And the crowd pelts the corner kicker with snowballs…
From Brugge v Anderlecht
A certain high ranking member of the Spoiler office would suggest that you DON’T goad a group of hoodies for missing you next time you face [...]
Read moreFrom Brugge v Anderlecht
A certain high ranking member of the Spoiler office would suggest that you DON’T goad a group of hoodies for missing you next time you face [...]
Read moreRomelu scores his 859th goal of the season
Recently, the Daily Mail has got into a habit of picking at random teenage stars prophesied a future greatness by the Harry Redknapp’s Football Manager series, and tenuously linking them to Arsenal.
Today’s Emirates-bound wonderkid is 17-year-old Anderlecht striker [...]
Read moreClear it, clear it!… d’oh!
Everyone’s been there – watching one floating in, planning in your head to hoof it into Row Z, this should be easy enough. Only, [...]
Read moreLukaku – sweet sixteen
Footballers have a fairly swift turnaround, lasting perhaps five years at the top of their game, before eyes start wandering, searching feverishly for their replacements.
Messi is about the forty-seventh “new Maradona”, for a while there Joe Cole was “the new Gazza”, and at one [...]
Read moreWho said nothing interesting ever happens in Belgium?
Sunday’s hotly anticipated Belgian First Division match between Standard Liege and Anderlecht will certainly be a game to remember for Polish [...]
Read moreManchester’s loss is La Coruña’s gain
After failing to impress Gary Megson at Bolton, permanently-on-loan Anderlecht winger Christian Wilhelmsson packed his bags in the January transfer windows and headed for the sunny climes of Deportivo. Yesterday saw the Swede’s first starting appearance in the side, and he helped guide them to [...]
Read moreThe best sports programming on the telebox this evening
It doesn’t take much to be labelled a ‘tactical mastermind’ these days. Where once men like Gustav Sebes and Rinus Michels earned the honour by inventing completely new ways of playing football, now all that’s needed is an enigmatic [...]
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