Tag Archives: Messi
FWA Q&A: MIGUEL DELANEY
MIGUEL DELANEY on super Spain...awesome Ajax...and magnificent McIlvaneyHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
Sort of, but not really. I was lucky enough to go straight out of university into a job on the sports desk of the now sadly-defunct Irish paper, the Sunday Tribune. And, although they tried to inflict other sports on me that I never had any real interest in, I was always leaning towards football!
Tags: Ajax, Barry Davies, Champions League Final, Chelsea, Ireland, Kiev, Martin Tyler, Messi, Netherlands, Roberto Martinez, Spain, Sunday Tribune, The Bernabeu, Tim Cahill, world cup, World Cup Final
A WORKAHOLIC BESET BY A SENSE OF NEVER BEING QUITE GOOD ENOUGH
Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona were the greatest team many have ever seen, but Guillem Balagué reveals in his new book the former Barca coach is a workaholic beset by a sense of never being quite good enough.By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
THE SPECULATION will intensify as the season progresses, there will be exclusives about his next destination with “sources” confirming it will be Chelsea, Manchester City, Inter Milan or whoever, but right now even Pep Guardiola does not know where he will be working next season.
Tags: barcelona, Catalan, Cruyff, Expectations, Frank Rijkaard, Guillem Balague, Manchester United, Messi, Nou Camp, pep guardiola, Real Madrid, Spain
WHEN THIERRY BECAME HENRY
PHILIPPE AUCLAIR thinks Thierry Henry has a right to be considered France’s greatest footballer but in a ‘love letter’ he explains the character of the player changed...By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
IT IS sad that a player who gave Arsenal, English and French football such joy, so many moments of incredible skill, scoring breathtaking goals after a 60-yard lung-bursting run should be remembered as much for a handball (pedants will argue two handballs) as the pleasure he served up.
Tags: Arsenal, barcelona, Cantona, France, Messi, philippe auclair, robert pires, Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, world cup, Zidane
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