Does anyone else get fed up of Fergie's whingeing?

I mean I know he has demi-god status in British football but come on.

The change in the way managers talk about referees is noticeable.

They say things like "It did seem at the time to be an outright sending off but I'm sure it looked different from the angle the referee saw it at"

Or "It did seem a harsh decision but that's football and the referees do a good job"

All managers that is except Fergie. Click to continue reading...

I'm worried I might be turning into a grumpy old woman.

I am not usually known for my cynicism but recently I have found myself increasingly at odds with the world in some respects.

For example the governmental promises to shower our successful Olympians from the Beijing games with honours. Click to continue reading...

An astonishing leaked interview with former England boss Steve "Umbrella" McClaren has made it clear to British football authorities that the man they entrusted with England's dismal Euro 2008 qualifying campaign was in fact a Dutch spy, sent in to sabotage English football. The interview (shown below) is thought to have been taken when McClaren was [. Click to continue reading...

£6m...That's Ljungberg's reward for being a Premier League flop as Hammers show him the door

Freddie Ljungberg's disastrous spell at Upton Park is over after only 12 months as West Ham agreed to pay a staggering £6million to get him off their spiralling wage billl.

As the full extent of Ljungberg's incredible salary details emerged - he is paid £85,000 a week and had an option for another year if he made just 15 appearances this season - West Ham are still suffering from the aftershock of one of the most expensive mistakes in British football history. Click to continue reading...

It's a concept that has been debated for years but now it seems that a Great British football team will become a reality. Fifa President Sepp Blatter, who once suggested that women should wear tighter shorts to make the female game more attractive, has already given his support to the idea and it now appears that the FA are keen on the proposal as well. Click to continue reading...

For the many things that British football has exported across the world - naked greed, hooliganism, you know the sort of thing - but some of them, just some of them, have been worthwhile. The league system is an British invention, as is international football. One of the less celebrated exports, however comes in the [. Click to continue reading...

One of the most interesting headlines to come out of today's newspapers was the story that head of the London 2012 committee Sebastian Coe has offered the job Team Great Britain's football coach to Sir Alex Ferguson. Now the idea of having a Great British football team has long been suggested but the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish Football Associations feel the idea would threaten their independence within Fifa.

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Obviously an impossibility because it's been categorically stated on QPR messageboards that Gorkss to QPR is an absolute, categorical done deal (and even more than that!}. Although as this has dragged on and on, various posts have suggested something else. The article also speaks of QPR "are understood to be offering him eye-watering wages" which is at least the second article which spoke of the high wage QPR were offering Gorkss. Click to continue reading...

Ol' Big Ears is Back...
So it seems that England and Thailand are doing the mutually beneficial corruption thing - the English Premier League get Dr Thaksin Shinawatra to own a brand, and to offer inside knowledge regarding the underground Asian betting markets; Thailand get Peter Reid to manage their national team. Click to continue reading...

Today marks the fifth anniversary of Roman Abramovich's takeover of Chelsea. It was the biggest in British football history at the time £140 million and, I must say, it has worked out quite well for the club thus far.

Two Prem titles, two Carling Cups, one Community Shield, an FA Cup and a Champions League final later, Chelsea is now moving into phase 2 of the revolution, with Uncle Phil & Co.

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Honestly, I am not making this up.
British football star David Beckham will attend the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Chongqing Evening News reported today.

Beckham and other celebrities representing London, which will host the next Summer Olympics, will participate in the "London Eight Minutes" performance at the closing ceremony. Click to continue reading...

Over the next few days, expect to read a multitude of odes written by bloggers from the UK regarding the demise of Shoot Magazine, the popular British football publication which owner IPC announced it would be shutting it down at the end of this month. Shoot! was a hugely popular weekly football magazine aimed at children. Click to continue reading...

With rumours of an imminent move to Portsmouth/Aston Villa on the cards for Peter Crouch, COS looks at the career of Liverpool's lankiest striker and asks, is Rafa an idiot to let such a prolific goalscorer leave? Standing just over two metres in his socks, Peter Crouch is known throughout British football as having a "good [. Click to continue reading...

While there has been a considerable exporting of Polish manpower to the United Kingdom in recent years, the links between the 2 countries have not been all one way. And one of the things that has gone to Poland in return, to be taken up with immense enthusiasm, has been British football culture. Click to continue reading...

This has nothing to do with the RailHawks but I'm so aghast right now at the lack of knowledge of the Laws of the Game by the soccer commentators on ESPN2 that I have to post this. If it were some silly thought from Dave O'Brien who called the 2006 World Cup after being a life long baseball commentator that would be one thing, but legendary British football commentator Andy Gray and his sidekick Scotsman Derek Rae should have known this instead of going on and on and on during today's Holland v. Click to continue reading...

Next up in Group C we have everyone's favourite Orangemen, the guardians of 'Total Football' and perpetual self destructive squabblers, the Dutch.

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Official coach slogan - One mission, one feeling, together we are Orange!
Unofficial coach slogan - Together we will struggle. Click to continue reading...

The Times Online has a review of the book Uppies and Downies: The Extraordinary Football Games of Britain by Hugh Hornby. The book is a fascinating look at Atherstone Ball Game and other ancient contests that still take place in Britain. Hornby's take on the history of football is that too many books are preoccupied [. Click to continue reading...