A tug of sadness must be felt in football, especially for Wayne Bridge. You see, his existence is truly a strange one. He trains alone at Manchester City and hasn’t played a first team game since December, but for all the gates around his massive house and the fact that he is taking out Frankie from The Saturdays out on his £90,000 a week still leaves him feeling empty. You see, Bridge is now joining “The Bogarde Club”
During his stints at West Brom and Middlesbrough, the midfeilder was hardly setting the world alight, but when he found himself on Manchester United’s books in 1999, he bagged himself a trio of medals. “I felt a bit of a fraud” he admitted, and I can understand that, he hadn’t played a single minute of United’s European campaign that season.
As the Premier League season came to an end this weekend, Ross Fisher takes a look back – not at moments like Rooney and Berbatov’s overhead kicks against City and Liverpool, but at the naughty moments that have had the media up in arms – finding out that this country’s league has never had it so tame.
In Spain, reports are flying about that apparently, a “major rift” has developed between the winger and manager Jose Mourinho following a blazing row on the training ground, forcing Real president Florentino Perez to consider selling him to the only other club who could afford him, Manchester City.
As Arsene looked at his watch on Sunday, staring down the barrel of a 3-1 defeat to Stoke, he must have been scratching his head for what he needs to do in order to sort a club out which hasn’t picked its head out of the sand since losing in the Carling Cup Final to Birmingham.
Roman Ambramhovic wants the CL Title and doesn’t mind how many P45’s he gives out on his way to achieving it. If Chelsea can persuade/buy out the Turkish FA, we may see Guus Hiddink back at The Bridge in a Directors role, and Marco van Basten taking charge as Head Coach.
The former Chelsea manager has been under constant criticism with regards to Madrid’s negative approach to playing this season and being thumped 5-0 by Barcelona gave critics, fans and even football legends fuel to burn against him, however, in true Jose fashion – he points to 20th April 2011 where Real Madrid won their first Copa del Rey against Barcelona in 18 years to prove that there is method in his ‘madness’.
I have heard football be described as many things – a social thing with mates, an excuse to go to the pub, a place of debate, a passion and even have heard it described as a play.