THE BUSINESS END

Written by Daniel Rankine on 7th April, 2008   •  427 views
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It’s the most exciting part of the season. Teams get relegated, promoted, miss the play-offs, put into administration, start planning their holidays (enjoy the beach City), and, of course, the prizes get dished out. The games start to build in importance and the pressure mounts. Alex Ferguson infamously refers to it as ’squeaky bum time’ […]


CRUNCH TIME

Written by Daniel Rankine on 22nd March, 2008   •  471 views
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In case you’re wondering, the title to this piece doesn’t refer to Ashley’s crazy lunge at Hutton on Wednesday night. It’s more about the big four extravaganza (no puns please) this Easter Sunday.
After the emotional roller-coaster of the Spurs game I’m not sure my nerves can take it. Oddly, if we take the lead on […]


FIGHTING BACK

Written by Daniel Rankine on 8th March, 2008   •  419 views
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It still hurts.
Wembley, two weeks ago, and we were twenty minutes from the first piece of silverware of the season. A harsh penalty decision and a freak goal off Woodgate’s face and the game had turned.
It wasn’t any wonder that goal didn’t injure him. Sadly Spurs were well worth the win on the […]


UP FOR THE CUP

Written by Daniel Rankine on 23rd February, 2008   •  433 views
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It’s a strange cup the Carling Cup. Not to look at or anything. It’s your standard, oversized, football tin pot, complete with a couple of ribbons and handles for heroic lofting. I’m not even sure there’s a lid, one to grab and place on the head for a comedy hat routine during the lap of […]


TAKEN FOR GRANTED?

Written by Daniel Rankine on 6th February, 2008   •  186 views
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It was Shrove Tuesday the other day and it kind of caught me by surprise. Not because of the usual reasons; like thinking you’re Tom Cruise in Cocktail, trying an elaborate frying pan toss and ending up with batter on the floor and in your hair. It was because I wasn’t really expecting it. It’s […]


JANUARY BARGAINS

Written by Daniel Rankine on 4th January, 2008   •  191 views
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Every high street shop is still plastered with massive, red sale signs that coat the entire window so you can’t even peer inside. As if you didn’t spend a small fortune over Christmas now you’re being dragged around another soulless shoe store by the other half.
Huge reductions! The signs scream at you, All stock must […]


HOW TO WIN WITHOUT DIDIER DROGBA

Written by Daniel Rankine on 14th December, 2007   •  398 views
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The big man’s out, he needs a knee operation, what can we do? (Bar have a slight panic attack and breathe heavily into a bag?) We can still win, that’s what, and coming into the biggest week since Avram first took over that comes as a bit of a relief.
The obvious starting point would be […]


ANOTHER FINE MESS

Written by Daniel Rankine on 23rd November, 2007   •  120 views
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A week is a long time in football. Last weekend Israel were flavour of the month, not just because of our own Avram Grant, but thanks to the football Gods smiling down on a relived England, a pint was raised to our Israeli friends up and down every boozer in the land.
How we rejoiced. Now […]



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