Tag Archives: Real Madrid
FWA Q&A: TIM RICH
TIM RICH of The Independent on heroin and incest...interviewing the wrong Kanoute...and a fabulous lunch in the occupied territoriesHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
I once ran a campsite in France and once worked, very inefficiently, filling bottles of shampoo at a factory where all work stopped for 10 minutes to listen to Simon Bates’ Our Tune.
Tags: 2005 European Cup Final, AC Milan, Africa Cup of Nations, Allianz Arena, Andorra, Ashes, Bangkok, Brazil, Chelsea, Frank Keating, John Bercow, Kanoute, liverpool, Martin Blackburn, Neil Custis, Real Madrid, Rory Smith, sir bobby robson, St James' Park, Steven Gerrard, Sunderland Echo, The Independent, Zinedine Zidane
FWA Q&A: Neil Harman
NEIL HARMAN on chatting with Sir Matt...Contemplation Point...and wonderful Fox piesHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
If you count marking up the newspapers for delivery as a 14-year-old in Leigh-on-Sea and then doing shifts before and after school behind the counter in the same local newsagents, I suppose that's my only other profession. I left school at 16 and joining the Evening Echo, based in Basildon as a junior sports reporter and from there it has been journalism all the way.
Tags: Bangor City, Bill Fox, Bill McNeill, Billericay, Blackburn, Bobby Moore, David Walsh, Elland Road, Evening Echo, Leigh-on-Sea, liverpool, Mike Ingham, Neil Harman, Newcastle, Peter Jones, Real Madrid, Ron Atkinson, Sir Matt Busby, Stan Collymore, Steve Curry
FWA Q&A: IAN HAWKEY
IAN HAWKEY on covering Ba#celona...the singing nuns of Ougadougou...and don’t mention the WaughHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
Some temporary shop jobs with unsightly uniforms and a stint as a painter-and-decorator, but otherwise worked only as a journalist, in various capacities, but mainly sports reporting.
Tags: AC Milan, barcelona, cricket, Fulham, Juventus, lionel messi, Malcolm Macdonald, Manchester United, Mark Waugh, Real Madrid, Rome, Roy Hodgson, Saint Etienne, San Mames, Sardines, Zidane
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
FWA Q&A: BOB CASS
The Mail on Sunday’s BOB CASS on missing bums at Darlington...oh dear Cantona... and an Eye-talian lady thinking he was Charles BronsonHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
Apart from two years serving Queen and country doing National Service in the Royal Army Service Corps, where incidentally I played in the same football team as Ron Yeats, Chris Crowe and Alec Young (the Golden Vision) – No.
Tags: Brian Clough, Darlington, Eric Cantona, John Motson, Kevin Keegan, Puskas, Real Madrid, Sunderland, Tokyo, Twitter, Ukraine
I would have loved to referee El Clásico – Graham Poll
By CHRISTOPHER DAVIESNothing, we are told, can ever be guaranteed in football but it can be said with absolute confidence that the next el clásico matchup of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona and Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid on Saturday will see the good, the bad and the ugly of what Pele called the beautiful game. Boring it will not be. Maybe, just maybe it will be 0-0 but football writers covering the game will not be struggling to fill their allocated wordage or searching for an angle, not with a game involving most of the 10 best players in the world ...
Tags: barcelona, Graham Poll, Jose Mourinho, pep guardiola, Real Madrid
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