- 41. 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
- 42. 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
- 43. 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
- 44. 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
- 45. 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
- 46. 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
- 47. Restoring order
- (Europe)
- ... pends on who you listen to. Jol has been predictably sanguine, pointing out that his side were unbeaten for ten months and scored 155 goals last season. "We still are a good team, things will turn out ...
- Created on 21 January 2011
- 48. Weekly Howl 03-11-10
- (2010)
- ... shirt is fondly remembered as embodying a renaissance of sorts at St Andrew's. Under the maniacal Barry Fry and his insistence on expansive, attacking football, optimism returned for the first time ...
- Created on 08 December 2010
- 49. Weekly Howl 24-09-10
- (2010)
- ... of others at Classic Football Shirts --- from Martin Sanders "When Sky Sports News went HD in August, it suddenly started to fall off the left hand side of my telly (it must be all of five years ...
- Created on 28 September 2010
- 50. World Cup 2010 TV diary – Group stages
- (World Cup 2010)
- ... says Tyldesley of a player who’s been in La Liga for four years. He’s lucky not to be sent off for accumulated fouls; when team-mate Aleksandar Lukovic is finally dismissed Tyldesley wrongly senses a referring ...
- Created on 21 August 2010
