Football fans never cease to amaze me.
I mean what more could Real Madrid supporters want? Five points clear at the top of La Liga and more goals that any club ever in the first half of a La Liga season.
There must be 99 per cent of football fans who would give their right [...]
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Jose Mourinho doesn’t do continuity. Instead, he has an almost fail-proof formula for progressing his managerial career: arrive at a club, make them absolutely brilliant and then sod off before it all goes wrong.
The only time he disobeyed it was at Chelsea, their constant near misses in Europe becoming an obsession as he hoped [...]
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The unnecessarily complex guides to how it all works, the use of two-minute video packages where five seconds of oral explanation would suffice and the unappreciated charm of draw master Gianni Infantino: The Spoiler loves nothing more than a UEFA draw.
To get the hype started early for Friday’s Champions League ball-grabbing festivities, here’s who [...]
Read moreAnother summer spree is unlikely to revitalise the frail Old Lady
History states that Juventus are a much bigger club than Atletico Madrid, with 27 Serie A triumphs to [...]
Read moreDIVE! DIVE! DIVE!
As you probably know, the sports papers in Spain aren’t shy about letting their readership know who they totally prefer out of Real Madrid or [...]
Read moreAcceptable in the 80s?
Diving, cheating and bad refereeing isn’t a new phenomenon in football – it’s been going on in foreign countries for years.
Here’s Real Madrid goalkeeper [...]
Read moreTchau, big man
We said our goodbyes to The Real Ronaldo a few months ago when he officially announced he would be calling an end to his jaw-droppingly [...]
Read moreHmm…
Now that all the proper football has finished and we’re left with a summer of reading how Cesc Fabregas will be off to Barcelona any minute and that Man City have bid £3.2billion for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, The Spoiler thought it would be a good time to have a [...]
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