So, Borussia Dortmund are a selling club. A feeder club for Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Manchester United. A club with no ambition. A club interested only in profits. A club showing no respect for its fans. A club on a downward spiral to mediocrity. Anyone who thinks this is not the case is delusional, […]

Hello and welcome to this week’s round-up. First up this week is the long-overdue apology from Arsene Wenger in a meeting with the press last week. In addressing Roy Hodgson’s comments on the lack of English talent in the English top-flight, Wenger, although feigning sympathy for the England manager’s woes, went on to boastfully list […]

Hmmmm….been a tough season so far, hasn’t it? It has for me at least. Although to be fair, this is my first real season as a football supporter. Let me explain. When I was younger, I was never really into football. I mean I played for a kid’s team when I was like 7-10 or […]

What counts more in a football team? Is it the quality of the players? The manager? The playing system? Stable ownership?The fans? Which one? All of them? Of course the answer is all of them how does each of the above measure in relation ? If someone attempted to add up all the parameters, that’s […]

Truth be told,I don’t quite know what to make of that game ! I could quite happily leave it at that. At 4.55 pm my wife gave me my tea.Very nice too.Roast Chicken,mixed salad and crusty bread. “I cant eat that now love.I am having palpitations here .I think I am going to faint” “You […]

Hello and welcome to this week’s round-up. First up in a busy week is the news that Andrei Arshavin is likely to be in his final season at Arsenal. With so few games left to play, it is likely that we’ve seen our little Russian dynamo in an Arsenal shirt for the last time. Arshavin […]

The Referee increased Everton’s chances  markedly in the first ten minutes. Fellaini should have had two yellows in that time.By not giving the cards when they were deserved he gave Everton license to make the game physical and disjointed.That was exactly what they did. Fellaini was strong ,uncompromising and generally cuntish all night.He also dived […]

A step back from the battle in the PL today, we can get return to the trenches tomorrow. Today however wander with me in the warm sun, along the sunny beaches, blue sky  and verdant greenery of Brazil. I confess I am old enough to have watched the 70 World Cup. I saw the finest […]

  Today a new ‘guest’ writer from Twitter, a certain @arseblagger gives us his take on yesterday’s game and then we’ll hear from @Blackburngeorge. First up our new twitter friend @Arseblagger. A gift of a penalty, an own goal and an offside goal gave us three points that we never looked like getting. From the […]

Blogs are about opinions.  Or so I am told.  Well I am about to open myself to ridicule and abuse by giving my opinion on Andrey Arshavin. Before I get stuck into my gushing love fest, let me say that much of what I will say is based on memories rather than research and facts […]