Footballbits and pieces

On 3 January 2004, Plymouth Argyle got off to a brilliant start against Chesterfield, scoring 5 goals in the first 18 minutes. They added 2 more to complete the 7-0 rout and match their biggest-ever margin of victory. Playing before a crowd of 13,109 at Plymouth’s Home Park, the hosts were celebrating their centennial year [...]

Everyone seems to have have their own idea of where England National Teams go wrong. The are always new accusations and FA directives to try and address an issue where the country with arguably the best league, and on balance, as good a player as the best of them, where is it all going wrong? [...]

Its that time of year again when thoughts invariably turn to the ‘new’ and stock is taken of the twelve months that played out hence – and we are no different. As we yet again slide effortlessly over the cusp of a footballing decade and into 2011, we thought it high time to bestow the [...]

While Manchester United fans may argue that Sir Alex Ferguson deliberately picked a weakened team to take on West Ham in the Carling Cup quarter final game at Upton Park last night, we all know that Ferguson put out a team that he thought were capable of getting a result against the Hammers, something they [...]

Judging by the considerable hike in both steward and police presence at St. Andrews (over 500 West Midlands officers were drafted in for the occasion), it’s pretty clear that the relevant authorities were envisaging a bit of a feisty affair between second city rivals Birmingham and Aston Villa in the Carling Cup last night – [...]