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What do Steven Gerrard and John Terry have in common? They both play at the highest level of
football; they've both captained the English national team; they've both played in a Champions
league final; oh, and they're both arguably xenophobes.
In November 2007, Steven Gerrard hit out at ‘foreigners' in the Premiership, complaining that if
a quota system is not introduced, ‘foreigners' will ‘take over'.
If there is one person who will always have a rant at Arsenal its Tony Cascarino. The former
Chelsea striker is the first one to jump on the bash Arsenal band-wagon. It is his job, but with
Cascarino it is always one way traffic.
When we sold Adebayor and Toure, Cascarino was the first to jump on the anti-Arsenal
bandwagon.
Fernando Torres has jumped aboard the 'Liverpool can't compete because of money' bandwagon.
Displaying a defeatist attitude in public is bad enough, but blaming the team's lack of trophies on
lack of money is worse because, in my view, it just isn't true.
In an interview, Torres said:
"I think we are close to getting a trophy but it's very difficult.
Everton: a model for success teetering on the edge. by Phil Gregory Very easy to stick the knife in
here, but I'm not going to jump on that bandwagon just yet. We all know Moyes has done a fantastic
job with them over the years, but can we really see them breaking the top four as they [...]
I know I´m trying to jump on the bandwagon just as it disappears round the corner, well actually
two bandwagons, like a crazed charioteer out of Ben Hur, but first: what is the point of Emile
´the bulldozer´ Heskey? And second didn´t our boys do well? So that's me nicely caught up to
date and its only Manchester Utd.
It's a pity that Branko Culina's undignified, self-serving comments at Sunday's press conference
have served to obscure the fact that he does have a point. He developed that point somewhat
truculently in his "clarification" today, pausing for a moment to offer Vitezslav Lavicka a
well-deserved apology.
Every so often we see a football site that draws a nod of admiration. The latest to elicit such
a response is the excellent Football Filter, an RSS based news and content aggregator.
http://footballfilter.com is the address - once there you can view football news categorised under
broadsheets, tabloids, blogs, podcasts, and more, and you can search by club.
The net is awash with 'rumours' that Liverpool are to mount a - wait for it - €49m bid for
Valencia striker David Villa. This absurd story is clearly nonsense, but what's funny about it is
how many Liverpool/football sites have jumped on the bandwagon and reported it.
The probably origin of this 'story' was the 'The Daily Mail', who published a typically unfounded,
sourceless article on the 21 September titled: 'Manchester United and Liverpool put on alert as
David Villa hits out at Valencia boss'.
Everton: a model for success teetering on the edge. by Phil Gregory Very easy to stick the knife in
here, but I'm not going to jump on that bandwagon just yet. We all know Moyes has done a fantastic
job with them over the years, but can we really see them breaking the top four as they [...]
Editor's Note: Geoff Reid appears on WVHooligan.com each week. This week he returns with his
series on the life of a Liverpool fan. Feel free to leave Geoff your thoughts below.
It's been a little while since I last posted my thoughts on Liverpool FC. Last time out, the
club had just suffered a demoralizing defeat at home to the hands on Aston Villa, and crisis mode
was being pushed by the media and some fans adding fuel to the already growing fire.
The morning after the day before and the finger pointing of blame has begun following the
shambolic collapse against West Bromwich Albion. The brunt, no pun intended, of the vitriol seems
to be aimed fairly and squarely on the shoulders of manager Gareth Southgate, but for me the
players who took to the field yesterday let themselves, the club and the fans badly down.
On a stormy Saturday night in Columbus, 21,000 fans packed into Crew Stadium hoping to see one
of two things: 1) A Massive win extending an unbeaten streak to 24 games, or 2) David Beckham. I'm
not going to say who was in the majority, but I will tell you that only one of those groups got
what they come for.
Given the title of this article, I could be about to tell you about how the strike duo of Darren
Bent and Kenwyne Jones will be leading Sunderland to new heights in the Premier League this season,
but we will save that for a later date. I'd rather make a bold statement and talk about the bottom
of the table at the moment.
