An article on The Guardian has popped up that has given me some faith that the near-retarded men who run football are actually proactively trying to improve the sport, rather than the usual last minute band-aid solutions that never work.
Basically, the proposal is to enforce the policies of the Arsene Wenger School of Football Economics [...]
That’s right, I said it.
Now let me give you a bit of backstory. Growing up, I was a FIFA lad up until the late 90s, primarily due to a lack of awareness of Pro Evolution Soccer (or Winning Eleven as it was called when played on my hacked Playstation).
At some point during my latter school [...]
After giving Martin Atkinson a good verbal bumming (verbal?) over his refereeing against Chelsea, the FA decided not to punish Alex Ferguson for his comments. Whaaa?
The only reason I can think of is some kind of misplaced enforcement of double-jeopardy where Fergie has shit on so many refs this season that they either have to [...]
In a wild, desperate, somewhat surreal last throw of the dice Ireland actually asked if they could be the 33rd team at the 2010 World Cup. Ignoring the obvious difficulties of tacking on an extra country to the normally-32 team tournament, it was a ballsy move that was met presumably with an equally ballsy “Err… [...]
Winner announced December 24th!
