COLEMAN IS HOTTER THAN ENGLISH MUSTARD Talk about do everything right, that's Chris Coleman, the man who goes about his business in a very modest way, playing success down (rather like Tony Pulis) maintaining relegation is priority so players don't get ahead of themselves. Yeah, nobody expected Coleman to take his [...]
Why not? Wales against Iceland the two big outsiders who have not only got through but deserved it. Sometimes in cup competitions teams reach the final stages through a little luck here and there, which does not apply here, if you ignore Gareth Bales two free-kicks where both keepers were not only unsighted [...]
"You learn more from losing than winning" no not MacArthur, Alan Hudson I have been writing recently about players "mouthing" it off about what they are and what they're not going to do and then let everyone down, and those fans in particular. They don't let themselves down because it seems today's players have not [...]
THE WORKING MAN'S BALLET Don't insult our soldiers I wrote the Working Man's Ballet way back in 1996 a book which was what my former manager, mentor and great friend Mr Tony Waddington named the Beautiful Game of football, a beautiful game in the 60s and 70s that Tony would now find, [...]
WHO'S NEXT FOR THE CHOP Not surprisingly Gareth Southgate is the 6/4 favourite to take over from his boss of three days ago Roy Hodgson, and it is almost a certainty he will be named the England Head Coach pretty soon. He fits the bill perfectly and like several others in [...]
BRILLIANT FROM THE LEICESTER CITY OF THE EUROS I have been telling Joe Hart to keep his mouth shut for so very long now and concentrate on what his country expects him to do - stop balls from going into his net! His latest blunder cost us dearly even though we were [...]
Although Rod Stewart will not agree with his beloved Scotland departing just before the finals of Euro 2016, but I doubt if he cares too much. It was a great pity that happened because the interest with our four nations involved would have had far greater interest. England are the team who are best fancied [...]
ONE DOWN TWO TO GO.... Which sees England in deep trouble despite what the panels of ITV and BBC think, and then there's Glenn Hoddle. We have played the worst team in the Group, and all of this hype given by the so-called football experts from Alan Shearer to Gary Lineker and back, saying about [...]
Marko Arnautović began his career with his brother Danijel at Floridsdorfer AC. In 1998 he joined FK Austria Wien but behaviour issues saw him change club regularly as in the next six years he moved around restlessly before joining in 2006. Arnautović scored 22 goals in 24 games for the Under-19 FC Twente in the [...]
When I was a kid I delivered the North Staffordshire Evening Sentinel for a couple of years. Or to put it another way: I had a paper round. There were two compelling local football stories during my time and one compelling national story which became local – the kidnapped heiress Lesley Whittle was found [...]
