Oliver Holt Chief Sports Writer at The Mirror
City will go for it but United have experience and quality to match them. Ability of United's
defence to cope with City attack will be key. 1-1.
Lee Clayton Head of Sport at The Daily Mail
Rooney to score. I'm loving his calmness and his focus.
By Chris Wright
After belting home a glorious half-volley in Milan's 2-0 victory over Lecce on Saturday, Zlatan
Ibrahimovic was involved in yet another fracas with a female journalist (through no fault of his
own, Ibra nearly ran a reporter over outside Milanello a few weeks back) after the
game.
By Chris Wright
Sickening stuff from afore Blackpool's 3-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough on
Tuesday evening, wherein Wednesday mascots Barney and Ozzie Owl launch a vicious and unprovoked
attack on ESPN's FA Cup mascot Buddy using the old 'kneel behind and push' takedown technique
beloved by schoolboys everywhere.
All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award-winning Dirty
Tackle...
Sheffield Wednesday mascots Barney and Ozzy shamelessly assault FA Cup mascot Buddy.
[YouTube]
Man City's 88-year-old mascot. [Kickette]
Classic goalkeeper shirts as art.
Here, in the latest of our book reviews, Ben Summers takes a look at Barney Ronay's The Manager, a
book which surely deserves more than its two current stars on Amazon. The Manager: The Absurd
Ascent of the Most Important Man in Football By Barney Ronay Published by Sphere August 2010,
£8.99, ISBN: 9780751542790 This book's incongruous appearance in Fabio Capello's 2010 World Cup
luggage leant it a curious subplot that could easily have been incorporated into the book itself.
Amidst all the hoopla and hilarity of the season's first managerial sacking in the Premiership -
Steve Bruce by Sunderland FC - it's easy to lose sight of the fact that it typically doesn't help
to sack the manager. To be sure: there often seems to be a bounce-back in results for teams that
appoint a new manager; but statistically speaking, the bounce-back is likely to occur in any case,
with or without sacking the gaffer.
Join Barney on the Santa Dash
Join Anfield legend Alan Kennedy on the Santa Dash in Liverpool on Sunday and help keep the
World Challenge Trophy in the city.
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Henry Winter, The Telegraph
On his 25th anniversary, Sir Alex is being hailed as one of the greatest managers of all time.
Rightly so. He possesses the four qualities that shape the finest leaders of footballing men: he
buys well, bonds well, prepares well and exudes an aura. Never underestimate the power of an aura
in a sport where psychology is key.
Champagne, bags of bank notes and Adidas balls: these were amongst the gifts Macedonian Blagoje
Vidinić received during his African odyssey in the early 1970s.
This was a man who presided over the joint-worst World Cup performance of all time, but also a
man who as a goalkeeper had once rivaled Lev Yashin in many eyes, who had played in Los Angeles,
San Diego, St Louis in a pioneering era of American soccer; a man who as coach took two African
countries to unprecedented heights and managed to change the course of world sporting history, by
tipping off Horst Dassler just in time for the Adidas head to back the right man in the 1974 FIFA
presidential election.
One of the more interesting pieces of Aston Villa news to emerge during the international break
was the club's intention to include a clause in future contracts that would oblige players to live
within 30 miles of Bodymoor Heath. Or at least have a base to use during what constitutes a
"working week" for a Premier League footballer.
As a follow-up to Saturday night's Salute To Heroes celebration and memorial, the New England
Revolution will be launching an online auction tomorrow at biddingforgood.com to raise money for
the 9/11 Memorial Fund. The Fund supports the ongoing development, operation and maintenance of the
new "Reflecting Absence" memorial at Ground Zero that was dedicated this past Sunday.
By Chris Wright
Despite having only played for Barcelona for somewhere around 8 minutes, Cesc Fabregas already
has a trophy to his name after the Catalans beat Real Madrid 3-2 in the second-leg (the first leg
finished 2-2) of the Spanish Supercopa final at the Camp Nou last night.
By Chris Wright
In which Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcelo indulge in a spot of 'football bowling' from the dug-out
in Shanghai, quibble over who's won, bring in Fabio Coentrao and Pepe to adjudicate, realise that
they are useless and go over their heads to Papa Mou who promptly breaks out his high-faluting
'fancy walking' measuring techniques to settle the barney.
Arsenal's team photo for the 2011-12 season is being taken this Thursday and you, and your
junior Gunner, can be part of it.
Thanks to the Gunners' official membership schemes 'The Arsenal' and Junior Gunners, Arseblog is
giving readers one adult plus a child the chance to sit in the Gunners' first team photocall at the
Emirates this Thursday 4th August.
Stop worrying and learn to love Stewart Downing | Barney Ronay
Reports of Stewart Downing moving to Anfield have been met by a shrug from many Liverpool fans.
This is depressing The summer transfer window is the most obvious example of football's refusal
ever to stop happening.
I know I am no Arsenal fan, and actually like any true fan of bitter rival club, I do derive
immense joy from watching the gunners suffer, especially that horror fortnight they had in
Feb/March, to quote the effervescent Barney Stinson,
‘It was Legen.......wait for it........ dary!!
By Chris Wright
David Luiz and best friend, Barney
Perhaps somewhat inevitable given that Chelsea suddenly became interesting again, but the gossip
hounds of the land are having a field day this morning.
Take the Sun for example, who seem adamant that Barcelona are putting together a £27.
BBC2 will be debuting a film on Sunday at 9pm GMT entitled "United." The film tells the true story
of the 1950′s Manchester United side and the 1958 Munich Air Disaster in which 23 people died.
The Guardian's Barney Ronay and camera crew recently...
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By Chris Wright
As you may be aware, UEFA handed Gennaro Gattuso a four-match ban for his little tete-a-tete
with Tottenham assistant Joe Jordan last week which, in addition to the original one-match
suspension he incurred by picking up a booking earlier in the evening , means that the Milan
scrapper will now be unavailable for the next five of the Italian club's upcoming fixtures.
LONDON, England - A second key presenter for Sky Sports News left the network Wednesday over a
sexism row engulfing the British broadcaster. Anchorman Richard Keys resigned after 20 years with
the network, a day after his fellow presenter Andy Gray was fired. The scandal was sparked by
off-air footage from Saturday of Keys and [.
Photograph: TalkSport
Richard Keys has resigned from Sky Sports.
"It is disappointing that Richard's career at Sky should end in these circumstances," said
Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports. "However, Richard recognises that his comments at
the weekend were unacceptable and we note that he has made a full and public apology.
Andy Gray has officially been released from his contract at SkySports it has
been revealed today. This follows the sexist comment incident that took place at the weekend, for
which Gray received a warning.
But, in the days since, an incident that took place in December has caused the English company
to part ways with the controversial soccer pundit.
Sky Sports announced this morning that they have suspended presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray
due to the sexist comments they made about female assistant referee Sian Massey and West Ham United
vice-chairwoman Karren Brady.
"I have spoken directly to both Richard Keys and Andy Gray this morning," said Barney Francis,
managing director of Sky Sports.
The manager has risen from club secretary to official face of the club since the creation of
football teams worldwide. He has moved from the man that kept the record books to man that is
larger than the football team he manages. Commentators and pundits refer to Ferguson's United or
Wenger's beautiful, passing football.
