by Gareth Roberts | Aug 25, 2012 | Footie
IT’S close to two years since Fenway Sports Group (then New England Sports Ventures) took control of our club but for some they still can’t do a thing right. Keeping a close eye on how they operate is one thing, being uniformly negative about everything they do...
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 21, 2012 | Footie
IF you’ve ever had the dubious pleasure of working in the office of a big company the chances are you’ve done this. You’ve looked up from your own dull, banal work and focused momentarily on someone on the other side of the room. This person never does a tap. You...
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 10, 2012 | Footie
“It might be one of those situations where it’s not in Daniel’s hands, and it’s up to the owners at the end of the day. “The manager has gone on record and said that every player has got his price, so we’ll have to wait and see, but of...
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 5, 2012 | Footie
IMAGINE walking into a garage, plucking a spanner from the mechanic’s hand and saying ‘hang on, mate – you do it like THIS, I’ve seen it on the telly’. You wouldn’t dream of it, would you? So why do we – the football fan collective – think we know better than managers...
by Gareth Roberts | Jun 3, 2012 | Footie
“Write about Russia, Robbo. One thousand words.” Kinell… In case you didn’t hear it on the podcast, we’re all going to do a bit about a team chosen at random in the Euros. We’ve even roped in a guest or two to help out – check out this...
by Gareth Roberts | Jun 1, 2012 | Footie
IT’S ONLY a press conference. But as press conferences go, this was mightily impressive from Brendan Rodgers. Can he handle the pressure? Deal with the expectations? Handle the egos? Is he experienced enough? Is he the right man? Only time will tell – and it...
by Gareth Roberts | May 25, 2012 | Footie
MUCH was made of John W Henry’s love of Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball. Billy Beane, its star, took the unfashionable Oakland Athletics baseball team to success against the odds using statistical analysis to tear up the traditional scouting methods and identify...
by Gareth Roberts | May 20, 2012 | Footie
IT’S easy to get cynical about comebacks in music. The oft-thrown mud is that these rhythmic reunions recur merely to boost bank balances. In some cases, it’s hard to argue against that stance (hello, Shaun Ryder). But for Cast it looks like it means much...
by Gareth Roberts | Apr 17, 2012 | Footie
THE football bubble is simple. In it, anything goes. People think and act differently. They take leave of their senses. Common sense goes out of the window. Dignity is forgotten; respect means nothing. Abuse is fine in the bubble. Ditto racism, violence and bigotry....
by Gareth Roberts | Apr 15, 2012 | Footie
TWENTY THREE years. Or 8,401 days. Or 201, 624 hours. Whatever way you look at it, it’s a heck of a long time to go without the truth about why a loved one needlessly died. A son, a daughter, a brother, a sister, a dad, a grandad. Cruelly snatched away by a...
