Youngest international squads in Europe
Most countries have now played four games in their World Cup qualification groups so I thought it would be a good time to take a look at which countries are fielding the youngest and oldest teams so...
View ArticleAfrica Cup of Nations 2013 preview
The draw for the Africa Cup of Nations 2013 took place in Durban on Wednesday. Sixteen teams from across Africa, from Algeria in the north to South Africa in the south, Ghana in the west and Ethiopia...
View ArticleOctober 2012: Best of the Blogs
As the great Ferris Bueller once mused “life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and take a look around once in a while, you could miss it”. Ferris’ aphorism is especially true in the arena of...
View ArticleCardiff City: What’s in a colour?
A few weeks ago I was flicking through the channels on my TV and came across Sky News. They were showing brief highlights of a game from earlier in the day and I didn’t initially recognise who the...
View ArticleGhana and Congo to gain extra places in CAF continental competitions?
With the 2012 CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup competitions almost over I decided to have crack at calculating which African nations are rising through the co-efficient to gain that all...
View ArticleLiverpool’s cluttered flat leaves Brendan Rodgers with problems
As price of players corkscrews upwards, the transfer of mediocre players for incredulous prices has become an epidemic in the English game. Liverpool are probably the main culprit of this practice,...
View ArticleNovember 2012: Best of the blogs
A brilliant new initiative dedicated to documenting great matches throughout history. The Museum of Football contains links to full matches on YouTube from World Cups past. Well worth re-living some of...
View ArticleIntegrating penalty shoot-outs into a nation’s psychology
In 1252 King Henry III enacted the Assize of Arms. This act decreed that all Englishmen between the ages of 15 and 60 must, by law, equip themselves with a bow and arrow. This ensured that Englishmen...
View ArticleDecember 2012: Best of the Blogs
In the excitement of Christmas and new year my monthly round-up of what I found interesting on blogs and the interweb was forgotten. This first piece may be in French, but I’m not sure any words could...
View ArticleBest of the Blogs: January 2013
If you’re a ground-hopping-obsessive-compulsive-disorder type football fan then you might just be interested in taking in five games over two days in beautiful Nottinghamshire. Is it possible to stop...
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