Football

Fulham lie third but surely as it’s alphabetical we should be second behind Bristol City and above Huddersfield. Most of the so-called experts had Huddersfield at the other end and Newcastle who have lost both games at the top. Can we maintain our best start since Jean Tigana’s  side [...]

The Seagulls maintained their solid start to the season after holding Derby to a goalless draw at the Ipro and following this with a 3-0 thumping of their East Midland rivals last night. John Pargiter called and I advised him the betting moves are Anthony Knockaert first goal and any time scorer [...]

Yesterday at 9.00am there was a knock on the door from the postman. I was expecting a package from Amazon and left a note on my door that should I be out it could be left outside the door. There was a package there but not the one I ordered. Instead it was a package the size of a box of chocolates [...]

Although Newcastle garnered all the pre-match publicity with Fulham hardly meriting  a mention in the build up, we played with intelligence and passion to achieve a deserved win.  The conventional view was that Newcastle – who had bought in Dwight Gayle, Matt Ritchie and Mohammed Diame [...]

Like many I’m underwhelmed by the appointment of Sam Allardyce. His best achievement was at Bolton where he worked the successful model of ageing players on short term expensive contracts but this was at a cost that has left Bolton with enormous debt and now in the third tier. He did not last [...]

Germany finally beat Italy in a tournament but it couldn’t have been closer. The azzurri were without Daniele de Rossi and Candreva in midfield already missing Claudio Marchisio  and Marino Verrati. Germany paid them the highest compliment with a matching 5-3-2 dropping Julima Draxler. The [...]