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Sportsthoughts (156) – Dimitri Payet and West Ham: love turns to betrayal
In January, Dimitri Payet, West Ham’s one time hero, refused to play for the club. This is a man apparently on £125,000 a week – football persists in describing salaries as a weekly amount. £6.5 million a year. Refusing to … Continue reading
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Tagged Dimitri Payet, football, London, Soccer, sports, West Ham
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Sportsthoughts (155) – Deadly December!
December, rather than April, is the cruellest month when it comes to the Premier League – for managers. With the transfer window in January looming in January, chairmen start to question whether they want the current manager in post to … Continue reading
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Tagged English Premier League, football, Soccer, sports, West Ham
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Sportsthoughts (154) – So, goodbye Big Sam
Well that didn’t last long! 67 days after Sam Allardyce was appointed to his “Dream job” as England manager, he left “by mutual consent” after a catastrophic error of judgement in confiding to some Daily Telegraph journalists, posing as businessmen … Continue reading
Sportsthoughts (153) – Time for those Premier League predictions!
It’s that that time again, to try to predict the outcome of a Premier League which becomes more unpredictable with every season. Last year was the most extraordinary, with Leicester City, one of the favourites for relegation when the season … Continue reading
Sportsthoughts (152) – Why were England so bad against Iceland?
So we lost 2-1 to Iceland in the last 16 of the Euros. Had we won, we would have been up against France in the quarters, and didn’t have high hopes about that one. But it would have been par … Continue reading
Sportsthoughts (151) – Euro 2016 predictions!
Slightly slow off the mark, as the tournament started yesterday, but France beat Romania as expected, so nothing’s happened to change my views yet. So here are my predictions for the tournament. Guaranteed to be wrong! Winners : Spain Second: … Continue reading
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Tagged England, Euro 2016, Euro 2016 predictions, football, France, Germany, Italy, Soccer, Spain, sports
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Sportsthoughts (148) – The Leicester City phenomenon
Congratulations to Leicester City, winners of the 2015-16 Premier League. Who’d have thought I’d be writing that when I made my predictions for the season back in August last year? I was expecting them to go down, as were many … Continue reading
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Tagged English Premier League, football, Leicester City, Soccer, sports
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