When is match-fixing not match-fixing?
When is giving a team some money to influence the outcome of a game not match fixing?
When is giving a team some money to influence the outcome of a game not match fixing?
Thierry Henry going to the MLS was always a little bit like the 16-year-old kid going off to play football in an under 13s league.
Earlier in the week, I posted a video of Eidur Gudjohnson showing that he’s still got all the skills. Well, enough to bamboozle a MLS reserve side’s defence anyway.
When in doubt, belt it out was the adage given to me in my days playing kid’s football which probably explains why we got beat 11-0 most days.
Roy Hodgson is a smart, intelligent man with a degree in football from the school of hard knocks, a diploma from the college of travails and a couple of gold stars from the nursery of hard yakka.
Sometimes, football moves so fast that you can’t stop and take it in. This clip applies to this idea in two ways.
Apparently ignorance is bliss and this video might well be an example of that.