First published in Racing & Football Outlook June 28-July 4, 2011 Summer is an irrelevance to the modern football punter. Yes, there’s a hiatus from match betting – at least in the major leagues – but with player and managerial changes occurring daily, this matchless period is at least as important as the season itself. The managerial…
Monthly Archives: June 2011
VILLA COULD HAVE DONE FAR WORSE THAN BIG ECK
First published in Racing & Football Outlook June 21-27, 2011 The phone rang last week and it was my stepfather, a hardcore Aston Villa fan with unrestrained steam pouring out of nearly every orifice. “What do you think about McLeish?”, asked the almost incoherent pensioner. Apart from a side-stepping comment about Big Eck’s time as manager last…
RAMS’ RELEGATION PRICE SHOULDN’T BE THAT BIG
First published in Racing & Football Outlook June 14-20, 2011 With next season’s fixture list coming out this week – check out our guide to the fixtures on the next two pages – the anticipation of what lies ahead is building. I have yet to conclude my thinking on what I can take from this year…
HUGHES WAS A QUALIFIED SUCCESS AT THE COTTAGE
First published in Racing & Football Outlook June 7-13, 2011 That football has become at times little more than a soap opera for men is never more apparent than when there isn’t any football going on. Once upon a time, the sports pages would have shrunk to a fraction of their size over the previous nine…