![]() | Where it all began for Mick McCarthyby Chef - on Feb 20th 2012 - No Comments Where the great love affair with Taffy Evans took root… |
![]() | The Unlikely Ladsby Chef - on Feb 2nd 2012 - 1 Comment Have you ever been foiled late doors having avoided the football scores all day? |
![]() | Arsene Wenger when people still loved him – a littleby Chef - on Feb 1st 2012 - No Comments In the latest edition of Heyday, Neil Ardiff captures Arsene in his FC Mulhouse pomp. |
![]() | Heyday – Harry Redknappby Chef - on Jan 26th 2012 - No Comments The first in a new series of cigarette cards from cartoonist laureate Neil Ardiff – featuring all of the Premier League managers at the club where they first played. And Andre Villas Boas with his first tactics board or something. First up, Knighthood outsider Harry Redknapp. |
![]() | Peter Collins shakes off Twitter scandalby Chef - on Nov 10th 2011 - 1 Comment But RTE star set for jungle escape |
Learn Modern Merse – Lesson 1by Chef - on Oct 15th 2010 - No Comments The building blocks of an exciting, if primitive, new language. |
World Cup lookalikes: Anxious Danesby Chef - on Jun 21st 2010 - No Comments Worries Danes hope Bendtner and co have x-factor against Cameroon. |
World Cup lookalikes – Joachim Lowby Chef - on Jun 15th 2010 - No Comments No desperation so far for housewives’ favourite German gaffer Joachim Low. |
Rafa Benitez and…by Chef - on May 25th 2010 - No Comments New series of kids’ favourite takes traumatic turn when the star of the show finds out what her father does for a living. |
The Charter of Reality: Who are the real teams?by Chef - on May 5th 2010 - 4 Comments Lesson 3: A simple guide to dismissing the achievements of all but a handful of teams in history with Eamon Dunphy and John Giles. Positivity will get you absolutely nowhere in football punditry. It’s all very well to flirt with enthusiasm every now and again but you must quickly come to your senses and realise that there is something fundamentally wrong with what you have seen. It is false! Nowhere is this realism more important that in the assessment of great teams. Firstly, of course, there |
Gilesy’s ten footballing commandmentsby Chef - on May 5th 2010 - 3 Comments Lesson 2: The essential building blocks of any punditry career as carved in stone by John Giles. 1. Thou shalt provide honesty of effort 2. Thou shalt defend on its merits 3. Thou shalt speculate to accumulate 4. Thou shalt have the courage of your convictions 5. Thou shalt not know much about them, Bill 6. Thou shalt not worship tactics 7. Thou shalt dictate the pace of the game 8. Thou shalt bring people into the game with bread and butter passes 9. Thou shalt not get involved in showboating |
DH Archive: Jack Charlton – The Irish Yearsby Chef - on Mar 12th 2010 - No Comments And more money for old rope |
Wayne Bridge cannot face John Terryby Chef - on Feb 25th 2010 - 1 Comment Don’t look me in the eye, JT always liked to roar. |