Posted on July 10, 2008 by Paul Groves
You have to hand it to Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa, he has almost cornered the market in ill-judged sporting soundbites.
The foot-in-mouth diseased football big-wig has waded into the preposterous saga surrounding Cristiano Ronaldo’s “will he, won’t he, who bloody cares?” transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid.
Blatter’s unique take on the whole grubby business is that [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2008 by Paul Groves
Feel-good story of the day has to be Aston Villa’s decision to pass up the big bucks in favour of supporting a Birmingham-based charity.
The football club’s shirt sponsors for next season will be Acorns, which operates children’s hospices in the Midlands and has struggled in recent years to secure sufficient funding to maintain all its [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by Paul Groves
The road to Wembley and the FA Cup Final has been quite an eventful one for Cardiff City and its fans
It will be the club’s first appearance in the final since 1927 - when they actually won the FA Cup - and there is a huge amount of confidence that they will beat Portsmouth to [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by Paul Groves
A mixed day for the boys in blue.
Cardiff City are Wembley-bound (again) after securing a FA Cup Final spot against Portsmouth - 81 years since their last final appearance, which they won.
But Cardiff Blues lost heavily in France to Toulouse in the Heineken Cup quarter final.
I’m more of a Blues man than a City fan, [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2008 by Paul Groves
The BBC’s psuedo-news output on BBC1 this morning had an item on the search for the best football chant.
The item, brought to us in the usual superficial style we expect from the Beeb’s various info-tainment programmes, was by sports news hound Mike Bushell.
There were various renditions of witty (sic) terrace chants.
But it got me thinking [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Paul Groves
The pressures on Paul Gascoigne have been mounting since he first started to cause excitement on a football pitch and arguably they increased still further when he was simply unable to carry on playing the game he loves.
The decision to section Gazza under the Mental Health Act will, hopefully, see him finally get the professional support [...]
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