Andrew Brown

Why should we have to put up with bland pundits?

September 21, 2010

So Stan Collymore has decided to come out and criticise the Match of the Day pundits and the Walkers Crisps salesman. You might have though that Stan would just be happy to be back on TV after his sacking from the BBC for his car park sexual antics – although he does have to share a studio with Jim Rosenthal now, so maybe there is some justice †[...]

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Tottenham to knock out Champions League opposition

September 15, 2010

For 42 minutes it was all looking so good for the first Englishman to lead a team into the Champions League since Sir Bobby Robson eight years ago. Indeed it was all looking ‘triffic’. Then Assou-Ekotto sliced a ball wildly and needlessly out for a throw on before deciding that, actually, he didn’t fancy getting [...]

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Hey big spender… win a title for me?

August 25, 2010

Manchester City’s victory over Liverpool was, in the end, convincing. Whilst it is a patently obvious statement that an early goal settled them – it would do any team in the world – the game turned when Gareth Barry calmly passed the ball into the net. Before that Liverpool had actually started brightly, buoyed by [...]

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Welsh ambition…. but at what cost?

August 19, 2010

The transfer of Craig Bellamy is that rarest of beasts for several reasons. One, it’s a transfer that justifies the media hype it has generated: one of the best players of the Premier League last season has stepped down to the Championship when he is still performing somewhere near his best. Secondly, a player has [...]

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