Editorials

t Hot team A toss up between Manchester City and Bolton this week although Newcastle, Fulham, Tottenham and West Ham all deserve an honourable mention.Although City produced a fine second half performance against Arsenal, it has to be said that the sorry Gunners were there for the taking. Bolton, on the other hand, won well […]

It was great to see some of the unsung heroes of the Premier League getting some of the glory yesterday. I’ll look at who’s hot and who’s not tomorrow morning, but it is right and proper to give some time today to some of the players who deserve some praise yet are rarely in the […]

How did I do last week? I got four right again. Not brilliant, but not too bad. I reckon I might be getting better at this!Saturday 22nd November 2008t Aston Villa v Manchester United Aston Villa looked as though their season might be blowing up after defeats against Newcastle and Middlesbrough but they bounced back […]

I am not an Arsenal supporter and, equally, I don’t particularly dislike them either. I do seem to have written about them much more than any other club so far this season though. It isn’t always about the fabulous style of football that manager Arsene Wenger has got them playing either. It is often about […]

You’ll have to bear with me here. As an England fan aged forty-seven you have to realise that I was just four years old when we won the World Cup. I tell myself that I remember it, but I know I don’t really. So I have been a conscious England fan since the World Cup […]

Can you imagine what would happen to the Premier League if Sky Television pulled out of covering it? It doesn’t bear thinking about. The amount of debt left in the game would be astronomical and the collapse of football in England as we know it would be swift and spectacular.Although it seems very unlikely to […]

The FA’s respect campaign hit another major problem this weekend when Wigan’s Emmerson Boyce was sent-off at Newcastle for two yellow cards.MistakeThere was little argument about the first, but the second was a mistake by referee Andre Mariner as Boyce quite clearly got the ball and not the man.Wigan boss Steve Bruce was rightly angry […]

t Hot team Not only did they win 2-0 at Arsenal, they thoroughly deserved it. Aston Villa had lost two disappointing games against Newcastle and Middlesbrough and it had started to look as though their claim to be considered as potential top four team was simply a false dawn.Then they turn up at The Emirates […]

Fabio Capello said that he would ring the changes in England’s friendly games and he has kept to his word by picking an exciting young squad for Wednesday’s game against Germany in Berlin.UnavailabilityIn some ways the manager’s hands were slightly tied by the unavailability of Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Joe Cole, Wes Brown […]

Three out of ten last week. I’m not going to defend myself, I’m just going to keep on trying!Saturday 15th November 2008t Arsenal v Aston Villa Every week Arsenal let me down! If I predict they’re going to win they lose or draw. Then last week I tipped them to lose to Manchester United and […]