Okay, Cup Final. You're the manager. This is the biggest game of your career. You've been
exchanging emails with Capello and reading Zonal Marking endlessly, searching for the answers that
will bring home the silverware. You've made a list of things to tell you players. Then you made
another list.
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During the friendly against Uruguay, it was not only the style of play expectorated out by our boys
in blue that caught the eye, nor simply Riccardo Montolivo's pale, cold, and bewitching face, and
more than just Cesare Prandelli's jacket, it was the dazzling new blue shirts worn by the Azzurri
that truly slapped the mind of this restless footballing warrior (apologies to Elton John for that
metaphor) with the cold hand of seduction, perfumed on the wrist with a heady glamour tinged with
the unearthly fumes of nostalgia, all the while softly intoning in a luscious Pisan accent a call
for it's soft, azure fabric to be worn in sickness and in health, an irresistible siren's call from
an antique realm.
What are the odds Carlos Tevez DOES play for City again? Derek McGovern's Bets of the
Day
Roberto Mancini has suggested Carlos Tevez may still have a future at Manchester City – as if
that's the news he really wants to hear. Mancini says the wantaneck striker will be considered for
first-team duty if he apologises for that Munich mix-up, but that ain't gonna happen.
By Alan Duffy
15 years ago today a rather studious-looking (and relatively unknown) Frenchman took over at
Arsenal. The rest is, indeed, history and while the latest chapter in Arsene wenger's Arsenal story
may not be the easiest to read for either him or the fans of the north London club, it is fair to
say that he has more than made his mark on English football.
By Chris Wright
For no other reason than 'Madman Across The Water' is currently on in the background at Pies
Towers, here's a fifteen-strong gallery of former chairman and current 'Honorary Life President'
Elton John flamboyantly going about his business at Watford down through the years.
I was listening to Elton John's fantastic Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album today as I trod
the familiar track to work in the morning. As the resplendent, epic tones of 'Funeral For a Friend'
died down and Elton struck up the moving 'Candle in the Wind' with the words "goodbye Norma Jean",
I somehow found myself thinking about the departure of Kelvin Wilson from the City Ground [.
Poor old Manuel Almunia really looks like he has had enough doesn't he?
He looks about as interested in playing for Arsenal as Elton John would be in a threesome with
Megan Fox and Cheryl Cole and about as nervous as a virgin in the same situation.
To be fair who could blame him?
