As I know Nigeria quite well(through having mates out there and visiting a couple of times too) I appreciate that the have nots will look at John Obi's family and won't even be able to picture the kind of wealth he has and enjoys on his wages-but that never excuses it.
The kidnappings, usually, are of oil magnates relatives in Nigeria as that's the principal source of wealth for an entire nation(or should be)however Obi's dad, as far as I know, has invested a ...
I don't. I hope they catch the gits without making future kidnappings more likely. When we pay up we make every rich kid and their relatives a future target for scum like this. I hope his dad gets home, sure, but I'd rather it was at the kidnapper's expense rather than John Obi's.
This kind of thing is getting more popular in a lot of countries from Mexico to Ghana and Nigeria-Cote D'ivoire too I believe has issues with this crap. It' needs stropping a...
Yes. Also a great touch that reminds us all what football was once about and respectful of a history in repaying County with this fixture which might be fitting for Juve but will definitely help County more. great stuff and well done La Signora.
No, just Stoke. Only Stoke play like this in the top flight and are a shameful spot on English football. It's the most boring team to watch in the entire history of football and something anyone who cares about the EPL should shudder at the thought of. I'm embarrassed to call Pulis my countryman as his side represents everything backwards about thinking in English football from under eights upwards. Strength over skill every sodding time.
Saddest thing of all? That th...
If you aren't bored by Stoke then you don't like football and they play like this against EVERYONE.
They also deserved nothing. They offered VERY little in terms of threat and had Chelsea been given the free kicks, and more importantly the two penalties that they should have had even Begovic having the day of his life wouldn't have saved them. AVB was right in that Stoke bullied not just Chelsea, though they managed to overcome it second half, but also the referee...
Thanks. Yeah, my friend who lives in Germany has a son at( I think) Cologne or Wolfsburg)who's only about 8/9 and even there I see problems. The way they're coached sounds great-short sides, small pitches and everything with the ball at their feet from fitness to tactics and drills but he worries about burn out because they train so much-hours per day on top of school every day with games at the weekend is a risk for youngsters imho.
I can't believe the way kids h...
Great piece. My nine year old (we live in one of the blackspots in England with no club within 90minutes travel so deals have to be done with pro clubs just to allow them to train with our local boys. Two clubs, one a EPL club with true academy, were interested in my youngest but as he's too young to travel for games I felt travelling to a satellite training thing was too much effort for too little return)is a good little player but as our league is cut off geographically I see it as a mi...
Tough one. He says he doesn't want loaning out and, if I'm honest, he also LOOKS plenty big enough and strong enough to be playing EPL. Just with the sheer number of strikers at Chelsea now his chances might be limited AND Stuz has looked the best of a decent lot pre season. Boas must have some clue, mind. Toughie, as I said.
Also, he LED the line for Anderlecht and that central striker is always going to be Torres or Drogba while they're there with Anelka possibl...
Not to a club that don't have a Nike strip,apparently. Oddly accepted story that one was.
The media seem to want us to think they're carbon copies but with a different favoured foot! thing is even Chelsea aren't sure where Josh is best played right now OR what they imagine he'll end up becoming position wise.
Personally, I think he's too slight and would be wasted playing a holding role in a 4 3 3 but I don't see him as a number ten either-if anything he's more like a Modric than anything-a left sided playmaking midfielder-more a number eig...
Ah, this is what I'm talking about. Liverpool fans don't usually have this hate towards payers that leave their club but Torres seems to attract the nasty fringe. We don't know why he stayed last summer or why he left in January(and he could NOT have got L'pool a better deal if he tried, could he?)and as a fully paid up and life long "suferador" (mind my Spanish slang spelling)he'#s not the ,m,kind of guy you'd usually expect to move putrel;y for the cash and...
Thanks, Kulka, the animosity towards him from a huge portion of L'pool fans since the move has been uncharacteristic of a group of fans who, usually, know their football and understand players and clubs fall out. Liverpool fans normally always remain appreciative of their former players and to see you doing the same for Torres is a credit to you.
Don't get me wrong-after a one-one draw at Anfield in the 80s I was VERY lucky to escape a slice session from a Stanley sur...
Bags of talent and no idea! We were lucky enough to get to talk to Jose Mourinho at a function in Milan the other year and he was ,. at the time, trying to cope with Mario-he felt thee was little hope for the lad if he couldn't grow up a little and it looks like The special One was 100%right. Now he has that pice tag he's got even more mental.
The things is I can't even THINK what he was trying with the spin turn and heel, wtf? then again the word "think"...
Meh, Fifa IS a corrupt, anti English mess.Jealous of opur place as the HOME of football they do everything they can to do us down and we won't be cowed, and nor will our wonderfully investigative and free press just by some no mark like this.
All it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to ignore it and at Fifa we have bad men aiding it. England should LEAVE Fifa. It's rotten to the core and not fit to run OUR game. I'm sure the FA are oh so terrified! The fac...
Itprobably does,though, and that's my point. Just don't expect too much and even expecting them to be in the L'pool side for a long time is a MASSIVE expectation. Remember the likes of Thompson? Everyone expected great things, he played a ton of games early in his career then a move and...nothing. It's just MORE likely they won't make it. I'm not saying they can't, just that even asking them to keep that initial flush going is bloody hard.
My ezxpe...
McEachran, Bertrand,Kakuta, Salomeh, Van Aanholt, Borini, etc,etc-we can all list promising players at our clubs but it doesn't, hardly ever, mean they will make it mate. Stay realistic, that's all. Josh is the BIG hope at Chelsea and what's the betting that, even though he's been about the ONLY player this pre-season who looks chelsea class so far he'll either languish on the bench and in the reserves or go on loan to bloody Forest os someone else similar?
If what Modric said about Levy promising him a ,ove to a bigger club if one came in for him if he were to extent his spurs contract is true then it's all a bit out of order from spurs and a little naive of Luka but they will never get the best from him again if he feels they lied to him. We may never know, of course, but I don't see Modric as one to lie about that kind of thing-and he's never made any trouble before so why come out calling your chairman a liar if it's not true...
Owen's scoring record at Real is actually very impressive per minute played and his career is only in the state it is through injury while Torres hasn't had time to prove anything either way and joined Chelsea in the middle of their worst run of form for decades. You speak with a very jaundiced view of things I'm afraid.
The other thing is that you could HARDLY say Torres was setting the World alight for either L'pool OR Spain when Chelsea signed the guy. His...
It would be good advice to hi-if he wants to listen as it isn't ALWAYS greener on the other side-Cesc might well, with all Barca's talent, find himself sat on his expensive arse for the bigger games and should Xavi and Iniesta stay free of injury for a great length his chances, and then form, would suffer. Anotjher year at Arsenal is no hardship and woud allow him to see better where Iniesta and Xavi are headed, whether they're going to continue being in and out with injury or whe...
Fifa:why it's the most corrupt, self serving millstone around football's neck in the history of sport. See picture of most dishonest, racist, Anglophobe above. Blatter=SCUM. We all know the rankings are BS anyway-just look how high the USA usually are!!! Or England!