By Darshan Joshi
Like Martin Luther King Jr., Roman Abramovich has a dream. Or, rather, he had a dream, which
really was less a dream than a looming reality. Problem is, it was ever looming, and it now seems
to have passed him by. The Champions League trophy was on Abramovich's horizon for years,
yet it turned out to be no more than a mirage, a now long-lost memory of hope forgone.
Fernando Torres and Andy Carroll illustrate perils of a striker's lot | Paul
Hayward
Spain and England left out £85m of misfiring striking talent this week but when a
centre-forward is on song it lifts the entire team As any Middlesbrough fan will tell you – just
mention Afonso Alves or Massimo Maccarone as prompts – buying the wrong striker is a peculiarly
calamitous act that invites external derision and internal angst.
