They say that lightning doesn’t strike twice but both Equatorial Guinea and Gabon scored late goals in their matches to make the last eight of the African Cup of Nations.. Then again many experts said that Equatorial Guinea and Gabon shouldn’t be hosting the African Cup of Nations as neither country has any real football [...]
Over the Sunday afternoon’s match between Sudan and Ivory Coast was the third match in succession where one of the goalkeeper’s had sported a kit in a horrific shade of purple, making goalkeeper’s look like blueberries and in need of an Oompa Loompa escort to Willie Wonka’s juicing room. It was a lacklustre performance from the [...]
Read any preview of the Africa Cup of Nations and you’ll read expert after expert talk of Senegal’s striking talent. Football being football Saturday’s tie between the Terranga Lions and Chipolopolos didn’t really turn out that way. The undoubted talents of Moussa Sow, Demba Ba, Pappis Cisse and Mamadou Niang failed to fire and it was [...]
The Africa Cup of Nations started on Saturday in west Africa. It’s a competition that gives supporters in Europe of over-saturated leagues a chance to see some new and exciting talent. The opening match in Bata was between the hosts Equatorial Guinea in their first Africa Cup of Nations, and Libya who qualified for the [...]
Chris Coleman has been appointed the new manager of the Welsh national team. An odd fact associated to the appointment of Chris Coleman is that in March 1994 Wales played Norway in an friendly at Ninian Park. It was the solitary game in John Toshack’s first spell as Welsh manager (a spell that lasted for [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a small article selecting the best eleven in Europe who wear the number thirteen shirt. I thought I’d look into this subject further and I believe that if you take the top five leagues in Europe (Spain, Italy, Germany, France and England) that the highest number you can [...]
After similar pieces on League Two, League One and the Championship it seemed apt to do one on the Premier League. The following tables show the Premier League table had the season stretched from 1st January 2011 to 31st December 2011. The first table displays the seventeen teams who spent the entirety of 2011 in the [...]
The following tables show the number of points earned by teams during 2011. It’s very tight at the top of the Championship table for 2011. Reading have the best points average yet it’s Middlesbrough who picked up more points during the year. Both these sides are closely followed by Cardiff City who finish the year [...]
The following tables show the number of points earned by teams during 2011. As there are three teams promoted and four teams relegated from League One, seventeen sides spent the entirety of 2011 in the third tier. Of these teams it was League One play-off finalists Huddersfield Town that ended the year with the best [...]
There are eighteen teams that spent the whole of 2011 in League Two (four teams are promoted each season, and two are relegated). Congratulations to Shrewsbury Town, who despite missing out in the League Two playoffs last May ended the year as the League Two side that had gained the most points (an impressive 86) during [...]
