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Michael Wade

Freelance journalist and talkSPORT webmonkey Michael Wade is a dribbling simpleton, a Reading fan and an unashamed lover of the lower leagues in that order. As such the inner machinations of top-flight football puzzle him - this is demonstrable by his claims that Mick McCarthy, Tony Pulis and Sam Allardyce are misunderstood football geniuses who play the game the right way. He aspires to appear on the Sunday Supplement alongside Messrs Custis and Woolnough and has thrown his weight behind ‘Arry Redknapp to be the next England boss. He also thinks there are too many foreigners in the Premier League.

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… [...]

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Arsenal’s bottlers kiss the title goodbye

December 14, 2010

Patrice Evra was right. Arsenal are a club in crisis and a side which will never win the league under Arsene Wenger again. The French manager has built a team of bottlers – the likes of which Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira would cringe at watching. On Monday night against Manchester United the Gunners never [...]

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Spurs – a side on the brink…

December 7, 2010

Spurs are a team on the brink – of greatness. The side are challenging on domestic and European fronts with unprecedented success for a team with such little experience of doing so. Harry Redknapp doesn’t have the European prowess of Arsene Wenger or Sir Alex Ferguson but he has overseen his team’s beginning to life [...]

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Memo to Pep Guardiola

November 28, 2010

I have just been reading in the Sunday Times that Chelsea or more specifically Roman Abramovich is lining up Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola to replace Carlo Ancelotti at Stamford Bridge. My message to Pep would be a clear one – stay away from the Bridge, distance yourself from the job and under no circumstances buy [...]

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Is Chelsea’s Roman empire crumbling?

November 23, 2010

The Roman Empire at Chelsea has been defined by its emperor’s decisions since it began in 2003. Seven years on nothing has changed. The ruthless and wanton ‘hire em fire em’ tactics employed by Roman Abramovich have not been in the best interests of the club – in fact you could argue that some of [...]

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Liverpool’s Champions League return creeps closer

November 9, 2010

Liverpool’s feted return to the Champions League is not that far away. In fact, the chances of them returning as soon as next season are growing with every week. Last season Spurs caught Liverpool on the hop to nick fourth place. Everything came together for them at once and they got lucky, frankly. Harry Redknapp [...]

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English league no longer the Premier attraction

November 5, 2010

Patrick Vieira’s comments on Thursday that the Premier League is going backwards wasn’t just the withering criticism of a star on the slide. It seems the legendary Arsenal captain has made good use of his time on the bench in Manchester by wryly observing the state of the competition and the failings of his contemporaries [...]

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Mancini is the man for City

November 1, 2010

Roughly a month ago after handing Chelsea their first defeat of the season Manchester City were heralded as being on the verge of global domination by a hysterical tabloid press. Having now lost two games in a row, the News of the World are calling them a club in crisis.
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Chelsea’s investment in youth could pay dividends

October 15, 2010

News of a six-month lay-off for Yossi Benayoun will have been greeted with groans around Stamford Bridge on Wednesday evening. Following the summer sales of Michael Ballack, Deco, Joe Cole, Juliano Belletti and Ricardo Carvalho Chelsea have a smaller and less-experienced squad than any previous season under the ownership of Roman Abramovich as they [...]

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Liverpool and Everton: The case for a ground share

October 7, 2010

Let’s look at the cold hard facts. Both clubs need a new stadium. One of the reasons they are unable to compete with the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and now Spurs and Manchester City on and off the pitch is because of their antiquated grounds. Even West Ham are looking to do something about it, and Tottenham will only continue to [...]

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Clueless Capello running out of ideas and time

October 4, 2010

The bizarre decision to call up 33-year old Bolton captain Kevin Davies smacks of the kind of cluelessness the tabloids tarred Don Fabio with following England’s dismal World Cup showing. It’s fair enough to give someone their first cap but at Davies’ age and the fact he has been ruthlessly ignored for over a decade you would hope we have som [...]

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Wenger to blame for Arsenal’s missed opportunities at the top

September 25, 2010

Wenger has let the club down by not replacing Almunia while he had the chance and now he has to deal with the consequences. [...]

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