March 2010

Chester City FC R.I.P.

March 13, 2010

Chester City Football Club were wound up this week, with their 125-year existence ending for the sake of a tax bill. Portsmouth might have gained headlines for becoming the first Premier League club to enter administration but they somehow stagger on with debts of £60m, while the club four divisions below Pompey are now defunct – thanks in part to [...]

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Wayne Rooney – World player of the year – FACT

March 10, 2010

It’s Wayne’s World

Wayne Rooney is in the form of his life, another match winning performance from the world’s best player as United eased past a sorry AC Milan side consisting of ageing stars, some of whom played their final games on the European stage. Forget David Beckham, this was the Rooney show. [...]

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No longer Hes-key for England

March 10, 2010

As Emile Heskey raced through for a one-on-one with Adam Federici I did wonder if the bed-ridden Gabby Agbonglahor had as much chance scoring. I didn’t fancy the big lump finding the back of the net, and by the looks of it neither did he. His tame effort was saved and in that instant Heskey’s season was encapsulated. Plenty of effort but not much e [...]

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Arsenal will crash out of the Champions League tonight

March 9, 2010

Am I the only one thinking that Arsenal will find their Champions League tie against Porto extremely difficult? There’s been no cup upsets in Europe’s 1st tier this season, and I think we’re owed one. No William Gallas could mean that the defence is left badly exposed from set pieces with the appropriately hulking ‘Hulk’ [...]

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A-Z of World Cup Super Stars – E is for Eusabio

March 9, 2010

Struggling a bit this week trying to drop some E’s into the mix, oioi!! So only got a couple but feel free to add some. To make up for the lack of players, I’ve put some goal action in here for you, and not may come better than Brazilian Eders efforts at 82. Éder Aleixo de Assis was a star of the brilliant Brazil team that missed out in Spain de [...]

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A tame week for English football?

March 8, 2010

After a relatively tame week in comparison to most others this season we’ve seen England come through a tough game against the Wembley pitch, Arsenal make scoring look impossible and Man United make Wolves look good, but perhaps the surprise of the week was Scots beating the Czech Republic. [...]

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Join the England team at the World Cup

March 5, 2010

Genuine football legends share how it feels to wear the England shirt

Be our official MARS reporter at England’s pre South Africa training camp. Tell us why you should go and you could be a winner! Click here for more information. [...]

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Carrick Holds the Key to Success in South Africa

March 4, 2010

Last night’s friendly taught us much about the England team as the build-up to the World Cup began, but none more so than that Michael Carrick is the key to exploiting the limited strengths of our national team in South Africa as compared to the likes of favourites Brazil and Spain. [...]

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A-Z of World Cup superstars – D is for Didi

March 4, 2010

With the World Cup less than 6 months away, we have decided to start the build up early doors with an A to Z list of our favourite players who set the World Cup alight. Some are recent stars, some are relics from the days of black and white TV but all were mustard. The thing is, each week we will be using just stars whose surname was that week’s [...]

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England v Egypt preview – just like that

March 3, 2010

Major quickie my bredren, I’m not in no fit state to ramble on about the plight of John Terry’s big I Am Untouchable shenanigans plus I deffo don’t want to pipe up about Ashley I’m Sooo Depressed Cole. It serves you both right. I want to dwell on the re-emergence of Leighton Baines, Warnock, Carlton Cole & Stewart Downing, even if my heads bangin [...]

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World Cup Tips – Avoid England, Back Ghana

March 3, 2010

Ok, the title of this blog is from a betting perspective and not my switching of alliance. For those of you looking to make some money on this years World Cup should avoid England like the plague, the price on England is always a false price in my opinion. Lots of patriotic money is lumped on England during the run up to the World Cup pushing the p [...]

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Is shirt sponsorship in the internet age still a local affair?

March 2, 2010

Manchester United were sponsored by the electronics company Sharp in the early 1990s and it was their logo that the green and gold shirt carried. However, the black kit that replaced it began the trend for United away shirts to promote a particular Sharp product, the Sharp Viewcam. I remember such details because that kit was the first one I ever o [...]

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