Monthly Archives: November 2011
Mourinho has the edge this season
One year is a long time in football and I can safely predict that we shall not see a repeat of last year when Barca next meet Real Madrid at the Bernabeu. There have been some exemplary matches ( the last one against Milan was one of them) but this season’s FC Barcelona has matured but seemed to have got tired and somewhat demotivated in the process. By contrast Real Madrid is looking sharp and dangerous, not least in front of goal and all this with a club that appears …
Let’s not forget Messi is human
There was collective intake of breath last night when Messi, seemingly fouled by a Zaragoza defender, clutched his achiles tendon and then started hitting the ground to deal with what seemed excruciating pain. For a brief moment there was a deya vue – memories flooded back of September 2010 when Messi badly injured was subsequently carried off on a stretcher. Messi continued playing last night and once again his presence proved decisive in motivating a convincing Barca victory. It would seem that the main reason Messi plays more matches than …
The dog’s dinner at St Paul’s
What a dog’s dinner the clerics of St Paul’s have made of it. The way they have been going about things shows at best naivety, at worst self-indulgence on an issue they could not have handled more pathetically. First let’s be clear: the British coalition government might be pretty awful in many respects but it is not some South American military junta nor some Middle Eastern dictator, nor is the Met police some repressive, torturing out-of-control secret security force, and nor for that matter are the guys camping outside St …
