Well you did Fat Sam, get used to it and when you come to The Emirates later this season it will be by a greater scoreline….. So what of the game then? Within about five minutes Sky Sports announced that we had been drawn to play Tottingham Hotscum in the Carling Cup and at their […]
On the 17th December 2008, if I didn’t before, I suddenly had the perfect reason to despise this northern football club, yep, you have guessed it, that was the day Blackburn Rovers appointed Fat Sam Allardyce as their manager. Mind you, I didn’t like them much under Mark Hughes either. 🙂 Sam Allardyce is just […]
Shaw once wrote that ‘some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same’. In footballing parlance, a similar accusation might be levied at Jose Mourinho. There is no questioning his tactical ability. Whether proving his talent under a wide-brimmed sombrero in the footballing cauldrons of Mediterranean Europe, or […]
Around 5PM today we will know which teams we are to face in the Group stages of the Champions League 2010/2011. Twenty-two sides have already qualified, these are now joined by the clubs who have got through via the play-offs, so all in all there will be 32 sides in the pot. Eight groups, four […]