Cornish footballers have been notably thin on the ground over the course of the history of the game with Nigel Martyn, Matthew Etherington and Exeter City legend Tony Kellow the most famous of a very rare bunch indeed. Oddly, the case is different across the Channel, where Cornwall’s close cultural brethren in Brittany have produced more than a few well known stars. Amongst these, one finds ex-Rangers boss Paul Le Guen, current Champions League starlet and the latest to be afforded the label, “the new Zidane”, Yoann Gourcuff, ex-Nantes star Yvon le Roux, French league title winner Patrick Colleter and…
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Pillaging the lower reaches
Yesterday’s entertaining share of Midlands spoils at the Walkers will have been seen only by an anti-Murdoch few, pitted as it was against the Manchester Ship Canal derby. That’s a pity. Leicester and Coventry served up a textbook example of what’s good about this league. The Foxes purred in the first period, adroit passing in and around the penalty box handing them a 2-0 lead in no way devalued by a goal that should not have stood; after some tea cup jettisoning from Chris Coleman, Coventry drew on a wellspring of enterprise to get back into the game and general…
Championship Letters 5: Neil Warnock as the Cyclops
Rafa Benitez’s unlikely recent defence of the one eyed tendency among managers has only served to remind us of the prevailing habit among Premier League bosses to see things only from their own point of view. The humble Championship, by contrast, is mercifully bereft of this selfism. Fans of the cult of the individual are nonetheless still well served by the presence in the managerial phalanx of one Neil Warnock. The ex-Gainsborough Trinity boss sees Crystal Palace’s current problems from a perspective that would do justice to that legend of Greek mythology, the primordial race of giants, the Cyclops. Neil…
Hey Mr Talisman
Every club in the division possesses a talisman. Charlie Adam’s left peg is a huge influence at Blackpool, Scunthorpe will probably stay up after keeping hold of Gary Hooper in the transfer window, and who knows where Watford would be this season without the youthful zest of Tom Cleverley. Each of these players are capable of hurting teams, and their absence on any given match-day will galvanize opposition support. How, then, supporters of the 14 teams that are due to play Leicester during a match-packed next eight weeks will have contented themselves with the news that Matty Fryatt has been…
Championship Letters 3: Nolberto Solano as Paddington
Not too many can attract applause from all four corners of a ground, but Nolberto Solano’s unlikely new start at Leicester on Saturday provoked a thunderous show of love from Newcastle and Foxes’ fans alike. In this, he resembles more than ever his fellow Peruvian national, Paddington Bear. Diminutive in stature and the kind of person football fans just want to hug, I’m sure he has had many a Jury’s Inn marmalade breakfast forced upon him, no doubt with the result of a very hard stare on each occasion. Both “men” have also seen their image appear on postage stamps…
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