AT A time when it’s fashionable to criticise referees I would like to pay tribute to three who stand out as officials and who love the game as much as any fan.Read
IT IS very difficult to be critical of a manager like Martin O’Neill who, along with Randy Lerner, has transformed Villa from a “going nowhere” club under Doug Ellis and David O’Leary into one that is sitting in the top four and is definitely “going somewhere”.Read
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.Read
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 MeccaRead
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.Read