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Dalglish gets 3 year contract
Kenny Dalglish has officially been handed the keys to the LFC managers office, on a permanent basis. King Kenny has signed a three-year contract it was announced this week, about blooming time. The job Kenny and his backroom staff have done since taking the reins in January has been remarkable, transforming an underperforming squad to […]
Rovers Fans Kean to see the back of Steve
April 17, 2011 by marksmith81
Blackburn Rovers slumped to another defeat yesterday, an uninspiring 2-0 defeat at a depleted Everton. Whilst the result itself was not a surprise, Rovers boss Steve Kean post match press conference was. After just mustering 2 shots on target over 90 minutes, and forcing one corner, Kean said “I don’t think it was a worrying […]
Houllier or Villian
April 1, 2011 by marksmith81
Gerard Houllier may be public enemy number one with the Villa fans, but the club must stick with the Frenchman. Understandably the fans will be frustrated with Villa’s season, especially with the recent 1-0 home defeat to neighbours Wolves. But Houllier couldn’t have picked a tougher time to take over the manager’s job at Villa. He […]
You Couldn’t Make It Up!
March 3, 2011 by marksmith81
The Premier League season so far has been remarkably unpredictable. With 10 games to go, only 6 points separate 10th to 20th place in the league. You would be hard pushed to predict the relegated trio come May. West Ham who have looked woeful all season are finally starting to play, smashing 5 past Burnley in the […]
Arsenal to end 5 year wait?
January 12, 2011 by marksmith81
Arsenal are looking to end their 5 year trophy drought, with victory in the League Cup. Heavy favourites in their semi-final against Ipswich – who are fresh from a 7-0 hiding at Stamford Bridge. Arsenal should meet either West Ham or Birmingham in the Final. Arsene Wenger has taken this competition seriously this year, and after the […]
Blackburn Jokers
January 4, 2011 by marksmith81
Blackburn Rovers sunk to an embarrassing new low today, they announced their attempted signing of Brazilian playboy Ronaldinho. The Venky’s group, the company who recently bought Blackburn Rovers are jumping from one disaster to another. First, was their bewildering sacking of Sam Allardyce, which you can understand to a point – the new owners might want their own man […]
The Great Rafa Debate
December 22, 2010 by marksmith81
This week’s rumour mill has been going crazy, Rafa Benitez has been in and out at Inter more times than the hokey cokey. It’s still unclear if he is manager at Inter or not? No confirmed reports yet from Inter, but the general consensus is, that Rafa has gone. This has created alot of heated debate on […]
Advantage City?
December 20, 2010 by marksmith81
Can Man City claim top spot in the Premier League? They face an Everton side, who are win less in 7 and are dangerously close to the relegation zone. Should City win tonight, they would sit top of the Premier League at Christmas. This stat is not quite as relevant as being bottom at Christmas, but […]
Newcastle sack Hughton
December 6, 2010 by marksmith81
Amazing scenes at Newcastle today, Mike Ashley sacked manager Chris Hughton after their 3-1 defeat to West Brom on Sunday. I guess 11th place is not enough for some owners, its a crazy decision and one that alienates Ashley even further from the Toon fans. The official line from the club was “Regrettably the board now feels […]
Everyone Loves Rotation
November 11, 2010 by marksmith81
Last nights game at Villa Park saw Ian Holloway make 10 changes to his Blackpool side, something which, as a manager of a football club your entitled to do (in my opinion). Yet, the Premier League are more than likely to hand Holloway a whopping £25,000 fine a la Wolves and Mick McCarthy for fielding […]
Fergie Playing Mind-Games?
November 9, 2010 by marksmith81
Midweek sees a full Premier League fixture list, the stand-out game (apart from Wigan v Liverpool ) is the Manchester derby. Never has the derby match taken on such significance, usually it would be Manchester United heavy favourties but everything for tomorrows game points to a City win. Mancini’s City have performed well in the […]
Roy and Torres shine
November 7, 2010 by marksmith81
Liverpool took on Chelsea on the obligatory Sky Sports Super Sunday. The game before saw a shock in Arsenal rolling over for Newcastle to tickle their bellies and snatch a one nil win at the Emirates, a shock if ever I saw one. Maybe it was going to be a day of shocks? Liverpool were […]
Wengers Statement of Intent
October 28, 2010 by marksmith81
Its been a good week for Arsenal, 2 victories inside of 4 days with 7 goals scored none conceded. The victory on Sunday was massive for Arsenal, no doubting that Boyata’a wreckless challenge and red card after 5 minutes put Arsenal in the control of the game, they could even afford the luxury of a rare missed penalty […]
Liverpool v Blackpool
October 2, 2010 by marksmith81
Liverpool are in desperate need of 3 points this weekend, they face Premier League new boys Blackpool on Sunday at Anfield. I can imagine that the Blackpool playersand fans are relishing this game and in particular the seasiders boss Ian Holloway, everyone knows the mess Liverpool are in after their recent performances and results but this is one game […]
32.5 Million Reasons
August 31, 2010 by marksmith81
The transfer deadline has been and gone, whilst there still maybe a few more deals to announced none will be as high-profile as Manchester City selling Brazilian star Robinho to AC Milan for around £15m. Which is baffling in itself as AC Milan are so skint they had to loan Kevin Prince-Boateng from Genoa in a third-party deal Kia Joorabchian would […]
The Joy of Six
August 23, 2010 by marksmith81
Another weekend passes in the Premier League and another 6 goals for Chelsea, fantasy football indeed. Mind you, it does help when the opposition is as inept as Wigan – even Blackpool put four past them last weekend. Carlo Ancelotti is remaining grounded despite Chelsea smashing in 12 goals in the opening two matches ”It is impossible to […]
Top of the Tower
August 21, 2010 by marksmith81
When you think of Blackpool, you think of the Blackpool Tower, pleasure beach and knotted hankies. Now, its the Premier League which is main attraction at Blackpool. Ian Holloway’s modest, hardworking team find themselves in the land of the giants. No longer will they face Scunthorpe, Barnsley and Doncaster they look forward to hosting Liverpool, […]
Slavia and New Beginnings
July 17, 2010 by marksmith81
Yesterday I went to watch Slavia’s first game of the season against local rivals Bohemians Prague 1905. The match had started with some promise as Bohemians scored a well worked goal in the first minute and Slavia soon responded 15 minutes with a tidy goal themselves. We might as well have gone home there and then, the quality […]
May 13, 2011 by marksmith81
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