Football Diary
by Patrick O'Connor
THE family of the Bolton player Fabrice Muamba have posted a picture of him on Twitter from his hospital room – a move which has provided comfort for the Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov who has been diagnosed with acute leukaemia.
Speaking before Saturday's home game against Chelsea, Petrov said that he had taken strength from Muamba's recent battle with ill-health after the player suffered a cardiac arrest during the game at Tottenham.
Football Diary
by Patrick O'Connor
INTERESTING article in the Yorkshire Post about the 'experiment' being carried out by Championship strugglers Doncaster Rovers.
Their chairman John Ryan has recruited agent Willie McKay to bring a host of high-profile names to the club on loans or short-term deals. The idea is that Doncaster do not pay all their wages but that the player gets put in the shop window, having lost out on the opportunity for first team football elsewhere.
A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it's all perfectly clear to the native speaker.
Football Diary
by Patrick O'Connor
WE are in the era of instant communication but that’s not always a useful tool.
Graham Westley, who has just taken over as manager of League One Club Preston, has apparently not made the best of impressions with his new players.
Football Diary
by Patrick O'Connor
TWO of the Premier League's top foreign managers have been upsetting the natives!
Chelsea's Portuguese boss Andre Villas-Boas really put the cat amongst the pigeons by suggesting that top Premier League clubs be allowed to field reserve sides in the Championship.
Football Diary
by Patrick O'Connor
THE job of being a football referee is becoming more difficult every day and recent controversy over who should and should not be sent off for two-footed tackles is not making things any easier.
Indeed, it's almost becoming a witch hunt by television as pundits pour over, frame by frame, every contentious tackle.