Forecasting Major League Soccer seasons before the first ball has even been kicked is a fool’s errand. In a league with salary-cap-enforced parity and a steady churn of player turnover, clubs dramatically ebb and flow from year to year. See: D.C. United, which finished bottom of the Eastern Conference in 2013 and first a season [...]
Most Famous Players Gone for a Burton It is Play-off day in League Two and the one thing that sticks in my mind is how Chelsea were very fortunate that Bobby Robson never listened to my father when being tipped off about Ian Hutchinson. ‘Hutch’ who became Peter Osgood’s magnificent [...]
Eurosport Cock-up not to mention Chelsea and England? Having lost yet another bet - I backed QPR in 90 minutes - I had to chuckle when waking to read the match report on the EUROSPORT site on my laptop. After spending yesterday morning with Tony Jimenez at his Thomson Reuters [...]