- 41. Weekly Howl 12-08-11
- (2011)
- ... week ~ UE Santa Coloma, Andorra It is possible to make a squirrel appear aggressive, or at least defensive, but the creature is largely ignored by those attempting to create an image of strength and power. ...
- Created on 16 August 2011
- 42. Reading 2 Swansea City 4
- (Match of the month)
- ... echoing Barcelona and passing the ball more often than Arsenal had every right to be baffled by the first half. If being 3-0 up at half-time was, to put it mildly, a pleasant surprise it was the matter ...
- Created on 21 July 2011
- 43. Broadcasting the FA Cup Final
- (TV watch)
- ... before Stacey Solomon, from 2009’s X Factor, sang the national anthem as if she was still competing for show survival. Maybe it was the influence of prime-time ITV, but it almost seemed as if they’d won ...
- Created on 21 July 2011
- 44. Blue burden
- (Clubs)
- Chris Sanderson assesses Birmingham City's mixed season and how a return to the Championship has affected the club's finances and tactics In a Premier League awash with money and abetted by a hyperbol ...
- Created on 21 July 2011
- 45. Boom and bust
- (Clubs)
- ... improve results, but Málaga’s first season in foreign hands was not supposed to be a relegation battle. The takeover of Racing Santander by Indian financier Ahsan Ali Syed in January generated even more ...
- Created on 21 June 2011
- 46. White noise
- (Race)
- ... approach, take account of our own culture. The Spanish tell me: ‘We don’t have any problems, because we don’t have any black players.’” The tone alone left an unpleasant taste, aside from the question ...
- Created on 21 June 2011
- 47. Language barriers
- (Editorials)
- ... for tougher sanctions against Ferguson whenever he oversteps the mark in his criticism of officials. Otherwise campaigns to boost referees’ authority will have no effect until their toughest opponent retires. ...
- Created on 21 May 2011
- 48. Boxing clever
- (Miscellaneous)
- ... has had effects on matchday attendances but in a more subtle way than one might have expected. In the 1980s thousands did take the simplistic view that because the game is on TV it’s not worth going. ...
- Created on 21 May 2011
- 49. Weekly Howl 18-02-11
- (2011)
- ... is a corporate, on-message cetacean. An Uncle Tom dolphin, posing for the camera in such a way as to perpetuate centuries of received wisdom of his kind as non-threatening human sidekick and anti-depressant ...
- Created on 21 February 2011
- 50. Blackburn Rovers 2 Aston Villa 0
- (Match of the month)
- ... last May and has had only two training sessions with his new team. Not surprisingly, his impact is negligible. In fact it looks like he is running in quicksand as he is outpaced by Salgado, of all peop ...
- Created on 21 January 2011
