Football Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
OVER the next few days all attention will be on the transfer window which closes on Wednesday.
Speculation will be rife over who is going to be transferred and for how much but it has been managers who have been mainly in the news in the last week.
Football Diary
By Patrick O’Connor
I live about 20 minutes walk away from Meadow Lane, the home of League One side Notts County, who also happen to be the world’s oldest football club.
They are a modest operation, their last home game attracted a crowd of just under 5,000.
Football Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
WITH parts of the country still smouldering from the wreckage of the havoc caused by rioters and looters, it was sad to witness the opening day of the Premier League spoilt by a nasty squabble between two footballers whose priority should have been to set a example of good behaviour to the watching millions.
The actions of these over-pampered prima donnas impacts on impressionable youth but instead of inspiration we got Newcastle’s Joey Barton and Arsenal’s Gervinho in an ugly spat during the 0-0 draw.
YOU would have thought that with a Champions League final against Barcelona coming up that Wayne Rooney would have better things to do than get involved in a stupid Twitter row.
The Manchester United and England striker replied to an abusive tweet by saying: “I’ll put u asleep within 10 seconds...
ONE of the most depressing things about watching the FA Cup Final between Manchester City and Stoke City last Saturday was hearing the TV commentator say that the scorer of the only goal, City’s Yaya Toure, was reputed to be earning £220,000 A WEEK!
City’s win, following their midweek clinching of a place in next season’s Champions League, means that they are guaranteed to splash out even more millions on transfers during the summer as they aim to mop up all the world’s top football talent for themselves.
Football Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
THE BBC football website regularly includes a very funny satirical spoof TV programme called Special 1 TV featuring puppet caricatures of top football personalities. It is ‘hosted’ by the Special One himself, the Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho. Apparently it was Mourinho who came up with the nickname Special One but the British media adopted it with relish during his trophy-winning spell with Chelsea.