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• 3 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  Thank god the Bradford non-story has ended. Real story: 13 yrs ago, Swans 3 leagues...

      
• 3 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  So, that prize draw we Tokyo-based Brits signed up for at the Club World Cup...

      
• 3 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3735935-afc-bournemouth-party-like-it-s-1999---only-better

  We like to get nostalgic at Bournemouth - or at least I do. And the...

      
• 3 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3730452-dissecting-bournemouth-s-shocking-defeat

  It was a terrible result for League One leaders Bournemouth in every sense of the...

      
• 3 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3730452-dissecting-bournemouth-s-shocking-defeat

  It was a terrible result for League One leaders Bournemouth in every sense of the...

      
• 4 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Match-Fixing: Why The Shock At Old News?

  The most alarming thing about the match-fixing allegations unfurled this week is that responsible journalists are treating it as a new phenomenon! Dirk Kuyt's goal against Debrecen in 2009 should not be singled out as the only effort in English football that a goalkeeper deliberately let in. Fan...

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• 4 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
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• 4 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Moral Hazard? What Should Eden Have Done?

  The BBC's determination to hype-up every possible aspect of the ailing League Cup competition was first underlined by the selection of Jonathan Pearce to commentate on Villa v Bradford. If there's anything that smells like an upset, so says the broadcasting code, just pick someone with the loude...

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    Pat Dwyer Should have broken the little rich man's arse with a... 4 months ago
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    Pat Dwyer Foy is the biggest dick of a ref in the... 4 months ago
• 4 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Wigan travel to Bournemouth for a tricky cup tie. 12 years ago these two were...

  footballdoesandonts AFCB's Five memorable moments against Wigan

      
• 4 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Sean O'Driscoll: Can Bristol City put up with "Mr Happy?"

  I'll preface this report in a kind and honest way: Sean O'Driscoll is good at parts of his job. After a fine playing career, he ascended to managerial duties at the late age of 43, and soon got AFC Bournemouth playing attractive football - at first with a huge amount of loan market help from his...

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    Wayne Hall good luck in your new job sean,always welcome at our... 4 months ago
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    Robert Andrews Wish you all the best in your new role Sean,i... 4 months ago
• 4 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Arsenal: Playing It Simple Is The Best?

  It looks, in all likelihood, that Theo Walcott will sign an extension to his contract at Arsenal, and receive a 33% payrise to boot. The late Christmas present should be cause for particularly hearty celebration. It means he can earn five million pounds a year even if his team fails to maintain ...

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    Insel Affe Staying on the pitch is also fucking important.. 4 months ago
• 4 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Chelsea-Swansea Highlights Football's Gravest Misconception

  Swansea's win against Chelsea, hot on the heels of Bradford's upending of Villa, immediately had the pundits in denial. Graeme Le Saux, formerly of Chelsea's left flank, was quick to praise Swansea for "having a game plan" - seemingly in complete contrast to Chelsea.  But the general gist of hi...

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    Stevie Squires 2 teams that thought abt football rather than the next... 4 months ago
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    Joan Pope thats so true 4 months ago
• 5 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Bradford, Aston Villa, Man United: Busting The Cupset Myth

  On reading the BBC's fawning coverage of Bradford City, you'd think the so-called "Cupset" the Bantams pulled off on Tuesday night was the most incredible football event ever to happen - ever!  Algeria beating West Germany in 1982 - not a patch on it!  The "mighty" Liechtenstein holding ...

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    Steve Perrett Rubbish! 5 months ago
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    Julian Hudson Mr Gould is presumably a hard-bitten Villa fan. This is... 5 months ago
• 5 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  QPR: As good as gone?

  At half-time of QPR-Liverpool, Michael Owen tweeted that it was the most one-sided half of Premier League football he had ever seen. That might have been an exaggeration, but no less outrageous than the assertion that even Owen at this most injury-prone could have scored a hat-trick at the expen...

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    Tris Gilbert I wonder what club Harry will goto after they go... 5 months ago
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    Thomas Franklin Pride has gone from loftus road , the likes of... 5 months ago
• 5 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  Thoughts and prayers for Ndlovu

  A weekend filled with tragic news has unfortunately become more tragic. Former Birmingham star Peter Ndlovu is fighting for his life after an horrific car smash in his native Zimbabwe. The crash has already claimed the life of his brother, also a pro-footballer, named Adam. A female passenger is...

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    Kate Lister Keep in there Peter 5 months ago
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    Ron Corin As a Bluenose of many years I wish Peter a... 5 months ago
• 5 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Club World Cup Final: Chelsea and football lose

  13 points adrift of top spot in the Premiership, out of the Champions League in record time for a defending champion, and now destroyed on the world stage. Japanese TV, looking for any scrap of information which suggests this fading economic powerhouse is still rich and powerful, boasted that o...

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    Ian Stewart Palmer it was such a non-event it wasn't even broadcast over... 5 months ago
• 5 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Chelsea triumph in battle of tosh

  Welcome to not so much the Club World Cup but the Comedy World Cup... of complete and utter footballing tosh.  Welcome to a city called New Yokohama, which looks nothing like Old Yokohama, and simply tries to make something of itself by erecting soulless blocks of flats with a football stadium ...

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    Ard Rua And United thought not taking part in the FA Cup... 5 months ago
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    Gavo Zambra I'm a chelsea fan and I think that club world... 5 months ago
• 6 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Rio Ferdinand coining draws blood and anger

  It's a long time since Nicky Butt and Rohan Ricketts have been mentioned on this site, but out in force they came yesterday, seemingly flung into action by the sight of blood pouring down Rio Ferdinand's face at the Etihad.  While Robin Van Persie's deflected winner may have earned Mancheste...

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    Denver Davids that wanker must be hung, coin tossing faggot! kick his... 6 months ago
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    Michael Piper Don't go taunting the opposition fans then. 6 months ago
• 6 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  The end of l'affaire: Arsene Wenger's time is up

  As protestors in Egypt are now finding out to their banner-waving, photo-burning chagrin, revolutions can only take things so far. The parallel with Arsene Wenger's Arsenal, formerly unbeatable, is all too stark.  The task that the youthful Wenger thrust upon himself, 16 years ago, was to re...

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    Rod McGookin It's a fiasco how Usmanov has 30% of the shares... 6 months ago
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    Richard Russmann Dislike stop spredhing this TRIPE. Unliked Arsenal PRO. Voetsak. 6 months ago
• 6 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Manchester City and Chelsea sacrifice English players for false dream

  Chelsea teetering on the brink of Champions League ignominy. Man City already licking their wounds with smug-faced Mourinhian insults ringing in their ears. Something is desperately wrong with the English game plan, isn't it? Weren't these foreigners with bottomless coffers of bullion suppos...

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    Robert Preece therez 2many many foreigners in the premier league that its... 6 months ago
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    Lucio Aronio Ironic, my two fav teams 6 months ago
• 6 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Harry Redknapp: Watching QPR or hiding from them?

  Harry Redknapp's long-expected appointment as manager of QPR had a few familiar rings to it. The most inevitable of them, however, was his decision to watch the first match after his appointment from the stands.  There once was a time, believe it or not, where managers would wade in to the d...

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    Mark Mav Johnson Yawn....I guess now Sparky has left the building, people need... 6 months ago
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    John Kemsley why you fans bitching, harry is a class manager with... 6 months ago
• 6 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Why Roman Abramovich had the right to fire Roberto Di Matteo

  So another "successful" manager goes and inevitably everyone cries "foul!"  Alan Pardew, whose eight-year contract seemingly gives him a pay-off incentive to be fired early, was among the first to call the decision: "unbelievable."  The League Manager's Association will be cutting...

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    Keith Wright I go along with everything Roman does, Chelsea were crap... 6 months ago
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    Pierre-Amaury Duval Well said Maxim Verschoore ... great intervention ! 6 months ago
• 7 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  

  Lifting the gloom: a radical idea

  With Man City and Arsenal both faltering in Europe again, searching questions must be asked.  They are not, clearly, faltering for the same reason. City's senior squad possesses far more strength in depth than Arsenal's, and should easily be able to withstand the rigors of twin domestic and ov...

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    Michael Murphy Supporting Arsenal requires drowning in doom.. 7 months ago
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    Chris Gould Indeed Paul. I agree. But if you are going to... 7 months ago
• 7 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  20 years since quagmire classic

  October 22nd 2012 marks exactly 20 years since one of the more alarming nights in Liverpool's on-pitch history. Due to the time difference, the Moscow-based game was aired in the UK at about 4pm on a Thursday, something that in the age of all-powerful television companies would never be allowed ...

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• 7 months ago
  
  Chris Gould
  "Stunned silences" on the up?

  Remember the date: 21st October 1992. Ibrox is buzzing to a distinctly ginger beat as Gordon Strachan's right-wing corner smacks into the head of Richard Gough. Then onto the boot of Garry McCallister. Thud. Volley. Stanchion. Goal! What followed was memorably described by the Independent as...

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    Martin Deeley Four months not enough. 7 months ago
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    Ian Gillies Not long enough, should also be banned from all grounds... 7 months ago