Over dinner on Wednesday evening with Mrs Football Nerd and my Dad the conversation, as it always tends to, turned to football. Specifically, the main thrust of our debate centred on the summer transfer of uber-Galactico Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus and whether this might signal a new era for Serie A to regain its status […]
Having missed out on tickets for Liverpool’s last two appearances in the Champions League Final, Our Kid was absolutely thrilled that he managed to secure a ticket for this year’s Final in Kiev, although getting there and back was to prove far more challenging than he thought! Upon learning late on Thursday that his planned […]
So here we are, the FA Cup final is done and dusted for another season and just before we head into the strange limbo-land ahead of the start of the four week football extravaganza that is the World Cup, there is only the small matter of the Champions League Final for us self-avowed football obsessives […]
With the Premier League in a strange kind of limbo with little to be decided at the top end of the table, attention seems to be turning more and more towards the battle for relegation, with all of the bottom ten teams all still under the magical 40 point mark. While not technically safe, it […]
In what is widely being dubbed as the ‘week of comebacks’, this week’s European clashes certainly threw up some drama and excitement in what were threatening to be a number of dead rubber second-leg games. Of course in an absolute classic invocation of Sod’s Law (which for the uninitiated is defined as: the humorous or […]
I approached the FA Cup Final this season in a resigned fashion, utterly convinced of the inevitably of Chelsea winning and completing their second double. However that simple acceptance meant that I was just going to approach the game with a more relaxed attitude and the intention of just enjoying the day as an event, […]
The main focus of the weekend here in England were the two FA Cup Semi-Finals at Wembley; whether you are in favour of the semi-finals being played at Wembley, or as a traditionalist like me think that the big stage should be reserved for the Final alone; it is undeniable that playing these games at […]
My prediction on these very pages only last week that ‘Chelsea’s relentlessness looks set to mean that Tottenham will miss out on the title for the second year in succession, although this year it may well be through no fault of their own.’; only goes to show how little I know, as right on cue […]
Say what you like about Jamie Carragher and his tactical analysis work on Sky Sports but no one could deny that the former Liverpool captain: a) knows a thing or two about defending, or b) played every single game in his career with unquestionable commitment and passion; so when someone like that questions the character, […]
At the risk of angering Mrs Football Nerd, for she long ago grew tired of my near constant insistence that a certain Spanish playmaker was on the verge of signing for Arsenal in 2008 only for Arsène and the board to baulk at stumping up a reported £2 million more and instead watched him depart […]
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