I first saw Theo Walcott as a fifteen year old lad playing for Southampton in an under eighteen game at Swindon. I had never heard of him before but became aware that the great Cyril Regis was in attendance in the capacity of being his agent. I had been around youth football for a while but I had never encountered a fifteen year old with a high profile agent before. Click to continue reading...

I've seen a lot of beauts and to be honest...some where by players wearing the PSV jersey. We've seen Van der Gijp's rocket, Nilis' trickery but in my search for Jurry Koolhof crackers I found this compilation. The best goals ever scored by a PSV player. Hmmm....I did miss Willy Click to continue reading...

By 1970's Gooner Midfield inspiration is what was clearly lacking against Fulham and midfield inspiration is what we got against Twente in the Champions League in the form of Cesc Fabregas. The question is what will Arsenal do if and when Cesc is injured or unavailable in some other way. There is simply no one ready to replace his trickery, vision and creativity. Click to continue reading...

Martin O'Neill...A Simple Plan

2007/8 Review

When Martin O'Neill joined Aston Villa in August 2006, he had spent most of the previous six years managing in Scotland. However the Premiership had already seen the prototype of O'Neill's Aston Villa in his final year at Leicester. With his last major signing for the Foxes, he bought athletic striker Stan Collymore. Click to continue reading...

We are all very quick to jump on Arnie's back when we think that he gets it wrong. So, it is refreshing to say that I think the changes to the starting line-up were pretty much on the money. Out went players that would undoubtedly struggle with the pace and trickery of the Argentineans (Topor-Stanley [. Click to continue reading...

If statistics are an indication, Ashley Young, who finished the 2007-2008 league season with 8 goals and 17 assists, numbers on par with Cesc's 7 goals and 19 assists, should be the Aston Villa player Arsenal should try to acquire, rather than Gareth Barry. Then, of course, there's Gabriel Agbonlahor, the forward who looked really dangerous when Arsenal played Aston Villa last season. Click to continue reading...

In the opinion of this referee, NO.
For those that haven't seen the situation, let me explain what happened:
Minnesota had a ceremonial restart for a free kick about 19 yards from goal (that is, the ref was setting the wall and the players had to wait for his whistle to restart). Click to continue reading...

It's time to check in on disciplinary problems in MLS again. Here's the latest chart showing the most "popular" cautions and reasons for ejections: CAUTIONS Offense # Pct. Reckless Foul 119 33.8% Tackle From Behind 61 17.3% Pushing/Holding 48 13.6% Dissent 38 10.8% Professional Foul 34 9. Click to continue reading...

I suspect that digital trickery may have been employed to spice up this viral vid for EA's video game Fifa Street 3. That said, it's still impressive, in an 'I'm way too old and square to pull off any... Click to continue reading...

I suspect that digital trickery may have been employed to spice up this viral vid for EA's video game Fifa Street 3. That said, it's still impressive, in an 'I'm way too old and square to pull off any... Click to continue reading...

I suspect that digital trickery may have been employed to spice up this viral vid for EA's video game Fifa Street 3. That said, it's still impressive, in an 'I'm way too old and square to pull off any... Click to continue reading...

I suspect that digital trickery may have been employed to spice up this viral vid for EA's video game Fifa Street 3. That said, it's still impressive, in an 'I'm way too old and square to pull off any... Click to continue reading...

I suspect that digital trickery may have been employed to spice up this viral vid for EA's video game Fifa Street 3. That said, it's still impressive, in an 'I'm way too old and square to pull off any... Click to continue reading...

I suspect that digital trickery may have been employed to spice up this viral vid for EA's video game Fifa Street 3. That said, it's still impressive, in an 'I'm way too old and square to pull off any... Click to continue reading...

I suspect that digital trickery may have been employed to spice up this viral vid for EA's video game Fifa Street 3. That said, it's still impressive, in an 'I'm way too old and square to pull off any... Click to continue reading...