This week we’ll see who’s invited to Colin and Q’s birthday parties before we find out who is going to win the London Derby between Arsenal and Spurs.  Colin’s slender lead in “Pick ‘em Peck ‘em” will be tested this weekend with some interesting fixtures on the calendar.  Will Saturday spell the end for Mark Hughes or Nigel Adkins? Plus! A...

Most people try to avoid it.  But, every year, a certain percentage of Premier League teams aim for the number forty.  The number forty almost certainly means one thing: safety. I am of course, referencing the end-of-the-season point tally that virtually ensures another bout of matches in the Premiership, and avoiding relegation.  In the past ten years, only once has a team been re...

King Henry spoke of war, and so too, will I. Thirty eight battles approach for each Premiership squad, an equal number being fought on familiar and unknown soil.  Approximately thirteen million spectators will observe the clashes from the confines of their plastic thrones.  Blood, sweat and tears will be shed for love, joy and despair; all on the grass of the battlefield and concrete of...

Earlier today, Roy Hodgson named the twenty-three-man England squad he will be taking to Euro 2012.  Here it is: Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Man City), Rob Green (West Ham), John Ruddy (Norwich) Defenders: Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Phil Jones (Man Utd), John Terry (Chelsea), Joleon Lescott (Man City), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Leighton Baines (Everton) Midfielders: Theo Walcott...

I suspect the following will start out as a proverbial fresh salad for your eyes and mind…slowly being drowned in Satan’s Blood hot sauce as you consume it.  I label it as such, not for the audacity of the below comments; but, for the laughable nature of what is to follow.  In writing this, I realize England will never engage in such “nonsensical poppycock”. ...