The Sams: food for thought
We caught up with Sam Allardyce, manager of Crystal Palace, just before lunchtime. Interviewer: “So, Sam, what did you make of the FA Cup giant-killings…
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Today’s Tales: You know it’s bad when Snodgrass is the main talking point
Ah, Thursday night writing in the days leading up to the FA Cup 4th Round. It all has a bit of an international week feel…
The Relocation Conversation
Welcome to the Relocation Conversation. It’s what you get if you put transfer gossip into a thesaurus and is my angle on everyone else’s transfer…
Today’s Tales: Big Sam is building one hell of a team, albeit a Championship team
Big Sam is working hard in this transfer window. He wants to build a team with an image. Unfortunately, the image appears to be that…
Pan the Pundits: Match of the Day
After a week off it was the return of crisp man Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer with Ruud Gullit. We were send off to Anfield…
Tuesday Tales: Beware the two hustlers in North London
Absolute credit to Arsene Wenger and Mesut Ozil. What a marvellous ruse. I’ve not seen a con job this convincing since I watched Ocean’s 11…