Keane

Keane and Vieira, Keown and Van Nistelrooy, Wright and Schmeichel, Wenger and Fergie, Wenger and Mourinho, Wenger and Dugout, 8 and 2, Title and Winning at Old Trafford, we gave your boys one hell of a drawing. Here’s 5 things we learned from the latest war, in this war to end all wars in wardom: […]

 Benno (@Benglorious) Sunderland has been in the news for all the wrong reasons this week, but there is definitely Stadium of Light at the end of the tunnel – the lane closures on the A1231 are necessary for the future construction of the New Wear Crossing bridge. Stay patient, Sunderlishmen and women. Opposition Summary: Sunderland AFC […]

m  Benno (@Benglorious) In lieu of a preview this week, I’m instead going to pay my respects to the best central midfielder the Premiership League has ever seen if you don’t count Keane, Scholes, Lampard, Vieira and Batty.  The platitudes have been coming thick and fast for Gerrard all week, so I thought I’d show […]

  Benno (@Benglorious): Before I begin, I’d like to offer my apologies for my absence from these pages last week.  Ha!  Like anyone even noticed after Brody did his thoroughly researched piece of ghostwriting.  I’d take every weekend off if he was going to fill in for me with such quality, but the fact that […]

Okay, okay that’s the last time I’ll use the KA-POWELL picture as the header for one of these prediction posts – unless he does actually score, of course. Then I guess that buys me at least another five posts, right?! Good. Got a feeling Nick Powell will play – after making the bench against Arsenal […]

We’re inviting some of our Twitter friends to share some of their ‘Pre’ and ‘Post Match’ thoughts with us from now on. You can still enjoy my nonsensical, confusing punctuation buffets, below their personal views on the game… Iwan: (@Iwanlehnert) It’s impossible to look back on Sunday afternoon’s match without focussing on the allegations raised […]

We’re inviting some of our Twitter friends to share some of their ‘Pre’ and ‘Post Match’ thoughts with us from now on. You can still enjoy my nonsensical, confusing punctuation buffets, below their personal views on the game… Iwan: (@Iwanlehnert) Not to detract from the importance of the shocking treatment that England’s under-21 team had […]

I’m going to the pub to watch this game, hence my prediction of an exciting 3-2 thriller. Having said that, I still can’t see us keeping a clean sheet – even though we have kept one – ever (at the moment). AND I can’t see Newcastle competing on all fronts – so fielding an especially […]