by Chris Gilbertson | Apr 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of the best things about football is that it leads to discussion, and divides opinion. Just like the finest art, football is at it’s best when not simply serving to entertain, but to provoke and make the observer think. A few different discussions on...
by Chris Gilbertson | Apr 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
The past few weeks have seen one ‘hot-button’ issue dominate football debates up and down the land: the standard of refereeing. One by one, decision after decision, refereeing controversies are racking up faster than you can spell Mark Clattenberg. I wrote the...
by Chris Gilbertson | Mar 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
“We’re winning away, we’re winning away, how s*** must you be, we’re winning away”. Ah yes, this old chestnut. Home advantage, away day blues or simply a disliking of the unfamiliar, whatever you call it, it’s written in sporting lore. Whichever way you look at it,...
by Chris Gilbertson | Mar 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Several stories surfaced in the press last week about the future of Moussa Dembele. The reports priced our Belgian midfielder at £15m. Although the report first turned up on goal.com, a website that gets stories right about as often as I score Premier League hat...
by Chris Gilbertson | Mar 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
At present it’s fair to say our midfield is fairly well stocked. We have an abundance of wingers (Dempsey, Duff, Ruiz, Dembele, Davies, Riise), central midfielders (Murphy, Sidwell, Etuhu, Diarra) and young talent bursting at the seams to be given a chance (Frei,...
