IT WAS BETTER BACK THEN
I’m 32. I have to remind myself of this quite often, because I carry around an image of myself in my head, and in it I have the pristine body that someone lent me for a few weeks around my 19th birthday,
Articles written by Rob Hobson
ON THE JOB TRAINING
I have to be honest. You deserve no less… this is CFCnet after all. I expected Manchester United to hit the ground running this season. No fundamental squad changes. No serious injuries, bar the obvious one to their best ...
HOW MUCH DO YOU HATE FRANK LAMPARD?
I’d like to take this opportunity to ask some readers what it is, exactly, that they hate about Frank Lampard. Try and restrain yourself. Just one thing will do. Could it be the badge-kissing? Perhaps it’s his erstwhile ...
NICE HORNS, MR KENYON
Nice horns, Mr Kenyon Hellboy, as we all know, files down his horns to “fit in”. Peter Kenyon probably does it so as not to excite too much comment in the boardroom. But there’s no escaping the comedy pair that ...
LET’S YOU AND HIM FIGHT
Is it possible to have sympathy for the self-professed “biggest club in the world”, Manchester United? Are we able to swallow our natural distaste for the Premiership’s biggest purveyor of double standards? Or ...
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, LET US GET WHO WE WANT
Congratulations to a worthy set of champions for 2008. Despite the drama of the last couple of weeks, the title was always in United’s hands – at the risk of invoking old ghosts, I’m sure José would have approved ...
THE TROUBLE WITH DIDIER
I’m sure you all remember the days when you could shrug off the effects of a hangover by 11, leaving you clear-eyed and bushy-tailed when your elders and betters were still groaning into their coffee. Nights spent curled ...
EPISODE 3 – THE SEARCH FOR A WATCHABLE GAME
I wonder… do Liverpool fans view the upcoming pair of fixtures against Chelsea with the same sense of impending tedium as I do? Probably not. Victory, as any modern Chelsea fan will tell you, goes a long way to relieving the ...
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They pull a knife, you pull a gun. They send off Lampard, you pull a Ballack. That’s the Premier League way. If there is an award for most ham-fisted segue into the concept of “Untouchable”,
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High on the seas of the interactive bunfight that we call the Internet, you’ll find a project called A Swarm of Angels. In as small a nutshell as I can fit it, it’s an attempt to wrest control
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WILL AVRAM HAVE THE LAST LAUGH?
It’s official. Avram Grant is now as good as José Mourinho.This has come as something of a surprise to many of us, who expected Avram to be the very definition of the stopgap manager; the interim
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