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Men of the Match – REPUBLIC OF IRELAND vs Ecuador – 23rd May, 2007.
Giovanni Trapattoni may have chosen the week prior to the Republic of Ireland’s first major tournament in a decade as the moment to deliver a belated slither of unpredictability to the proceedings of his team’s approach. Capriciousness is far from a characteristic that defines Trapattoni and his stringency in formation and team selection, on the … Continue reading
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We’ve all been there, sat in a pub quiz, when a football question comes up and everyone looks to you for the answer. There are simple questions about stadia or club nicknames, but then there are those that are more difficult – those asking about players that satisfy criteria, playing in five derbies, scoring for … Continue reading
On Wednesday evening Hernan Crespo finally brought his adventure in European football to an emotional end. The player’s career in Europe is bookended by spells at provincial club, Parma, and is in fact almost a palindrome: Parma, Lazio, Inter, Chelsea, Milan, Chelsea, Inter, Genoa and Parma. Things didn’t start off that well, though, for the … Continue reading
On the 7th May 2006, Middlesbrough, sat in 13th place in the Premier League, visited Craven Cottage to play a Fulham side who hadn’t beaten their opponents in the last four attempts. Nothing could separate these two teams throughout the whole of the league season, both sat on 45 points prior to this game, but … Continue reading
Welcome to Bob Wilson’s Wikipedia Wikipedia has changed the educational landscape as we know it. Gone are the days when knowledge was gained through dusty encyclopedias and local wisdom, hearsay and rumourmongering. Nowadays, people simply need to access Wikipedia in order to pass off facts as their own, plagiarise beyond all means in academia, sully … Continue reading
Compared to last year, the 2012 January transfer window was a much calmer affair. Players moved clubs for much more sensible transfer fees given the current financial climate and there were no real knee-jerk, blockbuster moves to speak of. However, a few strange transfers happened which left us baffled. Indeed, if you were a gambler, … Continue reading
As David Beckham signalled his intentions to finish his career with the LA Galaxy with a two-year contract extension announced last week, a career seemingly written by screenwriters in his new hometown of Los Angeles is reaching its final pages. The goal from the halfway line at Wimbledon that announced him to the country, burning … Continue reading
The was mounting speculation that he was going to call it a day, or that he would join the Carlo Ancelotti’s Qatari-funded revolution at Paris Saint-Germain. Maybe it was because of the dream of pulling on the GB shirt at the Olympics, or maybe even the thought of playing a shirt other that red or … Continue reading
Not only is Phil Neville a successful footballer, he was also a child cricket prodigy who broke many batting records set by Michael Atherton. His dad, Neville Neville, played for Greenmount Cricket Club in the Bolton Cricket League during the 1980s and while both of his sons, Phil and older brother Gary, were talented batsmen, … Continue reading
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