Articles written by Richard Micallef
The flag of St. George had hardly come down from the roof of 10 Downing Street before the inquest into England’s dismal showing got under way. The papers were not sure which way they wanted the FA to go. Some were calling for ...
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June 9th will long remain in my memory as one of the saddest days in forty five years of supporting Chelsea. The official Chelsea website has just announced that Juliano Belletti, Joe Cole and Michael Ballack will not have their ...
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The football world we live in is a strange one indeed. A club in financial crisis goes into money saving mode. They have at least ten players on over a million quid a year but they think that the best way to go about it is to ...
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Barring the biggest FA Cup Final upset since Sunderland, god bless ‘em, beat Leeds in 1973, a week from today we will have won the double. Over the last few years there has been talk of trebles and quadruples but for one reason ...
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Imagine you are Roman Abramovich waking up this morning. Wouldn’t we all love to, but anyway. You open the papers and see the face of the manager you sacked three years ago and the headlines screaming at you. I will reproduce ...
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The Joe Cole will he sign won’t he saga drags on and on. As we all understand Joe is contracted till the end of this season and after that he is free to pack his bag, say his goodbyes and take off to ply his trade elsewhere.
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The weekend results, great as they have been, have led every to believe that winning the double is now a forgone conclusion. Mine may be the voice in the desert right now but hold your horses lads.
It is true that our fate is ...
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Despite the West Ham game next Saturday being an absolutely must win game my mind is very much tuned in to the Champions League tie against Inter the following Tuesday. What with the return of Jose’,
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I normally hate international weeks but this one couldn’t have come at a better time. At least it gets our minds off the catastrophic week that came to an end with the home defeat against Man City.
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Location Malta. Date July 1966. On my dad’s insistence I was made to watch some of the World Cup games on our black and white telly with Italian commentary. I was still a month from my seventh birthday,
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- AT LEAST FOR NINETY MINUTES – The trouble with two legged ties is that you never really know what is a good result in the first leg. Last year we came away from Anfield with a 3 – 1 win and left
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When you’re sixteen your eighteenth birthday and driving licence seem like a lifetime away. At forty you blink and the next thing you know you’re bloody fifty years old.
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According to latest circulation figures The Sun sells 2.86 million copies every day. Its readership nudges 8 million. Its Sunday sister, The News of the World has very similar circulation and readership
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