http://www.sportwithoutspin.com Rumour-busting, chat-spotting, plain-talking sport Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:03:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We spotted a delightful story yesterday which turned up on Football 365's Mediawatch page and The Times concerning new Daily Mail columnist Glenn Hoddle. Glenn, you see, has been drafted in to provide World Cup analysis, on account of his taking us into the 2nd round in France in 1998 ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/06/02/people-whove-forgotten-glenn-hoddles-take-on-the-1998-world-cup-glenn-hoddle/ The Hammers had a pretty wretched time of things against Wolves at home on Tuesday night, and since they looked determined to drag themselves into a scrap for the drop which Burnley, Hull and Portsmouth looked perfectly capable of conducting on their own, it's time to speculate about the future ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/03/25/the-inside-line-on-gianfranco-zolas-future-at-west-ham/ [caption id="attachment_2838" align="alignright" width="150" caption="But... Photo Simon Scott CCANC"][/caption] The first part of some bewildering logic from Stan Collymore today, who is frustrated by the appointment of Gordon Strachan to the Middlesbrough hotseat: The constant loop of average managers like Gordon Strachan getting all the jobs really depresses me Ouch! We'll deal with ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2009/10/26/gordon-strachan-the-average-manager/ [caption id="attachment_2071" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Rooney, not so much a Wenger boy - Photo Austin Osuide Wikimedia Commons"][/caption] One this day in 2004,  BBC's transfer gossip column mystifyingly has Arsene Wenger chasing all the big names, has the Daily Star Sunday pricing Rooney at £50m without so much as a Florentino Perez ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2009/07/04/on-this-day-in-transfer-gossip-history-july-4-2004/