Articles...
Nov 5 2008
I AM appalled at the treatment handed out to referee Mark Halsey since he sent off Chelsea defender John Terry in the game against Manchester City....
Nov 5 2008
HOW crazy is it that Villa have been forced to play three vital games in six days?...
Oct 21 2008
THERE must be a number of Villa supporters who saw who threw the 50p coin that injured the linesman during Saturday’s game with Portsmouth....
Oct 15 2008
I HAD the relatively new Birmingham City Council Assistant Director for Sport & Events, Steve Hollingsworth, on my SPORTSBAR show last Wednesday and was delighted to see how determined and passionate he is to make Birmingham a sporting Mecca...
Sep 10 2008
THE arrival of “trillionaire” owners from Abu Dhabi to take over Manchester City and turn them from Premier league also-rans into the world’s richest club has set alarm bells ringing for the English game, although very few want to admit that they hear or fear them....
Sep 2 2008
THE summer transfer window closed with not a lot of activity around these parts. The biggest disappointment was the failure of the Villa and Baggies to bring in much needed strikers....
Aug 26 2008
ONE of the biggest changes in football is the fact that many players are now unapproachable, uncontactable and apparently unwilling to speak to the media....
Aug 12 2008
I AM appalled to find police want football clubs to pay for policing streets outside football stadiums on match days....
Mar 19 2008
WHERE have all the defenders gone? That is a question to provoke plenty of discussion and argument over a pint down at the Dog & Duck tonight....
Jan 30 2008
EVERYONE knows football is governed by money, or, more importantly, the greed for money....
