Is it time to introduce a Winter Break?

With the busy festive and New Year period looming in the English football calendar, now is the appropriate time to reopen one of English football’s most persistent debates, which hasn’t really been covered in recent months. Is there a need for a Winter break? Continue reading

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Tartan torture

So once again Scotland fans will be sitting it out when the World Cup goes to Brazil in 2014. We didn’t fancy South Africa in 2010 – too hot, nor Germany in 2006 – too much like home, nor Korea and Japan in 2002 – too far away. We’d gone to France ’98 (well, it’s so close!) but Continue reading

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Has Euro 2012 enhanced international football’s declining reputation?

Think back to March, if you can, and try to remember how you felt upon hearing the news that Fifa were planning to scrap the unpopular February and August friendlies, which had so often blighted the progress made by the forever-luckless Continue reading

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