Michael Carrick

We’re inviting some of our Twitter friends, and now resident thought sharer Iwan Lenhert, 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 proper good ones…   Iwan (@IwanLehnert): Hands up if you’re also approaching this derby with […]

“We got ourselves a Reading!” as Bill Hicks wouldn’t have said. You still with me? Oh, well … here goes… I’ve never really liked Reading, and the fact they are now sponsored by Waitrose brings out the inverted snob in me – I really want us to absolutely stuff ‘em, like we’ve threatened to do […]

Football’s weird isn’t it? I mean, who’d have thought RVP would be scoring for US in this fixture this season? Weird and wonderful. My silly non-prediction of a repeat of the 8-2 scoreline form last year, as it turns out, wasn’t too far from the reality. I thought Arsenal were guilty of approaching the game with a similar ‘psychosis’ […]

It was almost incomprehensible that this game would pass by without a sharp intake of breath at a controversial decision or two – little did we know we’d be left gasping for air. The game has been overshadowed entirely by the refereeing decisions and alleged comments by Mark Clattenburg, but I’d just like to acknowledge […]

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) That was probably as routine as a come-from-behind victory gets, to be honest. Braga started […]

I did say ‘titter ye not’ at my suggestion of a 1-4 win, and I was right, wasn’t I? Don’t give me any of that, “yeah, but it was 0-3 nonsense”. It’s the same. In fact, if you want to split hairs, technically Danny missed an open goal – so that’s 4. AND they got […]

I’ve made a bold prediction based on copying. Rob, a Liverpool fan – who writes the Bi-focal posts – assures me there is no way in the world we will not win this game. He’s so sure Liverpool will lose he’s locking himself in his house and refusing to watch the game with me – […]

The best thing – BEST THING – to come out of our Champions League opener, for me, was the appearance of Fletch. Now, I’ve learned not to get too excited by these moments from what happened with Hargo … but damn it, I’m excited. I forget he was playing through it last year, so he’s […]

Okay, I’m still on Spanish time and a bit out of the loop on the goings on and such like, so don’t feel qualified to predict with any real insight (Oi, who said, “That makes a change!” sarcastically?). Fletcher is in the squad!!! That’s amazing. We’ve been lucky to stumble into a fixture like this […]

We knew it was coming, and we all (I thought), after some initial kicking and screaming, had come to accept the inevitability of it. Yet, still Roy Hodgson’s overtly pragmatic approach to the  game against France has shaken awake its fair share of detractors. What were these people expecting? As an England fan I have […]