtner’s pointless points chat
Nicklas Bendtner’s propensity for talking about himself in a rather less mundane way than most footballers has made him stand out on the back pages more than his performances on the pitch have in recent times, and this in turn has landed him a tidy little collection of articles under his tag on Sport without [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
The best is still to come
One round of Six Nations matches down, and the tournament has failed to live up to the waxy poetry afforded it by Morgan Freeman and the BBC. The Irish were described by Brian O’Driscoll as “mediocre” against the Italians, the English beat a misfiring Welsh side by virtue of a moment’s [...]
Deals John Cross may have missed: Wellington Silva to Arsenal
Even by the standards of shoddy transfer rumours the effort today from John Cross will take some beating. With (presumably) a straight face and pen, he has written the following exciting story of Arsenal signing the possible wonderkid Wellington Silva:
Wenger takes a shine to Silva
Arsene Wenger is set to sign Brazilian wonderkid Wellington Silva after the teenager [...]
The numbers game: guessing the Chris Smalling deal
Manchester United have apparently made a foray into the transfer market this January and the deal sounds quite final, given that they’re not afraid to announce it on their official website. But ever since United stopped being a PLC and started being some strange Glazer bank they’ve no longer had to declare exactly what they [...]
Knee deep inside the Senderos deal
Sifting through the rumours of the January transfer window for the Daily Mail is Simon Jones, whose column dubs him ‘The Insider’, and gives us a helpful explanation of how he comes to his various pronouncements.
Simon Jones is Sportsmail’s man on the inside of all the major transfer moves this month.
His column, published every weekday, offers an [...]
Deals you may have missed: Chamakh is a Liverpool player now
Hot on the heels of having agreed a deal for Kenwyne Jones this week, the Mirror were pleased to report that Marouane Chamakh, linked fervently with the Premiership throughout much of last summer, was on his way to Anfield:
Liverpool agree £25million transfer deal for Chamakh
Now, we know what you’re thinking. That does sound like a deal has [...]
The Sun - only interested in the real deals
We live in exciting times. Highly anticipated sporting events (and horse racing) are fighting against the snow, England are fighting to save the 3rd Test in South Africa, Portsmouth are fighting for dear life, and Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are fighting a war of words. Which means they’re no longer planning to fight a [...]
Understanding Yaya’s plans is a no-no for the Sun
In the last month there has been a lot of posturing about the prospect of the Barcelona midfielder leaving Barcelona, whom you may recall are the current holders of every meaningful trophy available to them. Yaya Toure, whose future looked to be fairly certain in the summer when he signed a contract extension, is apparently [...]
Is Piers Morgan a Roy Keane fan?
If you were applying for a job writing a column for a national newspaper, you might be required to show some wisdom and insight on sport, coupled with some forthright but reasoned opinions of your own, but avoiding personal attacks. Nobody seems to have told Piers Morgan that, however, and he’s used his Daily Mail [...]