Back moaning about Setanta again. Before watching the Man City/Chelsea game I had left the TV tuned to Setanta for their equivalent to Sky’s ‘Soccer Saturday’ programme. I don’t think I will be doing that again.
Entries Tagged as 'Football'
Match Of The Day
September 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Match Of The Day · Life
Strange times in the football leagues at the moment. Â I took advantage of having Setanta yesterday and subjected myself to their overwhelming yellowness to watch Man City and Chelsea, where City found that having billions of pounds behind them is not going to immediately propel them into the top four of Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and, […]
Tags: Crawley Town·Football·West Ham
Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
September 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Where Did You Sleep Last Night? · Life
I feel a tiny bit guilty about the football last night. While many people are complaining that the England game was not available on free-to-air channels, I had it on Setanta but didn’t watch it. Obviously I’m regretting it now.
Payin’ The Cost To Be The Boss
September 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Payin’ The Cost To Be The Boss · Life
So… Â Kevin Keegan has quit Newcastle, just a day after Alan Curbishley quit the Hammers. Â It looks like they both went for more or less the same reason: they have the traditional view of a club manager being in charge of everything but their clubs are going with the continental system of having directors of […]
Arabian Knights
September 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Arabian Knights · Life
What an eventful day the last day of the transfer window was in the end. As usual a lot of the action and most of the speculation concerned Tottenham in one way or another but it was Manchester City who grabbed the headlines, first for being taken over by the Abu Dhabi United Group, then […]
Tags: Football
Wipe Out
August 31st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
One downside of going out today was that I did not get to see the football results until way after the final whistle, and missed seeing the highlights on Match of the Day, on the day that the Hammers finally came up with a decent result in the league and annihilated Paul Ince’s Blackburn Rovers.
Ibhola Lethu
August 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
Ibhola Lethu is “our football team” in Swahili or some other African language. I think. Anyway, its the title of a song by the mighty Johnny Clegg and his band Savuka and appropriate for speculation about this new football season and particularly the fortunes of not only the Hammers but my team in the Guardian’s […]
Tags: Football
Forgotten Ground
July 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
For the last couple of days there has been a group of caravans parked up in the big layby outside the Broadfield Stadium. Is this the group of travellers who have been in town for several weeks now, setting up home in Maidenbower, Three Bridges, Furnace Green, Southgate, etc.? No. I think they are visiting […]
Tags: Crawley Town·Football·Travellers
Only a month to go now…
July 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Only a month to go now… · Life
August 16th – West Ham v. Wigan. An interesting start to the season. So far there have been no eye-catching new signings, just an Icelandic defender, but if half our invalids are fit for this year it will be like having a whole new team anyway. One the other hand, we have lost Zamora and […]
They think its all over…
June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
Looking back, it could be that England’s failure to qualify for Euro 2008 was a major factor in making the whole tournament so enjoyable. There was no need to worry about how we would do or how other results might effect us, so we could just take it all as it came.
