We couldn’t do it on the football pitch but then we wouldn’t want to evoke another touchline tantrum from Monsieur Whinger, wouldn’t want him to blot the good name of the Beautiful Game, so we let ’em win, just to keep the peace, let ourselves be fleeced. We’d sent our agent in months before to […]

Ah that’s better! Instead of the dire fold to the Red Devils on Sunday, some fight! The battling Reds of Liverpool are back again, keeping us on the edge of our seats, knocking in the goals between the poles: might not always be pretty but let’s show ’em we have guts, get off our butts […]

Liverpool go down to defeat again: another dire result as Scholes jabs one over Reina’s parrying arm and Ferdinand rifles in from the right side of the penalty area. A knock- out, one goal each half: that’s how it should be done! And meanwhile Rafa Benitez gesticulates on the sidelines in the technical area, a […]

Theo Walcott, our forgotten man of the World Cup — Sven’s secret weapon, never used except to warm the bench — explodes like an Exocet in the Under-21s with two clinical goals to beat the German U-21s 2-0 in Leverkusen — while in Zagreb the senior team wobbles to a 2-0 defeat to Croatia. English […]

I’m getting ready to watch Germany and Italy go at it in the World Cup Semi-Final in Dortmund but this is the US of A and ESPN is airing Nathan’s hotdog eating contest to celebrate this nation’s birthday (well the US are out aren’t they?). The contestants are stuffing wieners in their mouths, as many […]