The King Is Dead (Comments Off)
5/17/12 •
Irony often plays a powerful part in football but did it ever get quite so stuck in as on Wednesday 16th May 2012? As far as Liverpool FC is concerned, possibly not. The day closed with Kenny Dalglish getting the sack from the club where he will always be regarded as a legend. It had [...]
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A Week Is A Long Time In Serie A (Comments Off)
5/17/12 •
The season is over and the verdicts are in. Juventus are champions and are joined in the Champions League by Milan and Udinese (who will have to go through the preliminary qualifying round). Cesena, Novara and Lecce are relegated. As is tradition in this column, we close with the best and worst of the Serie [...]
Quick Quiz (Comments Off)
5/17/12 •
Think you know football? Test yourself with our quick, five-question quiz about the Champions League final. And remember – no-one likes a cheat!
The Rogues Who Ruined Rangers (Comments Off)
5/17/12 •
Imagine you are the financial controller of a multi-million pound corporation. You discover that your new boss might have forged tax invoices for payments that were never made. What do you do? I’d like to think I’d call the cops. But if you’re Ken Olverman, the man in charge of counting the diminished pile of [...]
Legal League: Sky Blue Saturday (Comments Off)
5/15/12 •
So, the sky blues finally wrested the title from the reds. No, not the Barclays English Premiership: the Globe Legal League Hong Kong. Hamsap beat Spartans 1-0 at Kowloon Tsai on Saturday, meaning Jim Kwok’s side take the title from last year’s champions in only their second season in the league. Saturday’s match was a [...]
Neville’s Advocate (Comments Off)
5/14/12 •
Sorry, Roy, you just made your first mistake. Gary Neville’s appointment as an England coach is a ticking time bomb. Not because Neville thought that playing internationals with the three lions was a massive waste of time. And not because he carries bitter feelings towards a minority of idiotic England fans for their disgusting treatment [...]
The World This Weekend (is sky blue) (Comments Off)
5/14/12 •
Missed some of this weekend’s action? Here’s a quick round-up of the weekend’s action from five leagues around the planet. England: Manchester City are champions, but boy did they leave it late. QPR came back from a goal down to lead 2-1, despite having captain Joey Barton sent off for elbowing Carlos Tevez, and City [...]
The Slide (Comments Off)
5/11/12 •
The FA Cup Final last Saturday gave us the opportunity to take a long look at a couple of venerable institutions stuck in deep decline – the competition itself and Liverpool Football Club. Let’s take the Reds first. There can be no doubting the fact that the current side is the worst that has represented [...]
A Week Is A Long Time In Serie A (Comments Off)
5/11/12 •
Six years after being relegated to Serie B because of their orchestration of a large match-fixing scam, Juventus won their 28th Serie A title on Sunday night, thanks to Inter’s 4-2 victory over Milan and the Turin’s side 2-0 win over Cagliari in Trieste. The irony of Juventus owing their title to arch-rivals Inter was [...]
This Week in La Liga (Comments Off)
5/11/12 •
La Liga rolls into the final weekend of the season much as we predicted: Real Madrid and Barcelona on top. We didn’t know who’d finish first or second. We did know one of the Spanish Old Firm would hold the cup aloft, proclaiming themselves champions. Can we predict the future? No. But here’s a spoiler: [...]
Dilemma of the Damned (Comments Off)
5/10/12 •
In 1996, Madeline Albright, then Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, was asked if she thought the death of half a million Iraqi children due to United Nation sanctions was a price worth paying in the cold war against Saddam Hussein. Her answer, amid much humming and ha’ing, was basically: “Yes”. Albright later castigated herself for [...]
Yau Yee League: Cup Stays in Sports Road (Comments Off)
5/10/12 •
Club Wanderers will keep the Yau Yee League Cup for another year after beating USRC 2-0 in a hard-fought final last Sunday. Earlier that day, White Youth won the inaugural Chairman’s Cup, besting Outward Bound Association by three goals to nil. USRC lined up with an attacking 4-3-3 formation, intending to take the game to [...]
South American Shenanigans (Comments Off)
5/09/12 •
What on earth are the Argentinians playing at? They have named their new season after the ARA General Belgrano. This was followed closely by an advert for their Olympic team which depicted an athlete sneaking onto the streets of Port Stanley at 6am to train. The last time one of his fellow countrymen did that [...]
Legal League: Sparkling San Pellegrinos Scoop Silverware (Comments Off)
5/09/12 •
San Pellegrinos won the Globe Hong Kong Legal League’s first-ever Division Two title with a 2-0 win over Legal Head in the title decider at Happy Valley last Saturday. Cyrus Hendry’s side claimed the trophy in their first season in the league. “We are all very stoked with the result,” said Hendry. “We’re thrilled to [...]
The World This Weekend (Comments Off)
5/07/12 •
Missed some of this weekend’s action? Here’s a quick round-up of the weekend’s action from five leagues around the planet. England: Chelsea won the FA Cup, beating Liverpool 2-1 at Wembley. The Blues were comfortably on top until Andy Carroll’s introduction on the hour, and then they had Petr Cech to thank for a wonder save [...]
