Give him a chance...

Scott Parker stepped out for England last Saturday against Wales, as he left the field, he became subject to some rave reviews, and rightly so. Parker looked comfortable in an England shirt; he looked at home in the centre of the park, you’d be forgiven for thinking that he was a regular under Capello.

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Hearn is to apply for a judicial review over Olympic Stadium decision

Leyton Orient's Chairman, Barry Hearn will press on with legal proceedings after hopes of moving to the Olympic Park site received another setback last week.

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Show us the money

At the end of the 2009-2010 season most football scribes and fans of Manchester United foresaw an overhaul of the united squad in the summer.

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Trouble for S6

The days of Italian masters Benito Carbone and Paolo Di Canio strutting their stuff on the turf at Hillsborough, sporting the blue and white stripes, seem a distant memory for the desperate fans situated on S6.

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Five things we learned from England v Ghana

International friendlies are often regarded as dull and meaningless interruptions to the domestic season. However, England wouldn’t have learned these five things, without last night’s thrilling friendly at Wembley

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FC Takoradi – The future of Ghanaian football

FC Takoradi are fast becoming a name in African football after spending the last few years building the foundations for what is destined to be a great club. With a clear focus on seeing the best African talent get the best opportunities to break into the sport, Takoradi has morales and ehtics that are missing a plenty on these shores.

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Wake me up when the season continues please

Wake me up when it’s all over.

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Player withdrawals ruins friendly for spectators

The FA's decision to allow the players participating in the Champions League to return to their clubs is very disrespectful to the clubs fighting relegation.

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Are Ebbsfleet on the ropes?

This is also the club that has battled for financial stability for almost it's entire existence yet has always managed to stay on it's feet, even when the entire board resigned in 1967 leaving just the players,the ground and its debts.

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YOUTUBE - THE BEST ADVERT FOR FOOTBALL YET?

The one that really takes the last bun in the bakers though is this. Zinedine Zidane proving that even if you missed him playing in Soccer Aid last year, he could most definitely do another year in the top flight…after all, the only player who could really tackle him was himself.

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“There’s no place for it in the game”: A series of footballing gripes.

Short sleeves and gloves

Many a player has been a victim of this faux pas for many a year now, with players opting to protect themselves from cold hands, while still bolstering their masculinity by exposing a bit of forearm. Behave! It’s either cold or its not!

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If Carlsberg made football fans… they’d brew them in Poland

Standing on a cold wintery day in the Donny Road end of Glanford Park, four-zip down in a relegation battle, can often prove a drab affair. The same cannot be said if you’re a fan of Lech Poznan’s U11 team.

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Brazil, the new generation

The colour yellow plotted around the Emirates Stadium in north London on Sunday afternoon to support Brazil, but how has the team developed?

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I'd rather be stuck in a mine than be this guy...

I sit on the fence when it comes to diving/cheating/simulation - whatever you want to call it. Nobody likes to see a player in trouble for nothing, and games decided by cheating, but I know that when I play that if there is a minute to go and the only way I was guaranteed a goal was to roll over a loose leg, I’m taking it. Having said this, I don’t think you can justify what you’re about to see:

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Level Stakes - Level Head

Moving on from last week’s ‘Money Matters’ post, I will now develop that idea and look at the level stakes staking plan. There are numerous staking plans out there that are so complicated you won’t know what day of the week it is. A staking plan is a way of controlling how much money you place on each of your bets over a period of time; level stakes betting is the most basic of these and the most suitable for the betting novice.

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