Ashleigh Rose

Features Editor of KiCK! magazine, the UK's biggest selling monthly magazine for kids, and writer of general football and other ramblings for the likes of Goal.com, Fooball Punk and the offical QPR magazine.

Rosey’s World Cup Round-up day 4

June 14, 2010

Wake-up World Cup I kind of want to grab this World Cup by the scruff of the neck, give a good shake and hope that some quality comes out of it as a result. Because having watched another three games today, the same words keep coming up that can describe the start to this tournament; [...]

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Rose’s World Cup Round-up day 2 and 3

June 13, 2010

England’s aftermarth and German Brilliance Rose’s Round-up day 2 and 3 So now the dust has settled on last night’s proceedings, can we all now agree that the 1-1 draw wasn’t THAT bad? Yes Rob Green has probably kissed goodbye to his number one shirt but was it really fair for Fabio Capello to leave [...]

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Rosey’s World Cup Round-up Day 1

June 11, 2010

The big kick-0ff So there we have it, day one over and done with and boy was it worth the wait. Ok so Group A’s opening games wasn’t the most scintillating  football I’ve ever seen nd nor will it go down as one the best opening days there’s been but it’s certainly wetted the appetite. Of course before the action could [...]

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USA 1994 – When Soccer was reborn

June 9, 2010

Four years after my football inauguration at Italia 90, my education continued when the World Cup travelled to a place where it had boldly never been before. The England-less World Cup full of glitz, glamour, bookmarked by of the worst penalties misses you’ll ever see that was USA ’94. They were supposed to get it, [...]

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1990 – Where It All Begun

June 1, 2010

Every football fan has their own World Cup. The one they remember most fondly and still look back with a feeling of pure footballing nostalgia. For me, my earliest football memories full stop are of a World Cup,  and the show piece of Italia 1990. Yes I know in hindsight 1990 is seen as a dull [...]

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Fulham FC – a model for everyone

April 30, 2010

Last night’s jubilation of Fulham’s win over Hamburg undoubtedly went long into the night in South-West London. However it’s not just fans of the Cottagers who should be celebrating this morning, but fans of every aspiring bottom-half Premier League and Championship team alike. Because what Fulham did last night gave hope to the rest of us th [...]

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Why is the transfer window so dead?

January 27, 2010

It doesn’t matter how much I refresh the ticker, nothing seems to change. From Sky Sports transfer centre to the Yahoo timetable the stories are not changing it what seems to be an awfully quiet transfer window. I’m hoping that the past three weeks have been the calm before the storm and that with a week left, the market is going to go crazy an [...]

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The circus rolls on

December 11, 2009

All that money that Sky must have used up on making Dream Team, they might as well of not bothered and instead just put cameras in and around QPR football club. After three eventful years that have included six managers, a chairman being threatened at gunpoint, new billionaire owners and untimely deaths to young players, today we have the latest ep [...]

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What injury crisis?

December 9, 2009

15 players out. Michael Carrick as a sweeper. 5’8 Patrice Evra at centre-back. Up against the German champions in their own back yard. The result? 3-1 win, only Manchester United. Much had been made of United’s injury problems in the lead up to last nights game but Alex Ferguson once again showed that whatever team he picks they will take some [...]

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The hand of Frog

November 19, 2009

Congratulations FIFA, they’ve got the World Cup they wanted now haven’t they, and I hope their proud of how they got it. It was a ridiculous decision to seed the World Cup play-offs in the first place, and ultimately prevent the the hard-work in qualifying of teams like Ukraine, Bosnia and of course the Republic of Ireland. Then there was last ni [...]

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Owen’s dream is finally over

November 11, 2009

As some of you may have read on here before, I’m a big fan of Michael Owen and have already written a couple of blogs on the Man Utd hitman, in which both somewhere champion Owen going to next summers World Cup. But after Fabio Capello revealed his latest squad for Saturday’s game against Brazil last night, I think we can finally assume that Ow [...]

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The Premier League is wide open – and long may it continue

October 21, 2009

Another weekend of Premier League football and another surprising set of results, proving once again that this is shaping up to be the closet league for many years – and it’s about time too. For us neutrals the Premier League was slowly starting to resemble it’s neighbors north of the boarder, with a top four (rather then a top two) dominating [...]

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