To be honest, most of us rarely bother to look at who the sports news and match reports are written by as we idly flick through the back pages of the national papers so here are three of the names and faces behind some of the most widely-acclaimed football coverage in print.
Henry Winter (Telegraph)
Henry not only writes for the Daily Telegraph but can often be heard taking part in …
The gift that keeps on giving, namely this season’s owners at Upton Park, have been at it again.You can almost picture David Sullivan sat in his threadbare office at The Boleyn.
With his Panatella knocking out only marginally less heat than his electric fan heater, mental military style coat on, fully buttoned up, our hero is sipping champagne out of a polystyrene cup.
Strewn across his desk an eye watering plethora …
It’s not too long ago that Jermaine Beckford was working as a repair man for RAC.
He may have fixed your tire on the M1. You may have even seen him packing your shopping at your local store.
Maybe he once asked you to try the new selection of gammon he was mournfully carting around with him.
How times change. The 26-year-old is now thoroughly expected to sign on the dotted line for the …
Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha looked destined for a career in athletics before joining City’s reserve team in 2003. The Nigerian born Englishman excelled as a junior sprinter, earning a time of 11.09 seconds racing at the final of the English Athletics Association 100 meters contest. He was also similarly gifted at the standing triple jump. But, evidently, the lure of playing Premier League football proved too great to resist.
The defender, …
The Croatian national leagues aren’t renowned for, well, anything really. This is quite surprising really given that the Croatian national side have a very proud history.
The golden generation of the late nineties, which included Davor Suker, Zvonimir Boban and Slaven Bilic, may have faded away but Bilic’s reincarnation as a tactically astute manager – known for his controversial break from the traditional Croatian 3-5-2 – has paved the way for another …
Javier Hernandez Balcazar, also known as Chicarito (little pea), is Manchester United’s new Mexican summer signing. The deal was done in April and the North American will meet up with his new teammates for United’s American tour after the World Cup.
Sir Alex Ferguson moved quickly to secure the signature of the highly rated 21-year-old before the overtures of several Spanish clubs transformed into concrete bids. The move was so quick and …
If you haven’t yet heard of Luis Suarez, you soon will. The 23-year-old Uruguayan forward scored the most goals in any European league this year – one more than Lionel Messi.
The mesmerizing forward scored 35 goals in the Dutch league and achieved a grand total of 49 in all competitions. As if that wasn’t enough, he was resoundingly declared Dutch Footballer of the Year. Little wonder than that he’s been watched …
“C’est en faisant n’importe quoi qu’on devient n’importe qui” not my words but those of one Rémi Gaillard.
He’s a French prankster. Not like threatening to join Barcelona in order to up your salary, prankster. No, this guy is more like pretending to be a footballer (in this case Lorient).
Put his name into YouTube and you’ll discover that this is actually one of his more sophisticated stunts as most of the others I watched fell squarely into ‘would make Stewart Hall cry with laughter’ category. Oh Well. Enjoy this one…
Lee Mason isn’t exactly a household name in the list of referees that we have to vent our anger to every weekend.
However, Liverpool fans will be familiar with him as it was their team that suffered from his whistle last November. They may have lost the match against Fulham as a result of that, and Mason was relegated to fourth official duties the following weekend. The incidents involved sending off two Liverpool …
Those of us that love slating refs as much as Premiership managers do will have noticed that Mike Dean got demoted to the Championship, for one weekend, in the last month. This comes after the Professional Game Match Officials Limited decided that his performance in the recent Manchester United-Chelsea game was poor…and it was.
Dean has a reputation for awarding penalties, and boy is that true! Every time I watch a game involving Dean there almost certainly …
Escapini, LOL! Point taken! Got a little carried away (removing bug from ze a**)! Craig, mate, no offense!
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