Post Tagged with: "Football"

  • Around sports round-up

    Girl’s Cricket Haringey Girls cricket team have made it through to the final of the Balfour Beatty London Youth Games to take place this week. Good luck to them. Haringey Independent.   Chelsea All is not well in the Donkey Sanctuary, Abramovich is looking for his eighth permanent manager since 2003 after sacking Andre […]

     

  • Top ten nicknames in football

      David Mentiply takes a look at the top ten nicknames in football;   Killer   Derek Hales was christened with the nickname “Killer” by Charlton fans in the early 1970s. This was due to his lethal finishing (168 goals in 368 games) and the fact that he used to […]

     

  • Charlton Memories: what’s in a nickname?

    It was confusing being a young Charlton supporter in the early 1990s. By the time the ‘92/’93 season kicked off, I had seen my team play at “home” at three different grounds – Selhurst Park, Upton Park, and then finally, we hoped, The Valley. We had two managers: Steve Gritt […]

     

  • The Return of Jason Euell

    David Mentiply looks at the return of a prodigal son.   ‘Jason Euell is starting for AFC Wimbledon today. This is like Henry returning to Arsenal.’ These were the words of one Wimbledon supporter on Twitter yesterday. But whereas Thierry Henry celebrated his return to London with a goal against […]

     

  • Emmanuel Eboué is a hypocrite

    David Mentiply on bigotry in football. Oh dear. Ex-Arsenal player Emmanuel Eboué has well and truly killed satire. I was enjoying reading his tweets of solidarity with Patrice Evra, the Manchester United player who was racially abused by Liverpool’s Luis Suarez. He also expressed admiration for Rio Ferdinand for standing […]