Carlisle to join the Scottish League (shame it had as much credibility as a UFO sighting). Stephanie Pride
The Archive
Articles from When Saturday Comes. All 27 years of WSC are in the process of being added. This may take a while.
John Gregory. For the early part of the season his homespun philosophy seemed to mark him out as the footballing equivalent of Peter Sellers’s gardener-cum-sage in Being There. However, once Villa started losing, his true colours came to the fore. Being a poor football manager is something he can be forgiven, but his treatment of Collymore and Merson cannot.His personal attacks on them through the tabloids showed crass insensitivity and an atrocious lack of judgment. Ian Cusack
Robbie Fowler. If someone in the office, a friend, a brother, whoever had acted like he had you’d reassess your job, social life, genes. Joe Boyle
European qualification rules are increasingly becoming a scandalous affair thanks to an unfair points system
No one remembers the losing semi-finalists, so they say. UEFA, however, remember everyone, not only the unlucky losers in the semis, but even the hapless minnows from Azerbaijan, whose representatives bowed out of all three European club competitions in the first round in 1997-98 without so much as mustering a goal between them.
I would doubt strongly whether any Premiership player was contractually permitted to be described as “underrated”. Ken Gall