Latest Posts
UKFF Babes
Our Authors
Write for Dexy

December 2010

Too good to go down?

December 29, 2010

With the Premier League tighter than ever before there are a number of decent sides fighting it out at the wrong end of the division and desperately trying to avoid the dreaded drop. Let’s have a look at some of the candidates who at the beginning of the season looked too good to go down… [...]

Read the full article →

The Trouble with Chelsea

December 28, 2010

Lost, languid, lonely… Ancelotti stood motionless on the touchline, both hands thrust in pockets, his mood no doubt as black as his winter over-coat. In complete contrast was the mood of the scoreboard operator at The Emirates Stadium. Surely not even he could have predicted that Arsenal would gobble Chelsea up like a box of [...]

Read the full article →

Next United Manager? Alan Pardew. No, seriously.

December 27, 2010

When that day finally comes that Sir Alex decides to finally hang up his….chewing gum…after such an illustrious career, the question will long have been asked, who is the right manager to succeed him? The obvious contenders will be recycled once more; Jose Mourinho, Steve Bruce, Alex McLeish, Roy Keane, or even Pep Guardiola. Yet, [...]

Read the full article →

Ronaldinho: A fall from grace

December 22, 2010

For a player once considered to be one of the best of his generation, the football world will be shocked to hear that Milan playmaker Ronaldinho is close to returning to his native Brazil to rejoin former club Gremio. Cast your mind back to 2005/2006 season and you wouldn’t find another player in the world [...]

Read the full article →

Gyan: second best African footballer? No chance!

December 21, 2010

The fact that Asamoah Gyan was voted in second place in the voting for the 2010 African Footballer of the year ahead of Didier Drogba in third suggests that the coaches and captains of the 53 nations that make up the Confederation of African Football (CAF) were caught up in the romance of Ghana’s run [...]

Read the full article →

Championship Personality of the Year

December 20, 2010

This years BBC Sports Personality of the Year, known on Twitter as #spoty, did not feature a single footballer. We had a boxer, a golfer, a very good darts player nick-named ‘The Power’ and some Olympians. All lovely people I’m sure but there was nobody representing the nation’s favourite sport. Or rugby. Not even a [...]

Read the full article →

Winter break a must for Premier League

December 18, 2010

Tim Gudgin must be sitting at home, snugly tucked up by a winter fire, safe in the knowledge that he can be in and out of work in five minutes flat – The BBC Final Score reader won’t be too busy today. Weather has obliterated most of the fixture list, rendering football fans deprived of [...]

Read the full article →

Blackburn RAOvers or Mandaric’s Wednesday?

December 17, 2010

It’s been an interesting season so far. Chelsea went on their worst run of form for a decade, United have drawn almost as many as they’ve won and Liverpool were flirting with the relegation zone until Halloween. What’s interested me the most is the mentality of some owners who really don’t know what they’re talking [...]

Read the full article →

Weekly Report: Managerial Madness and the Best Fans Ever?

December 16, 2010

So Mike Ashley isn’t the only retard making decisions about who should run their football team. Not even Sam Allardyce’s fetching purple/yellow/orange tie/scarf/shirt combo could save him from the sack. You would have thought the mid-table safety he’s acquired would be enough – apparently not. And Wales have decided to enlist someone with f [...]

Read the full article →

Manager Swap; Who Should Go Where?

December 15, 2010

With the Premier League serving up another heap of dull results that tell us nothing about the state of this fairly open league, there isn’t a great deal to talk about in terms of title contenders and top four predictions that hasn’t already been said. An area of English football that is worthy of discussion [...]

Read the full article →

Arsene Wenger needs to put up or shut up

December 15, 2010

There is only so much that one can take from another human being before one snaps. I have immense respect for the man from a footballing perspective; he has put so much into the British game as we know it, reforming the entire drinking and dietary culture around the game and contributing a new attacking [...]

Read the full article →

The unsung players of the Barclays Premier League

December 14, 2010

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get a bit tired of hearing about the same old players, coming back from the same old injury, and making their same old comeback. What about the others? The other players who work tirelessly day-after-day, delivering performance after performance, I don’t see any tabloid paper giving them [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries