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Royal Architect ready for EPL
Posted on 28 Apr 2012 by thesportingmouth.
Ask any Reading fan if they can believe what has happened to their team in the last 7 months and overwhelmingly the answer will be “no chance”. To put this into perspective, Reading travelled to Doncaster on September 17 on the back of 5 straight losses and needed to win to avoid going bottom of the championship, they got 3 points and started a run of 39 games that yielded 86 poin...
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FA reach tipping point?
Posted on 10 Feb 2012 by thesportingmouth.
In years to come this might be the week that we look back upon as the tipping point. For reference “The Tipping Point” was a book written by a guy called Malcolm Gladwell at the start of this century in which he tries to pinpoint causes of change. Sound boring? Well mainly it is but one interesting insight in the book is that he describes the tipping point as “the moment of ...
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FA fails to lead (again)
Posted on 23 Dec 2011 by thesportingmouth.
And so it continues. The FA have yet again failed to provide any sensible moral leadership after the announcement by the CPS on Wednesday that they will be pressing charges against John Terry for racial abuse. This blog has made it's position clear on John Terry and his inadequacies as England captain so we'll turn our attention instead to this latest abdication of responsibility by the FA. Le...
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Blatter blathers
Posted on 18 Nov 2011 by thesportingmouth.
Leader? Sepp Blatter has been a pompous , self serving, ethically shallow administrator of the world’s only global sport for many years, but his latest comments regarding racism in football travel beyond incompetent buffoonery into the murkier waters of moral bankruptcy. Under Blatter’s stewardship FIFA has sailed a fine line between right & wrong on numerous occasions, but his comm...
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Unfit for purpose
Posted on 4 Nov 2011 by thesportingmouth.
Captain Disaster The phrase “John Terry, England captain” sticks in my throat. Now let me be clear, I’m no Johnny come lately to the” how can this man be England captain” bandwagon – I’ve been a fully paid up member for years but it does seem to me that the allegations against his suitability for the role are so over-whelming that it beggars belief that he’s clung onto the a...
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City Slackers
Posted on 22 Oct 2011 by thesportingmouth.
Manchester City beware. The European signs are that complacency on the pitch has already drifted into the stands and Wednesday night’s Champions league fixture against Villarreal was a case in point. Take other teams enjoying their first foray into the CL & and their fans are at bursting point with excitement, Blackburn A lacklustre night at Etihad stadium in the nineties, Tottenham last ...
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Gator nation has reasons for optimism
Posted on 14 Oct 2011 by thesportingmouth.
With a 4-2 record and 2 thumping losses in consecutive weeks it would be easy to write the Gators out of BCS championship contention, in fact it’s the logical & obvious thing to do. They were stifled by the Crimson Tide in Gainsville 2 weeks ago and dominated by LSU last week, but despite not even being ranked they’re not out of it yet and here’s why. At 2-2 in the SEC East they’re ...
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Rooney ban raises English anxiety levels
Posted on 14 Oct 2011 by thesportingmouth.
Normally the anxiety of supporting England in a major soccer tournament starts a few weeks before the action kicks off. Rooney sees Red in Montenegro In 1996 we had the distraction of some pre season high jinks in the infamous dentist’s chair in Hong Kong whereas 2 years later it was Teddy Sheringham sharing a smoke with a mystery blonde in a Portuguese nightclub. Ahead of the World Cup ...
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