The Monday Profile
The Monday Profile: James Collins
The Monday Profile: Kenny Miller
The Monday Profile: Taiwo Atieno
One of the curiosities of African football has been the relatively undistinguished performance of national teams from the east side of the continent. Ethiopia and Sudan may have won continental titles in 1962 and 1970 but that was before the era when most countries participated, and the cultural and ethnic make up of those states is quite different from the the cluster of countries that tends to be referred to
…The Monday Profile: Zander Diamond
Scouring Scotland for players has its hazards of course. Remember Craig Levein’s unhappy spell at Leicester and Tommy Burns’ at Reading? James McFadden, Barry Ferguson and others were quasi megastars in the goldfish bowl, only to act the part of “any other player” down south - sometimes even less than that, as was the case with Kris Boyd and the majority of his Middlesbrough cohorts after the implosion of Gordon …
The Monday Profile: Kevin Nolan
Throughout a decade of parks football, the singular most irritating action I saw repeated time and again was the re-emergence of a dominant opponent at one’s own club’s lower level, having seemingly bidden goodbye to him the season before when his club won the league.
Being “a winner” is a state often eulogised in our game, but is it fair to eschew Billy Ocean tendencies and give up the “Going”
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