Peter Crouch – fierce
When you look at footballers and their WAGs, sometimes it’s rather hard to see exactly what each member is bringing to the relationship table. Yes, he’s got the money, the high profile job, but what about her? She doesn’t seem to DO anything. [...]
Read moreJoe Cole – magic feet
After a rather forgetable season - which appeared to average a playing time of about 28 seconds per match - most of the football-watching world has probably forgotten that Joe Cole was once a cheerful little pup with [...]
Read moreSol – not paranoid or anything, but…
He’s always been a rather delicate flower, has Sol Campbell – the kind of man who would invite 100 people to his birthday party, only to silently freak out when only 98 turn up. Where were the other two? Did he [...]
Read more*cough* “Pick me!” *cough*
If you happened to be passing through the rather more civilised areas of Manchester last week, you might have passed a jogger who looked almost exactly like Christian Bale in The Machinist, hurtling down country lanes, muttering aggressively to [...]
Read moreLike this, from Spoiler reader, Dave Williams
The Spoiler likes nothing more than an afternoon of arts and crafts, and with the World Cup looming, it’s a great time to attach a World Cup theme to the usual hours of pottery, oil painting, and dicking around on Photoshop.
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Read moreMight this be the starting XI?
Familiar ground now - the England team. They always promise so much, then deliver something frustrating. Can they go all the way this year? And, more importantly, who ARE these people? Read on to find out…
Form Guide
Well, the famous 30 years of hurt [...]
Read moreA serious man
In England’s case, thank sweet baby Moses for foreign managers. Past England bosses have tended to spend tournament build-ups attempting to conjure some kind of stupid bulldog spirit, as if geeing men up in the trenches, secretly knowing that they were about to die.
Not so [...]
Read more“Ow, my foot!”
As is the England tournament tradition, an important player has managed to bugger up his foot just weeks before kick off – namely, JT. And yes, the whisper on the street is that it’s the bloody metatarsal again.
A Chelsea statement reads thusly:
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