Written on February 27, 2011 at 8:48 pm, by sam
Just a little short one from me today and no, it’s not this fella: I couldn’t resist, sorry. Back onto the real news, our very own SalutSunderland.com found his way into the Sunday Telegraph today with a short comment about Sunderland’s poor away loss to Everton. I’m always on the look out for traditional pressContinue Reading
Written on February 24, 2011 at 6:02 pm, by sam
It sounds a bit like a dream, or a football cartoon story. It’s not though. St Pauli, football’s original punk club, have called up their press officer into the squad for Saturday’s game against Hannover. Hauke Brückner was given an hour’s notice before training due to a shortage of available defenders (four). Unusual, yes. OutContinue Reading
Written on February 23, 2011 at 5:28 pm, by sam
We do, of course, have the final installation of Champions League last 16 first leg games tonight. There’s a repeat of last year’s final between Inter and Bayern Munich, whilst French powerhouse Marseille take on walk-away leaders of the Premier League, Manchester United. As per yesterday, here’s a roundup of the best the blogosphere hasContinue Reading
Written on February 22, 2011 at 7:22 pm, by sam
Spending today searching for content about tonight’s Champions League teams (Copenhagen/Chelsea & Lyon/Real Madrid) was just another nail in the coffin for traditional news sources. At least for me anyway. Here are some quality articles about tonight’s non-English teams. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the Terry, Ancelotti, Fergie and Giggs by now (Giggs hasn’tContinue Reading
Written on February 18, 2011 at 5:56 pm, by sam
This week’s ‘favourites Friday’ isn’t really a ‘favourites Friday’ at all. It’s more of a Top Ten Tuesday-but-on-a-Friday. Top 10 Worst Football Injuries (I first posted this here, many moons ago – it needed a spruce up) Eduardo: Birmingam v Arsenal Wilfred Bouma, Aston Villa Jacob Olesen – Now plays for Viborg FF Ewald LienenContinue Reading
Written on February 17, 2011 at 2:10 pm, by sam
Ok so we’ve had the prediction league up for a week now – spanning 4 Champions League games and 8 teams. We’re a quarter of the way to knowing who the quarter finalists will be, but we’re a full way to knowing that ‘topdog’ is an unstoppable predicting machine! Sitting very pretty at the topContinue Reading
Written on February 11, 2011 at 8:20 pm, by sam
Midweek friendly leaves Slovakia embarrassed….by the powerhouse that is…..Luxembourg, yes, really. James Baxter offers he’s thoughts on the game @britskibelasi 5 games that changed the game. @offthepost highlights 5 games that changed the laws of the beautiful game Everyone’s a winner? keeping it topical, as virtually everything sports related in the news today has been aboutContinue Reading
Written on February 7, 2011 at 4:44 pm, by sam
An interesting story has developed regarding the 4-4 draw between Newcastle and Arsenal. For those who somehow missed the game, Arsenal were leading 4-0 after 26mins and Newcastle managed to break record to come back and score 4 goals – with Arsenal down to ten-men for the second half. Stade 2 (A France 2 productionContinue Reading
Written on February 7, 2011 at 1:17 pm, by sam
Thank you to our newest intern, sub-editor extraordinaire and Italian focused West Ham fan, Italia90, for this sourcing this roundup. Again we’re looking at the delivering you the best football blog content so if you have any of your own recommendations, please do let us know using the form to your right. ———— One particularlyContinue Reading
Written on February 4, 2011 at 3:27 pm, by sam
You’re here & this is a moment. Hopefully a big one. From this today and every Friday henceforth I’ll be featuring my favourite articles of the past week. They won’t always be news based and they won’t always be serious. They’ll be here to inject some bant into your Friday afternoons. Join in the ‘FavouriteContinue Reading