World Football Columns
Fabio Capello
On Italian Managers & The English Media
Giovanni Trappatoni’s colourful personality flouts animal activists and English professors everywhere, whereas Fabio Capello’s quiet dignity is far more sinister, if the Fifth Estate is to be believed. Continue reading
England v Wales – Capello Forgets Rooney Has A Temper, Rooney Forgets He’s Already On A Yellow
Roger Domeneghetti tactfully avoids suggesting it is past time that Fabio Capello improved his English. Continue reading
How Chelsea’s John Terry Explains England’s Inability To Win The World Cup
With John Terry’s reinstatement as England captain, the tabloid press is stirring up the muck once again. When will its all too willing audience finally get wise to the sham? Continue reading
Superstitious? Everton, Arsenal, Newcastle & Wigan (?) Lead Freakish Prem Goal Barrage
Do you believe in astrology or numerology? While I’m not devoted to either ‘science’, they’re always interesting topics for conversation. I was born on the twelfth day of the twelfth month, which is coincidence enough to perk my interest in numerical relationships. As for the stars, I’m either a Cat or a Rabbit, dependent upon … Continue reading
WFC’s Eleventh Day Of Christmas: Eleven Gaffers Griping
On the Eleventh Day of Christmas, FIFA gave to me Eleven Gaffers Griping Ten Matches Amazing, Nine Wags Enchanting, Eight Landons Leading, Seven Studs-a-Stomping, Six Meals-a-Making, Five Golden Goooooooooooaaaaaaaaalllllss!! Four Failing Clubs, Three French Men, Two Keeper’s Gloves and A Whistle Happy Referee A great deal goes into the making of a good manager. Obviously, … Continue reading
A Tale Of Two Bids: Sweating the 2018 & 22 FIFA World Cup Vote
From the English perspective, as regards Tuesday’s World Cup vote on the 2018 and 2022 host nations, the glass is more than half empty. The media, famous for scarfing down complimentary fare at league matches as though they were shipping out to Ethiopa the next day, have drank their fill from the bottomless cup of … Continue reading
Capello’s England Shown How To Start With A Blanc Slate
(This article is a follow-up to Fun With Larry and Fab, written by Tapesh and Jude Ellery) So, we all saw the match on Wednesday (or highlights of it). We all know that 2-1 was a flattering scoreline for the English Bambi which was caught in France’s headlights. However, the symptoms of England’s demise run … Continue reading
Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters or How I Spent My International Break
Actually, it should be Fabio Capello trying to get falling down drunk while Laurent Blanc conducts the magnum opus but England’s off-key performance against France has to go on the back burner, for the moment. The more important question to the world of football, at large, and we are World Football Columns, is what in … Continue reading
Fun With Larry and Fab!
France and England. To say they have a history together is like saying that Liverpool are having a spot of bother or that Gazza has a drink now and then. You would think that neighbours who have lived next to each other for so long would learn to get along but for centuries before … Continue reading
A Sunday Sermon
Those of you who read the Artur Boruc Rage List @ Dirty Tackle religiously, as is required of all WFC columnists, will know of the Fiorentina keeper’s fear of the great corn conspiracy. Unfortunately, there is another conspiracy which continues to seek inroads in the western world. I speak of the ever-growing power of the … Continue reading
Did You Catch It? 2-3 Oct. 2010
Went antiquing with the missus? Drop your Blackberry down a well? Get distracted by a weekend marathon of On The Buses? WFC has you covered. All the best matches in review and a youtube smorgasbord, to boot! Continue reading
Did You Catch It? 3-5 Sept. 2010
The international weekend in review! Continue reading
Catch Them If You Can — 3-5 Sept. 2010
Between oddly scheduled Euro qualifiers and a holiday Monday in America, it’s a really long weekend of footy. Continue reading
Over A Pint — Mikel Arteta & Making Sense Of The Rules of Eligibility
Here we go again. Over A Pint is back and once again we’re talking about the travails of the Three Lions. It seems that they really can drive you to drink. This time the debate has been sparked by the willingness of Mikel Arteta to play for England. Even though he’s just been ruled ineligible, the ever increasing amount of foreign players in international squads begs the question of just where club football ends and the international variety begins. Continue reading
Friday, 13 (yikes!) Aug. — Speaking In Code
Breaking through the PC barrier to find out what football personalities really mean when they offer up such ambiguous answers to questions from the media. Continue reading
England's Left Side Answer
Charles N’Zogbia has set his sights on playing in the World Cup but for England. Would Fabio Capello consider taking a foreigner as part of the 23 man squad? Continue reading
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