Leeds United have failed to have their 15 point deduction for blatant cheating overturned by a 3-man arbitration panel.
Serves them bloody right!
It shows that sneaky tactics like theirs are not welcome in football, and means that the teams who really deserve automatic promotion from League One can battle it out this weekend.
Right, I’m back now and I’m going to sort this flippin’ blog out big style!
I haven’t posted anything on here for aaaaages and to be quite honest I feel ashamed, as well as annoyed. I was sitting here in the newsroom telling my friend Katie McPhillimy that she needs to set up a blog for her forthcoming trip to America, when I’ve been completely ignoring my own.
I could sit here and make excuses – and I will. Read the rest of this entry »
Today marks the death of top flight football as we know it. The 20 Premier League teams agreed in principal to plans to have them each playing an extra game abroad, to satisfy the ever-increasing greed of the boardroom fat cats and foreign owners.
Under the new proposals, each club will play 39 matches per season, with cities around the World being invited to bid for the extra 10 games. The idea is apparently to promote the league around the globe.
What a stupid idea it is. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday was the first day back at university for my fellow coursemates and I, in our final semester before graduation, yet many people in the two lectures we had proved that they have a lot of growing up to do between now and getting a job. Read the rest of this entry »
My friend/colleague/housemate Danny spotted an article by the legendary sports writer Martin Samuels this week, amid all the media hoo-haa surrounding the predictable appointment of Kevin Keegan as Newcastle United manager. Again.
Apart from the fact that new owner Mike “I’m just like you!” Ashley has sacked Sam Allerdyce before he had a chance to warm the seat in his office, we’ve also been bombarded with the annoying vanity of the Geordie population.
“We’re not like you lot from down south, you don’t understand us.”
No, you’re not like us. Most of you who attend St James’s Park on a saturday afternoon are dangerously obese men in desperate need of a t-shirt to cover up your hideous breasts.
Ooh those crazy Japanese! Just look at what they’ve invented now…
Once again university has gotten itself in the way of more important things and my blog posts have been few and far between. So it’s nice to find some time between working, sleeping and playing Football Manager to write up a new post.
I’ve been full of festive cheer the last week or so, as I imagine many people have, however I’ve been even more cheery than usual. I don’t know exactly why this is, perhaps it has something to do with Coca-Cola reverting back to the traditional Christmas adverts (the ones with all the lorries), and everyone knows that when those adverts come on then Christmas has really started. Or maybe it’s because this is the last Christmas of my degree, and I am excited about the fact that (hopefully) this time next year I’ll have a proper job in journalism and for once will be able to afford to buy presents. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m starting to wonder whether or not anyone actually reads my blog posts. Despite the fact that I’ve had just over 1,600 in seven weeks (which is quite a lot in my book), I think most of those views are down to pure luck.
A while ago I wrote a post about Halloween and pumpkins. Nothing special there, except I’ve noticed that the majority of the views I get seem to be from people searching on Google for pumpkin pictures. In fact, I’d say about 90% of the search engine terms used to get to my page contain the word pumpkin, and I think people probably realise they’re not on the page they want and then click ‘back’ without reading on. Read the rest of this entry »
Tonight’s defeat to Croatia left me devastated…for about 20 minutes. Now that I think about it though, this could be the best thing to happen to English football for years. It’s not like we were ever going to win Euro 2008, was it?
Firstly, the good news is that the F.A have called an emergency meeting for Thursday morning, during which they will almost certainly decide to sack Steve McClaren. He is without doubt the worst manager England has ever had, and the fact that he was ever considered for the job means that those who appointed him should go too. Relegation battles year after year, a lucky run in Europe and a Mickey Mouse Cup do not make a good manager. Those kind of stats certainly shouldn’t get anyone the job of replacing a manager of Sven’s pedigree. Read the rest of this entry »
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