25th of May, 1988. PSV win their first, and to date only, European Cup, affirming their place as one of the three biggest teams in Dutch football. The architect of the success is fresh-faced 42 year old coach Guus Hiddink, in his first head management job.
New West Ham boss has rejected rumours that they are ready to bid for the likes of Blackburn’s El Hadj Diouf and Liverpool’s Joe Cole.
Way back in August 2010, when Ryan Giggs was doing what he does in the privacy of not his own bed, Osama Bin Laden wasn’t hanging out with Spongebob Squarepants and Adam Johnson was the saviour of the England team, something depressingly predictable happened; Reading sold their star player.
Sam Allardyce becomes the latest man to take up the mantle at Upton Park, the second appointment by the fearsome Gold, Brady, and Sullivan combination.
Barcelona is dominating club football at the moment not just because they have Messi but because of the system and structure of the team. Even though they have great individual talents, what makes them effective is the willingness of every individual to work for the collective. At the end of most games praises more often than not are directed towards Messi because he is often at the end of marvellous moves by Barca but it is the team effort that sees them dominate teams.
As his words flowed out like endless rain into a journalistic crowd people around the world watched with open mouths. This was supposed to be a press conference to put people’s minds at rest about the issue of corruption in FIFA yet Sepp Blatter sat there brazenly declaring that nothing was going to change his world. Words that he probably imagined as statesman-like wisdom and brilliant rebuttals came across as the slightly deranged responses of a man who’s forgotten exactly why he still needs to appease the uppity peasants in front of him. The 75-year-old FIFA President appeared simultaneously confused and affronted that he was being forced to explain himself to a pack of mangy journalists.
As a sombre Sir Alex Ferguson faced the world’s media after his side’s humbling at the hands of Barcelona, the fiery Scot displayed a graciousness that is seldom seen from this master of media manipulation. “Great teams go in cycles,” said Ferguson of the Spanish magicians, “and they’re at the peak of the cycle they’re in at the moment.”
The Posh, guided by Ferguson Jnr have made it into the Championship only a year after they unceremoniously dropped out of it with a record lowest points. So what is next for Peterborough United, fans will be hoping that 4 managers in one season and relegation won’t be repeated and it seems that messers Fry, Ferguson and McAnthony are learning from their past mistakes.