Mourinho’s Notebook – January 14
The Premier League has confirmed a new TV deal and as expected it’s getting plenty of that filthy lucre. Perhaps now we’ll see a halt to rising ticket prices?
The Premier League has confirmed a new TV deal and as expected it’s getting plenty of that filthy lucre. Perhaps now we’ll see a halt to rising ticket prices?
Another exciting week of footy has come and gone and I'll tell ya what, the leaderboard is tightening up faster then my hammies during pre-season.
Who else but Harry Kane? Who else but the hometown hero, the born and bred Hotspur, the local legend in the making? Of course it would be him to lead Spurs past their biggest rivals and above them on the table.
Welcome to the club, Bill Tuiloma.
This guy scored a goal, but none of our Wellington Phoenix guys scored a goal :(
Another week gone and we have are now into the business end of the season. It's getting down to the do or die stages
Poor Harry Redknapp. His bung knee has gotten so bad that, reluctantly, he has had to resign from his post as manager of Queens Park Rangers effective immediately for surgery.
On Saturday we witnessed history.
Well, there ya go folks. Despite the all the noise from the morons with voices, Winston Reid remains a Hammer for the rest of the season, just as predicted in these pages.
A reminder to fight off those vintage Wellington Phoenix habits
Anderlecht’s Steven Defour returned to play his old club Standard Liege on the weekend, and the opposition fans unveiled this subtle flag, reading ‘Red or Dead’ and featuring a cartoon image of a demonic looking figure in a hockey mask holding Defour’s decapitated head.
Australia has now advanced to the final stage of the 2015 Asian Cup and now have a major chance to add a really nice big piece of silverware to their slightly baron trophy cabinet.
The January Transfer Window. The lone oasis in the gruelling trek across the desert that is the Premier League season. A last chance to restock and re-energise before putting the head down and marching towards the finish line, for better or for worse, with a fixed and finalised squad of players.
It’s really starting to look, as predicted in these pages many times, that Winston sticks with West Ham for the rest of the season.
Aside from many other things, Sylvester Stallone is also a noted Everton fan. So when he needed a crowd bit for his new film he popped on over the Atlantic to Goodison Park.
This was undoubtedly going to be Australia's toughest game yet.
It seems like Arsenal vs Manchester City is becoming the best rivalry of the modern Premier League.
Interesting stuff from West Ham and manager Sam Allardyce, who left Winston Reid on the bench for the game against Hull City this week. Preparing for an imminent departure…? Nah. He was just injured.
FIFA’s annual pat-on-their-own-backs award show was held this week with all of the pretentiously inward celebration that you’d expect of the dictators of the world game.
I have never been in a country whilst a relatively big time football cup has been played and shit it is exciting. I managed to make it out to the Australia v Oman game and boy was it entertaining.