I am writing this while watching the Everton v Chelsea match, and referee Bobby Madley has managed to annoy me, not for the first time this season, for the amount of time he takes to re-start play. The Everton left-back Martina has fouled Chelsea’s Moses near the corner of his penalty area. Madley has decided … [Read more…]
A lot of football this week, with two rounds of matches in the Premier League. For me, there were two items particularly worthy of comment. Wayne Rooney Everton, with Sam Allardyce now in charge, managed to conjure up a couple of wins, and they have shot up the league table. But it was Wayne Rooney … [Read more…]
Having recently retired, I wanted to do something a bit different and at the same time, try to lose a few pounds and get a bit fitter. And so, for just over a year now, I have been playing Walking Football. It’s basically football for the over-50’s without all that running and heading stuff, and … [Read more…]
Pep Guardiola, I am seriously impressed! Not because your team has just beaten my lot, or that most pundits are saying that the title is yours to lose, and that you may go the season unbeaten. You impressed me because you came up with a clever tactical move that I had not seen before, and … [Read more…]
Two home friendlies against two top footballing nations, both 0-0 draws. To many people, including some of my mates, it was just more boring football, although I suspect that some of them couldn’t even be bothered to watch it in the first place. (Fair enough, it can get you like that when you’ve been watching … [Read more…]
Northern Ireland were on the wrong end of an awful refereeing decision the other night, in their World Cup play-off match against Switzerland, when they had a penalty awarded against them for handball. The fledgling VAR system was not in use, and so there was no opportunity for the decision to be reviewed and changed. … [Read more…]
Am I the only person out there who is getting a bit fed up of my team conceding goals directly from free kicks? You know the kind I mean, the ones where the keeper dives across his goal in vain as the ball flies into the top corner, or even worse, the ones where the … [Read more…]
Have been to the King Power a couple of times in the last week to see Leicester v Leeds in the League Cup and Leicester v Everton in the Prem. These days, before kick-off, on the big screen, we show an excellent compilation of our recent successes, in glorious technicolour, and our collective pride is … [Read more…]
Ashley Young and Dele Alli got away with a particularly ridiculous bout of macho posturing at the weekend. If you didn’t see it, it was that thing where they go forehead-to-forehead, almost but not quite head-butting each other. On the day, the referee didn’t feel the need to hand out cautions, which, in my opinion, … [Read more…]
Call me a miserable old so-and-so if you like, but I am getting slightly irked by a growing trend of tinkering with the name on the back of the shirt. I notice that Oxlade-Chamberlain is now just Chamberlain, and that Alli is now Dele, and I accept that some players may have private, personal reasons … [Read more…]