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 nonsense that comes with every predictable exit that England suffer at the ...
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 panel, I just don't know, perhaps they didn't realise that Jamie Carragher would ...
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 using the top rate of tax at fifty per cent equals (not that you need telling this) ...
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, the masters of under achievement and in house bickering capitulated in their ...
Check this out......my recent post regarding TV commentators and pundits went viral.... well sort of anyway and I found it kind of exciting. This was on the back of one of my Facebook friends (Andy Ogden) who found it sufficiently funny/interesting to re-post it as a link, meaning that people in Taiwan and Hong Kong read it and passed it on to others. I am not likely to start challenging Mark Zuckerberg here, but a few hundred page views in a ...