Another one. Has on-line football punditry gone mad? Are my socks black? It's round three ladies and gentlemen. There was a time when 'one hundred percent' referred to undefeated streaks. Surely we shouldn't have to remonstrate poor old Liverpool and victimized Chelsea for not winning their third match of the 2008-2009 Premier League season? Click to continue reading...

What do footballers get up to once they retire? Once it was a pretty straightforward choice between finding a way into football management, going to work in a factory or else buying a pub, with the ultimate decision depending largely on how much money any testimonial had managed to raise.
These days players, at least those lucky enough to spend some time in the Premiership, have no such problems. Click to continue reading...

Lawro makes a disastrous move into management... If you've ever wanted to see John Terry being ripped to death by Chihuahuas this is your chance. Having grown bored of punditry Lawro's finally making a move into management with the fantasy football. But with a paralysed Michael Owen, an Arsenal team who won't shoot, and a Sean Wright [. Click to continue reading...

Lawro makes a disastrous move into management.... If you've ever wanted to see John Terry being ripped to death by Chihuahuas this is your chance. Having grown bored of punditry, Lawro's finally making a move into management with the fantasy football. But with a paralysed Michael Owen, an Arsenal team who won't shoot, and a Sean Wright [. Click to continue reading...

This is my 101st post, and it's just to say "Good bye!"  I started this blog to keep track of my articles and reviews for ESPN.com's Soccernet, eventually expanding to mild analysis and poor punditry, all while making connections and forming online and "real life" friendships with some very amazing bloggers and journos around the world. Click to continue reading...

So, with Euro 2008 at an end, I will leave the in-depth tactical analysis of why Spain won over Germany to others better equipped to do so such as career winners losers Steve McClaren, Graham Taylor, and especially this guy,^ who propelled himself to a career of punditry on a bed of boring cliches that [. Click to continue reading...

Is anyone else fed up with the speculation about Cristiano Ronaldo and whether he will leave the ManUre to go to Madrid?

Yes? Me too. So lets not talk about it.

Lets talk instead about last night's match.

I mean are those Italians spoilsports or what? Their style seemed to me to be characterised by a script along the lines of "We aren't actually going to put much effort into winning but we want to make sure you don't either". Click to continue reading...

Shed's Note: Apologies for taking a few days off from my duties of diligently recording my idle observations on sport, but alas- the tainted tomatoes here in the U.S. got me, and I was confined to bed with food poisoning for a few days with nothing but an uncaring cat and even less sympathetic friends and [. Click to continue reading...

This is mainly a shout-out/ass-kisser, so bear with me.

There aren't a lot of must-reads out there when it comes to weekly wraps of Major League Soccer (MLS) action. If I had to name one, though, I'd name Steve Davis' weekend in review wraps for MLSnet.com in a heartbeat. That man stuffs more insight into personnel and tactics into single paragraphs than anyone out there. Click to continue reading...