Soccer Limey in America

Chelsea extended their lead to seven points ahead of the Manchester United match. The Red Devils surely would be keen to narrow the gap before their trip to Stamford Bridge next week. Sir Alex Ferguson started Van Persie, Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck with Paul Scholes and Michael Carrick as suppliers. Tony Pulis fielded a [...]

Yesterday afternoon, or if back home in England, yesterday evening, a strange thing happened in the crazy world of soccer journalism and social networking that illustrated, to me at least, the huge power that has now developed across Twitter, Facebook and other popular network sites. It all started with news out of The Independent newspaper [...]

Back in March of last year, we were all looking forward to what we thought would be one of those defining moments of English football once the 2010 World Cup got underway in South Africa in June as it was expected that England would be a contender to win that elusive trophy. We all know [...]

I have been involved with this sport of ours for almost 45 years, and I can honestly say that I have never witnessed such a bizarre set of circumstances that emanated out of Old Trafford this past seven days. I have read many articles which explain (or at least try to) what happened with the [...]

You could be forgiven for thinking that the last 12 months have been the most miserable in the life of England’s young striker Wayne Rooney. An ankle injury at the end of last season forced him out of the UEFA Champions League tie against Bayern Munich, and as a result, led to a period of [...]

Well, here we go again folks. Another England player busted, pants down by his ankles, with a “tell all skank”, by a garbage-can-rummaging reporter who’s now truly achieved “papperazzi” status. What a wonderful sports world we live in, don’t we? For those of us who’ve been living under a rock over the last few days, [...]