Little Letterhole: What’s a World Cup without Italy?
WHAT’S A WORLD CUP without Italy? Anyone following the draw today, will have been dismayed to see the four-time worldContinue Reading
Category: Football
Paris Saint-Germain’s date with destiny
Tomorrow, the UEFA Champions League begins in earnest. Europe’s biggest names will compete for the football’s most lucrative prize. This season’s champions might just be the upstarts from Paris.
Why has BT Sport axed its best show?
The European Football Show is one of the best football programmes on television. BT Sport’s decision to cancel it is an insult, and proof of how little they think of their viewers.
Little Letterhole: #WengerOut
IT’S ADMIRABLE FOR Arsenal to keep hold of Arsène Wenger, it really is. In an age where managers are tossedContinue Reading
David Moyes is a sexist, but in football, who isn’t?
Is David Moyes a sexist? Has football been abrogating its responsibility to stamp out prejudice through a ‘boys will be boys’ excuse? Is this merely the latest cause célèbre of a press desperate for controversy?
48 ways to kill the World Cup
2026 will mark the death of international football: that year’s FIFA World Cup will be saturated by lesser teams offered a place in a competition ideally reserved for the elite by an inflated pool of 48 teams.
Big Sam’s big sham is the tip of the iceberg
Football has weathered a number of scandals over the past few years. This time, however, Big Sam and his ilk may help to reveal widespread corruption; a product of the game’s age of greed.
The lost clubs of old Germany
In the 1930s, Germany threatened to be a football power, finishing third in the 1934 World Cup. Then, they had a larger country from which to pick talent – an eastern province with a lost football history.
