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Skysports - No regrets for Ollie
Ollie reflects on life at Leicester, Plymouth and QPR

When Ian Holloway moved from Plymouth to Leicester last season, many people were surprised by his decision.

Last November, Argyle looked like contenders for a place in the Championship play-offs and Holloway was seen as a hero around the town, while Leicester were scrapping it out at the wrong end of the table and had been through three full-time managers in less than a year. Click to continue reading...

Where's Arnie? Our Olyroos supremo? Anyone heard him speak? He did an interview with Channel 7, like they'd know what to ask but nothing with our football media not even with his "very silent" media mates who have strong links to the man. Robbie Slater and the amazingly supportive SMH journo Mike Cockerill. Click to continue reading...

If you love statistics, as I do, then you must read Daniel Finkelstein's Fink Tank column in the Times or on the TimesOnline website. Every week he and his team of geeks come up with some wacky statistics to explain why your favourite Premiership team is in the shape they are. This week his maths mates [. Click to continue reading...

Rafa Marquez and his mates play as many games in the US as on Mexican Soil these days/ Photo from esmas.com

Many I speak to wonder sometime quietly why the Mexican National Team seem to play all its friendlies on US soil and not in its home country. These same people wonder what affect this has on the US National Team, as their big rival often plays to bigger and more vocal crowds.

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Rafa Marquez and his mates play as many games in the US as on Mexican Soil these days/ Photo from esmas.com Many I speak to wonder sometime quietly why the Mexican National Team seem to play all its friendlies on US soil and not in its home country. These same people wonder what affect this [...] Click to continue reading...

Canberran football fans hold the key. If we get the 5000 Foundation Members we're in.

Has it ever been more simple, it's up to us, our mates, and their mates.

Do we want a team in Canberra? Click to continue reading...

A new football radio show is being planned to start soon on 98.3FM 2XX in Civic. 3-5pm on a Saturday. As the W-League is set to start, women's football in Canberra will explode. Do you want to leave all the analysis, jokes and comments to blokes like me!

Where is the next female commentator, host, presenter,sideswiper and analysers. Click to continue reading...

Phone Home Calling home is something most Football travelers do not do very often, unless you are keeping in touch with your better half who has graciously let you loose in a foreign country. What we do, is call our mates we are travelling with. The thing about that is the call is routed through Australia [. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham unveil delighted David Bentley

David Bentley has been formally presented as a Tottenham Hotspur player after completing his initial £15 million transfer from Blackburn Rovers.

The England international, 23, has signed a six-year deal at White Hart Lane, becoming the club's third acquisition of the summer, and immediately targeted a Champions League challenge this season saying it "meant the world" to sign for the club. Click to continue reading...

Injured Cristiano Ronaldo has been resting his crocked ankle - by going on a bender at an LA club.The Manchester United striker, recovering from an ankle operation, splashed out more than £10,000 on wine, vodka and bottles of Cristal champagne after arriving at trendy nightclub Villa with two friends.

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There has been plenty written about the Aberdeen game already. I managed to take in about an hour of the game before I had to take off for a day out with my mates. (The subsequent day out led to a late morning hence the late post today.) But I'll quickly put up some brief [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Aberdeen 0-2 Man Utd: The Away Kit is Terrible", url: "http://redrants. Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the Aston Villa boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using our ... Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the Rangers boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using our state-of-the-art .. Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the West Ham United boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using ... Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the Newcastle United boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using our ... Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the Hull City boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using our ... Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the Celtic boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using our state-of-the-art ... Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the Manchester United boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using our ... Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using our state-of-the-art cut ... Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using our state-of-the-art cut ... Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using our state-of-the-art cut ... Click to continue reading...

Imagine you're the boss, we've all been there shouting our advice from the stands, complaining to mates in the pub about the latest managerial error, so now it's your turn to tell your fellow fans just what your club needs to do in this summer's transfer window. Using our state-of-the-art cut ... Click to continue reading...

The Sun's banshee transfer wail can be heard all over the Scepter'd Isle; apparently Big Phil Scolari has given the green light to "Flog Drog". Droggers - to his mates - has often been a mouthy critic of the Chelsea management, and openly wept when Jose Mourinho left, so any move to show [...] Click to continue reading...

The Sun's banshee transfer wail can be heard all over the Scepter'd Isle; apparently Big Phil Scolari has given the green light to "Flog Drog". Droggers - to his mates - has often been a mouthy critic of the Chelsea management, and openly wept when Jose Mourinho left, so any move to show [...] Click to continue reading...

Liverpool legend Bruce Grobbelaar believes the club may have seen the last of the boardroom unrest at the club following a season full of turmoil.

The season just passed was far from memorable for Liverpool, as new co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett had an ongoing feud, there was an ownership struggle, an attempt to sack chief executive Rick Parry, talks held with Jürgen Klinsmann before he had secured the Bayern Munich job, and of course another forgettable season on all fronts, barring a Champions League run to the semi-finals following a poor start that only just saw them get through the groups. Click to continue reading...