A Cultured Left Foot

Group E contains many people’s favourites and also the “favourite” dark horses for the Competition. Italy are perennial achievers, with the odd exception [...]

Barely have I turned on the PC and Newsnight are back on the case. Here’s the latest from Meirion Jones and the subsequent [...]

If Group C is the “Group of Death” then Group D ought to be a goalfest. Portugal are clear favourites to finish top [...]

Yesterday’s story on Newsnight has been followed up in today’s papers but not with as much gusto as it would if there was [...]

Arsenal Football Club tonight faces accusations that it has been secretly controlling the Belgian Club Beveren, having lent £1m to one of the [...]

Group of Death sprang up during Mexico 86, describing the matches involving Uruguay, Scotland, Denmark and Germany. Since then every World Cup has [...]

Group B is one where it is hard to see past two European Qualifiers but of the surprises, perhaps Paraguay are best placed [...]

This week sees the start of my World Cup Countdown, starting with Group A: On the face of it this Group ought to [...]

The World’s Biggest “Bring and Buy” Sale begins in eleven days although it looks like the dealers have got their early to snaffle [...]

This week has seen the publication of the self-proclaimed Independent European Sport Review 2006, a European Commission Report funded by UEFA. Even before [...]

John Obi-Mikel’s future has, depending upon which media outlet you believe, either been resolved or is still up in the air. Back in [...]

Alas poor Bobby, I knew him well as William Shakespeare may well have written if he were alive today. Contrary to popular rumour, [...]

The fall – out from the Champions League and Theirry Henry’s decision to remain at Arsenal continues. Over the weekend, Patrick Barclay and [...]

The Sunday papers continue to be dominated by Thierry Henry’s future at Arsenal. This time however, it is the “revelation” that Arsenal rejected [...]

In the aftermath of the Champions League defeat, the biggest problem facing The Arsenal was retaining the services. Despite the pessimism shown by [...]

Barcelona 2 – 1 Arsenal 0 – 1 Campbell (37) 1 – 1 Eto’o (76) 2 – 1 Belletti (81) Gutted. Absolutely f****** [...]

The biggest game of Arsenal’s history, not just the season, takes place on Wednesday. There I knew there was a decent variant to [...]

Rotherham United escaped relegation from League One by two points. Today it has been announced that they will start the new season on [...]

Investigations in Italy into match-fixing have engulfed forty one people, involving nineteen matches including some involving AC Milan and / or Lazio. Whilst [...]

Arsene Wenger has confirmed his squad for next week’s Champions League Final against Barcelona, barring injury, will not include Theo Walcott and that [...]

More rumblings about Sven Goran Eriksson’s England squad. First up to okeh was Ian Wright who wondered rather egotistically if Shaun Wright-Phillips had [...]

Late this afternoon Tottenham Hotspur FC lodged an official appeal against the Premier League recognising the result of their match at West Ham [...]