After a recruitment process lasting all of three weeks, Sam Allardyce was last week confirmed as the latest England manager. Big Sam’s reputation is such that he is seen as something of a specialist in Premier League survival; and as such questions are already being asked about whether he is up to the task of […]
After 51 matches and 108 goals, Euro 2016 is now a memory. As the complete football obsessive that I am, it has taken me a few days, as it always does after the big international tournaments, to come to terms with life without football; at least for the four weeks before the start of the […]
Despite finishing third in their group, looking far from convincing on their way through the knock-out stages and losing their star player to injury in the final, Portugal find themselves Euro 2016 winners. Quite how they managed to do it, or indeed France conspired to lose it is a mystery? Portugal’s safety-first, risk-little style won’t […]
Sunday’s Euro 2016 Final sees France take on Portugal at the Stade de France. While the hosts have seemed to gather momentum with each game that they have played, especially in their knockout games; Portugal have won little praise thanks to their pragmatic and quite frankly rather boring approach. Both teams have significant firepower up […]
After the heartbreak of England’s penalty defeats to Germany in 1996 and Argentina in 1998, my wife wisely decided to save herself further misery and drew upon her French heritage and the strong Franco-Gooner connections and became a fully-fledged supporter of Les Bleus. As an Arsenal fan myself, and having lived in Marseille, I can […]
Wales’ progression to the semi-final of Euro 2016 has had a slightly surreal feeling to it; as other, more highly rated teams were sent home, Chris Coleman’s men just kept doing what they do and found themselves facing Portugal, who had looked pretty underwhelming through the tournament thus far. However just as us football romantics […]
Due to my own five-a-side football commitments I only got home in time to watch the last five minutes and then extra time and penalties of the Poland –Portugal match. After an early goal which saw Lewandowski finally get his name on the scoresheet, by all accounts the match was a bit lacking in goalmouth […]
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