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Lotteries, Penalty Shoot Outs & Positive Psychology
Whenever there is a penalty shoot-out during a football tournament, I will wager with you that that the pundits "back in the studio" will use the word lottery on several occasions as the cameraman homes in on managers picking the poor bastards charged with (unless they are playing England) potentially letting their nation down in front of a world wide audience (I can ...
Groundhog Day for England….Again!
It would take the most ignorant and biased fan to deny that England's obligatory penalty shoot out defeat was justice served to an Italian side that after the first twenty minutes totally dominated the spirited but pretty much hopeless men in white. All over the radio this morning there were accusations of lack of spirit, not playing for the shirt and all that other ...
Los españoles son Boring (the Spanish are Boring)
I dashed home from celebrating Oakley's first win of the cricket season last night so I could watch the aristocrats of French football take on technically gifted media darlings of Spain, a game that apparently had ITV pundits Roy Keane, Jamie Carragher and Roberto Martinez purring in the studio. Quite why they insist on having a foreigner I can't understand on the ...
It’s the Return of the Tax Evaders!
It has to be said that this week has been one to forget for comedian Jimmy Carr, a career in severe jeopardy after being exposed for what is apparently tax avoidance rather than tax evasion. These are two different things of course; one is legal if not exactly moral whilst the other is not. It is alleged that Carr avoided paying tax on three million pounds, which ...
What Makes a Team?
Sat here watching the Spain v Croatia game and after seeing the much fancied Dutch collapse last night, I am wondering what it actually takes to make the ultimate football team that can keep evolving. It is amazing how we stereotype football teams and it has to be said that every team, with exception of England, has lived up to its stereotypical billing. The Dutch, ...