After a hectic weekend in European competition which didn't go particularly well for some of the
Premiership teams, we're back to the bread and butter (or should that be the champagne and caviar)
stuff. No doubt about this weekend's biggest game: Liverpool v Manchester
United on Sunday.
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Quite some time ago I reviewed Brian Glanville's enjoyable novella
Target Man. I've just
finished reading his most well-known football novel,
The Dying of the Light, and it is a
very different book. Longer, far more intense, and of a much darker hue.
This time, the setting is Glanville's native England, and the book's protagonist is Len Rawlings, a
celebrated international goalkeeper who has found it impossible to adapt to life beyond football.
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QPR Report 13 August @ 09:49 AM EST
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Try it! For cutting-edge, updated-throughout-the-day, football-only news about QPR: Visit the
QPR Report Messageboard (and quasi blog)! All views genuinely welcomed! [You can follow
QPR Report on Twitter and QPR Report Facebook]- A Dave Clement Memory
- Bob Malcolm Settling in Australia
- Next: Plymouth vs QPR
- Brian Glanville on the New QPR (and also re Chelsea)
London Informer - Goalkeeper Marshall rejects QPR to join Premiership side- QPR are back to square one in their search for a second keeper after Andy Marshall rejected a
one-year contract last night.
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QPR Report 13 August @ 03:52 AM EST
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Try it! For cutting-edge, updated-throughout-the-day, football-only news about QPR: Visit the
QPR Report Messageboard (and quasi blog)! All views genuinely welcomed! [You can follow
QPR Report on Twitter and QPR Report Facebook]- Brian Glanville on the New QPR (and re Chelsea)
- QPR vs Accrington: The Mike Ferguson Connection
- Video: Exeter vs QPR
- Ex-QPR Stuart Wardley Scores on His Debut
- Ex-QPR Micky Walsh Turns 55
- Flashback: Four Years Ago - Sheffield United at Loftus Road: On and Off The Field Events
- Marc Bircham (and others) League Podcast
- Football Chant Award Goes to Southend United
- Sousa Reflecting
- Martin Ling Back again at Cambridge!
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QPR Report 13 August @ 02:39 AM EST
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Try it! For cutting-edge, updated-throughout-the-day, football-only news about QPR: Visit the
QPR Report Messageboard (and quasi blog)! All views genuinely welcomed! [You can follow
QPR Report on Twitter and QPR Report Facebook]- Video: Exeter vs QPR
- Ex-QPR Stuart Wardley Scores on His Debut
- Ex-QPR Micky Walsh Turns 55
- Flashback: Four Years Ago - Sheffield United at Loftus Road: On and Off The Field Events
- Marc Bircham (and others) League Podcast
- Football Chant Award Goes to Southend United
- Sousa Reflecting
- Martin Ling Back again at Cambridge!
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We're back. I'll post some pictures in due course. While I was gone:
Sir Bobby Robson
Sad news indeed. When I was growing up it seemed like everyone associated with football was
called Bobby, but Robson was the best of them, the England manager. If the England football team
was the pinnacle of all things good, then to be in charge of it.
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QPR Report 31 July @ 01:41 AM EST
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For a different, genuinely-cutting-edge, continually-updated, football-only - and
obsessively-comprehensive! - news about QPR: Visit the QPR Report Messageboard (and quasi blog)!
You're welcome to just read. But you're invited to also post! All QPR perspectives genuinely
welcomed!QPR Report Updated throughout the Day- Reading Interest in Fitz Hall?
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EPL Talk 20 July @ 05:59 AM EST
Each day, I have a 45 minute commute, which means I have one hour and 30 minutes of 'me time' to
listen to the radio, take phone calls, listen to podcasts, or, like I've been doing for the past 12
months, listening to audio versions of some incredible books.
I've been able to make that commute time zoom by and enrich it with top quality books.
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What were UEFA hoping for when they awarded tomorrow's Champions League final to Rome?
Alfresco pasta and vino in the Italian sun, no doubt, as Puccini wafts through the ancient walls of
the Centro Storico and evening strollers pause beside the Trevi Fountain to contemplate 'La Dolce
Vita' over a gelato and espresso.
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It's been a while since I've had a general rant about football tactics in these pages, so herewith
a lengthy and mildly topical ramble.
Brian Glanville, that dean of British football writing, recently commented at length on the pros
and cons of zonal marking/defending. It's a topic worth considering, especially given that the
zonal v.
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Just thought that I would post a link to Brian Glanville's latest column for World Soccer, which
includes his reflections on 2008 and looks ahead to 2009.
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EPL Talk 20 October @ 11:51 AM EST
American football has its John Madden, but among the media soccer doesn't have a recognized
authority figure on soccer? Or do we? Vote now who you believe is the number one authority on
soccer worldwide. <a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1022314/" >Who's the
number one authority in the world on soccer?
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Just thought you would enjoy Brian Glanville's latest article for World Soccer. Brian writes about
some of the issues that I've covered here and provides some additional information.
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Here's a link to Brian Glanville's latest article for World Soccer's website. If you read my
article on Brian earlier in the week then you will get an opportunity to read why his articles are
the best on soccer.
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If you've heard of that name already then you don't really need to read this column. If you haven't
heard of that name and you are a soccer then you do need to read this column. Brian Glanville is
the greatest sports journalist in the English-Speaking world. I have never read a better writer on
any sport then Brian's writing on soccer.
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QPR Report 28 August @ 03:18 AM EST
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Perspective of one of the historically truly great football journalists, Brian
GlanvilleKICKING AROUND / BRIAN GLANVILLE COLUMN - SPORTSTARFunny game
".....And then, there is the curious case of Queens Park Rangers. Hardly analogous, since QPR,
the West London club, have been taken over by three very rich men indeed.
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Goonerboy 18 August @ 11:07 AM EST
Well, on one level, it at least gives us a chance to look at this rather nauseating picture
again.
Mmm. Badge.
I suppose it also signifies that Arsene, and the Arsenal hierarchy, are serious about wanting to
keep him at the club, and that they're willing to improve his wages to achieve this.
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I thought I'd share a few interesting links, one is the latest column from Brian Glanville, the
famous English journalist who has been covering the game it seems like since the first time England
played an international match.
Another is a recent interview published in the New York Times that contains an interview that Jack
Bell did with Samuel Eto'o where he is pretty candid on some recent issues.
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Here at Pitch Invasion, we think limiting the number of foreigners on Premiership teams would do
nothing to help England, and quite possibly would make us even worse (if that's possible). But the
debate over quotas rumbles on. One of the arguments against it comes from those who simply laugh it
off as absurd due [.
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I've never really been a great one for buying football magazines but I've always made an exception
for World Soccer. It always appeared to me to be a far more high brow affair than Shoot and Match
which were the best selling mags back then. On my last trip back to England I picked up a latest
edition and was pleased to see some familiar names there, not least of which was Brian Glanville.
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