Written for the Times Fanzine Fanzone on October 17, 2008 Last week’s game at Goodison against Newcastle was a grey game, neither black nor white – but grey, neither a success nor a disaster; and if truth be told it teetered closer to the latter. While Moyes spent the second half fuming at his team’s...
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“The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It’s nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It is about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out to beat the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.” A lovely bon mot from...
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I have an irrational disgust for Tottenham Hotspur, bolstered by the fact that everyone from Mourinho to my obese cousin are tipping them to “break into” the Top 4. Nick Hornby describes them as having a “smug air of ersatz sophistication” and this sums up my feelings on the matter perfectly. The funny thing...
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