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Friday, 28 January 2011

Sian Massey Withdrawn from Officiating This Weekend

1 comment by The Newshound on January 28th, 2011

Official at the centre of the Sky Sports sexism row still awaiting chance to get back to work.

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Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Italy v Ireland Tickets Available For Six Nations Opening Weekend

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Six Nations opening weekend tickets available now. Buy Six Nations tickets online and make sure you don’t miss the action from this year’s tournament.

Friday, 10 December 2010

X Factor Final Weekend Starts Tomorrow: Huge Names Confirmed

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The final weekend of this year’s X Factor competition will begin tomorrow.

Prince UK Tour For 2011 To Be Confirmed This Weekend

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Prince could be set to confirm a UK tour on this weekend’s X Factor final.

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Win Tickets to see Fulham FC take on Aston Villa FC this Weekend with FxPro

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To experience the first FxPro Premier League Clash this season, FxPro is offering 2 lucky ‘Caughtoffside’ followers the chance to win a pair of tickets each to Fulham FC’s home game against FxPro’s other sponsored Premier League Team, Aston Villa FC this Saturday, Kick Off at 3pm.

Friday, 1 October 2010

Weekend reflections and Wolves cup preview

By: DJ | September 20th, 2010

SPURS V WOLVES 16 GD 18 Wolves finally get two home games this week after a 3 week break with Villa in town next Sunday and Notts County first up on Tuesday evening. The cup game will doubtless be another chance to give some competitive action to some of the players on the fringe of the first team plus some academy graduates. No problem with that but I do hope they contrive some better entertainment than the last round when we had to wait until the 120th minute to see off Southend after a very drab game.

Notts County have had some exciting times recently with an investment of funds and Sven Goran Erikson their manager for a while, and Sol Campbell signed up albeit only for one game as it turned out. But even after Sven and Sol moved on it didn’t stop them winning League 2 with ten points to spare last season, and they have made a decent start in League 1, finding themselves halfway after 7 games. 9 of their ten points so far have come from 3 home wins and they haven’t fared as well on the road. There have been 23 goals in their 7 league games so far so they clearly play an open game with 11 for and 12 against. They have put Plymouth and Watford out of the Carling Cup at Meadow Lane in the first two rounds and attract crowds around the 6,000 mark for their home games.

No question that most of the attention of Wolves fans will be directed towards the County number 9. Lee Hughes was an Albion hero for many years and scored more than a goal every two games for the baggies. He moved onto Coventry where he wasn’t so successful before returning to the Hawthorns for an unsuccessful spell where he failed to score a single goal in one what was one of their many relegation seasons in 2002/03. During the 2003/04 season he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving anf played out the remainder of that season while on bail. He was found guilty of the offence and with leaving the scene of an accident and was sentenced to 6 years in prison which he served firstly in Rutland and then ironically in Featherstone prison in Wolverhampton. Since being released he has rebuilt his football career firstly with Oldham where he averaged a goal every two games and then with Notts County where has scored 36 times in 49 games. Wolves fans will doubtless be keen to remind him of his past with a ‘warm’ reception.

Wolves will probably give further Carling Cup opportunities to Hennessey, Elokobi, Guedioura, Halford and Milijas. If fit there may be places for Zubar and Mujangi Bia and maybe also for Ebanks Blake and Berra who missed the weekend game at Spurs. Youngsters like Danny Baath, Scott Malone, Jonny Gorman and Sam Winnall will also be hoping for a game. But the most interesting aspect of the game should be an overdue Wolves debut for summer signing Mouyokolo. The youngster brought in from Hull has a big reputation and Wolves fans will be keen to see how close he looks to being ready for a chance in the Premier League team.

Looking back at the weekend I suppose how you reflect on the Spurs game will depend on whether you are a glass hafl full or half empty person. One view would be that Spurs had plenty of chances to score and missed them or were thwarted by Hahnemann, then Wolves gifted the home side a way back with a blatant penalty then fell apart in the last few minutes. Another view would be that Wolves absorbed what Spurs could throw at them as they did last season, got ahead in the game, made the mistake of allowing Hutton to run 50 yards and then brought him down in the area, and then Spurs got two very lucky goals to win the game. Both those assessments could be deemed realistic and it certainly was not the case that Wolves fell apart after the equaliser because for most of the next ten minutes Spurs were pinned back in their area. But what is unquestionably the case, as if we didn’t know it already, is that when you make mistakes against the better teams in this division they punish you, and Wolves need to stamp out individual errors to get rewards from games like this.

A worry for the weekend is the injury that Jarvis suffered at Spurs and we hope that a week of treatment will be enough to get him ready for the weekend. Meanwhile it seems half the teams in the Championship are queueing to take Michael Kightly on loan when he is fit. He will be boosted by knowing he is a wanted man and lets hope he can get in a couple of months of playing before getting back in the Wolves squad in January.

On the horizon now for Wolves is a run of four games that represent their most difficult spell of the season with trips to Chelsea and Man Utd and home games against Man City and Arsenal. It is vital therefore that Wolves get some points in the bag in the three games preceeding that run against Villa at home, Wigan away, then West Ham at home. At least 4 points and preferably 6 must be the target from these games to keep on schedule to at least equal last season’s finishing position.

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Monday, 13 September 2010

Ten Thing We Learned From the Premier League This Weekend

By: Rob | September 13th, 2010

So after the international break, the Premier League was back with a bang, and a number of huge stories. Wayne Rooney not picked to play against Everton! Joe Hart makes a mistake! Manchester City don’t win! Lets have a look at what we learned.

1. Joe Hart is not invincible afterall.
He dropped the ball nervously for England in midweek, and everyone cringed, but at least that didn’t lead to a goal chance or anything. Sadly he isn’t as invincible as he seemed at the start of the season, as his mistake led to Man City conceding a (rare) goal from open play. He has held his hands up, but presumably Shay Given is rubbing his gloves together.

2. And so, Money can’y buy you wins
City ended up drawing the game 1-1. They’ve been tough to score against so far this season, but considering the amount of money they have spent on attack minded players, they’ve hardly been free-scoring entertainers either. Maybe its Roberto Mancini’s predilection for playing 459 defensive midfielders. Although one of them – Patrick Vieira -scored a nice goal.

3 Fernando Torres is not going to be cut any slack
He’s looked a bit indifferent for awhile, but he did score for Liverpool last week, and for Spain in the week, but a poor (and it really was) performance against Birmingham has meant the knives have come out. Ex-Liverpool midfielder and Sky Pundit Jamie Redknapp has called him out in the press, will be interesting to see how El Nino responds.

4 Wayne Rooney is not irreplacable.
The big story of the weekend was going to be Wayne Rooney, on the back of those revelations about his private life, returning to play his old club, Everton. Except Fergie dropped him and stuck Berbatov up front on his own, and the oft-maligned Bulgarian did a fine job.

5. But sometimes your defence is going to capitulate anyway.
However, he couldn’t stop Man United throwing it away late on, as Everton scored two late goals to draw 3-3. But Rooney wouldn’t have stopped that either, presumably.

6. Arsenal never have to play against 11 men for 90 minutes.
Another game for Arsenal, another opposition player sent off. Who says refs don’t protect them?
7. Chelsea are really rather good.
Not that we learned this, this week, but the space won’t fill itself. Some have been suggesting that Chelsea have looked good against a comparatively easy opening fixture list, and while its true they haven’t really been tested yet, they still have to win the games, and they have been winning them pretty stylishly, and a +!6 GD already speaks volumes.

8. Karl Henry “isn’t that type of player”
A pretty robust tackle against Bobby Zamora broke the latter’s leg, and as always happens in this situation, we have hear how Karl Henry “really isn’t that sort of player”, as if that excuses a bad tackle.

9. Blackpool might be okay.
They might yet be Hull 2010, but Blackpool have got off to a fine start, a 2-0 away win against Newcastle will be very welcome indeed, and they are currently sat in 4th, up in the Champions League places. They may well prove to be okay.

10. And so might West Brom.
They aren’t in quite as good a position as Blackpool, but they got a valuable draw against Spurs, considering that they didn’t really play that well, and were without some of their big players. Maybe they’ll be alright as well.

Category: 10 Things We Learned

Tags: 10 Things We Learned, Arsenal, Chelsea, Joe Hart, Liverpool, Man City, Premier League, Torres, Uncategorized
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