Wednesday’s 1-1 draw between Arsenal and Liverpool at the Emirates stadium got me thinking about something that’s been bugging me for a while. Away goals.
We all know they’re stupid (and I don’t just mean in situations where home and away games are played in the same stadium) there’s nothing...
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I missed the start of the Birminham City v Arsenal match on Saturday afternoon, but when I entered the pub nearly fifteen minutes after kick-off, I was mildly chuffed when told that I'd only missed three minutes of football despite there being nine on the clock. That was until I saw Eduardo on a...
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All Things Footie* is currently recovering from a serious knee-ligament injury brought on by overwork. Surgery has been performed, and recovery is underway. Speculative reports from the team physios suggest full training will be resumed within a month, and he may be ready for competitive action before the end of February.
So as not to...
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Brace yourself boys and girls, it’s a big one.
The big story at the closing of transfer window was of course Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano’s move to West Ham United. It was—it’s fair to say—out of the blue; a massive surprise to West Ham fans, players and probably the manager too, and as...
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Short and sharp:
The close season is always a dull time for football news. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been tempted to write something discussing the endless, tedious transfer sagas that have dogged the summer: Ashley Cole’s protracted transfer to Chelsea, the van Nistelroij/Ronaldo/Rooney spats, the inexplicably complicated shenanigans surrounding the Hunchback of Marseille (Franck Ribery)...
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Whoops. It’s been a while. Lots going on, not least the World Cup, and I’ve just come back from a holiday in Poland. On to business.
England, and Wayne Rooney, surprised no one by bouncing out of the World Cup on penalties, again. Only on two occasions since 1990 have England...
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Title says it all really. After a woeful domestic season, and some major ups and downs for English clubs in Europe, the World Cup is nearly upon us, and I for one am really looking forward to it. At last, some football that I don’t really care about, that I can just sit back...
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I'm busier than a good looking rabbit in mating season, so I'm going to be brief (better than nothing at all? Maybe).
UEFA are urging Arsenal/Barca fans without a ticket not to travel to Paris; the article interestingly brings up th fact that of the 77,000 tickets released for the game, 16,000 have gone...
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Let’s start with Wayne Rooney—I’ll try and contain my mirth for long enough to finish this paragraph. Wayne Rooney is a nasty little player, he consistently tackles dangerously and gets away with it, he’s abusive to officials, he’s generally unpleasant. I felt nothing but the sweet smell of Karma kicking the horrible little shit...
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So the Champions League is entering it’s final phase, and Arsenal have beaten Real Madrid AND Juventus en route to the semis in four thrilling legs of football. What better way to celebrate than by giving away some free beer? All you have to do is write a piece about the Champions League (any...
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For football’s sake, just finish the season now. Apart from the fact that Chelsea are the most classless and distasteful team in modern memory, it’s just getting boring. As well as being one of the lowest quality seasons in the last decade playing wise, I’m convinced this is the worst season of refereeing I’ve...
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Once more, it’s refreshing to see Jose Mourinho gracious in defeat; after (for once) a ref and a linesman getting a crucial and difficult decision correct, all Moanrinho had to say was:
“It’s a handball so it’s not a goal and the decision is correct.
“What is not correct is the...
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I love it when a story really makes you chuckle. I would hazard a guess that Wayne Rooney has read less books in his life than I’ve scored Premiership Goals, yet that hasn’t stopped Harper Collins signing him up for a minimum five book deal (BBC News) for...
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For fear of being accused that I only write things after a good Arsenal performance, I left it quiet from last Tuesday on. That’s the reason. Honest.
It would be easy to come to the conclusion that I’ve not enjoyed the 2005/2006 Premiership season so far because the team I support have not been...
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UPDATE: The commenting was broken—trust me to not notice that after requesting your comments—but it's fixed now. So opine away…
As you may have noticed (assuming you’ve been here before), All Things Footie has finally had just it’s third tune up in more than five years. Five years, bloody hell. Gone is all the...
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If a Premiership or Football League club goes into administration, the punishment is a deduction of 10 points. No ifs, no buts, just ten points. But why? It seems on the surface a little harsh to punish a club that’s clearly already struggling with a points deduction as well, but there’s a very good...
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You’ve really screwed it up this time.
I saw something on a website a week ago, some kind of petition bertaing the News of the World for unsettling ‘our’ England manager before a World Cup, and criticising the whole ‘Fake Sheikh’ sting. I don’t know exactly how stupid you have to be to fall...
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And one of my few new years resolutions is to get back to updating ATF more often than I’ve managed in 2006. I was going to start with a review of 2006, but that’s a cheap way of filling space given that I’ve made most of my feelings clear over the course of the...
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As this season is clearly about just one team, I thought I’d offer some thoughts.
Shaun Wright-Phillips with wither if he doesn’t start playing regularly. He’s not the kind of player that can sit on the bench and do the business when called on, he needs a proverbial run-up to get the best out...
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