Good morning and welcome to that most exciting of days. Tuesday.
Sorry, I mean Transfer Deadline Day. The day when all kinds of deals go down. Players are traded
like cattle, Premier League slave ships buffet about in the choppy waters scouring for a bargain
here or cast-off there, oh, the fun we'll have.
By Chris Wright
Forest got stuffed 4-0 at Leicester City in the FA Cup third round replay last night. Safe to
say, I don't want to talk about. Quite honestly, it could've been double figures had Leicester not
had the good grace to stop playing for the last half-an-hour.
By Chris Wright
As you are probably aware by now, after 168 years of operation, the News of the World choked on
it's own vomit and went belly-up on Sunday taking with it a sportsdesk that was in equal parts
responsible for breaking some of the biggest footballing stories of recent times (Cristiano Ronaldo
to Real Madrid, etc) as it was for running with some of the trashiest, lowest-common-denominator
gutter toss ever committed to print.
English Premier League
Bolton Wanderers Home Kit:
F-
Starting off with a bang, eh? I'm really,
really trying to refrain from being
downright cruel about this design. First of all, it's messy. There is a heavy NHL influence within
the shirt design itself, whose jersey provider is coincidentally Reebok.
A broadside to mark his departure.
As I wrote earlier it would be wrong to paint Walter Smith as having lived out his final days as
Rangers manager above the fray of Scottish football's navel gazing bickering.
Today's papers would seem to confirm that opinion. The Telegraph reports Smith as saying:
"The season got off to a bad start, in that respect, when Celtic put up a challenge to referees and
to everybody else.
Hello. While I haven't been here, I've been there, there being Canadian Soccer News writing what
will now be a weekly Canadian soccer media column. Please have a look at this week's entry, if you
like.
Normal business hours at AMSL soccer media concern will resume shortly as my employment situation
finally settles (fingers crossed to the point of extreme, vomit-inducing pain!
