Did the Signing of Van der Vaart Make Sense?
Don’t say this to Harry’s face, but the “Wheeler and Dealer” springs yet another surprise, much to the delight of the Spurs faithful. On deadline day, despite Redknapp’s claims to the contrary, he ended up completing a magnificent piece of business. Or did he? Given the system often used by Redknapp and the plethora of [...]
Continue reading...2. September 2010
3 UP FRONT: Van der Vaart, Transfer Window Yawns and England Pressure
Don’t miss the new episode of 3 Up Front! Iain Spragg returns to join Adrian Clarke & Iain Macintosh for half an hour of devilish debate on all the hottest stories dominating football this week. Fact or Fiction – Should Capello get the axe if England fail to start their Euro 2012 with two victories? The X-agerrated Factor [...]
Continue reading...2. September 2010
England vs Bulgaria – A case for Theo Walcott
England vs Bulgaria Euro 2012 Qualifiers Wembley Stadium Friday, 3rd September 2010 20:00 (BST) Although not many people are too eager to go watch the match at Wembley but we can be sure that this game, along with many to come, will see Fabio Capello build a team that will be a strong contender at Euro 2012. Theo Walcott was [...]
Continue reading...2. September 2010
Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s Parting Shot Leaves A Bitter Aftertaste
There are a myriad of ways you could describe AC Milan’s much-travelled show-pony Zlatan Ibrahimovic (lolloping gobshite, work-shy flake, disruptive semi-megalomaniac, self-important tossweed) but ‘likeable’ or even ‘affable’ probably wouldn’t be the kind of characteristics that would be on the tip of your tongue if you were asked to outwardly assess his personality. His talent is [...]
Continue reading...3. September 2010
Football transfer rumours: Yuri Zhirkov to Spartak Moscow?
Today’s fluff didn’t start the fire Slowly, they come creeping back. The low flames flickering in the reflections of their bright eyes. Above the susurrating winds and the hushed chitter from the shadows, snatched phrases and tentative negotiating ploys are faintly audible: “Player-plus-cash deal” … “£120,000 a week” … “Six-month loan with a view to a [...]
Continue reading...2. September 2010
Capello the bride of Frankenstein
As Fabio Capello prepares to lead his England players into European Championship qualifying battle against Bulgaria, the focus in the English press is, of course, on the Three Lions. The basic crux of all of the articles spread around Friday’s newspapers is that Mr Capello is under pressure and that his side must produce a [...]
Continue reading...2. September 2010
Football transfer rumours: Alan Curbishley to Aston Villa?
Today’s piffle has been out of the loop for a while Slim pickings for The Mill today as we enter post-window asceticism, a time not so much of rumour-mongering as rumour-finagling, rumour-make-doing, rumour-filching and rumour-siphoning-after-dark-using-a-straw-from-poorly-guarded-military-facilities. The Sun has the news that Rafael van der Vaart may have believed in the past that Manchester United were a bigger [...]
Continue reading...1. September 2010
Football transfer rumours: The morning after the window closes | Paul Doyle
Today’s jive comes with bonus tumbleweed Ta-da! Actually scrap that, readers, for today the Mill arrives with no fanfare. Today, verily, the Mill arrives with nothing but a sigh and a sweeping brush. And maybe one of those handy mechanical claw things to save it from having to stoop. The gig is over, see. The [...]
Continue reading...1. September 2010
Excessive transfer waste in Premier League
So the dust is settling and the ink drying on another closed transfer window, and it’s time for football fans to keep their fingers crossed that players – especially those who are previously untested in the Premier League – live up to their billing and, more importantly, their price tag. While one may laud [...]
Continue reading...31. August 2010
Football transfer rumours: Emmanuel Adebayor to Tottenham?
Today’s tittle-tattle eats people like you for breakfast. And sometimes Special K The Mill has a Civil Partnership Ceremony to go to this afternoon. We’re not complaining – and all the happiness in the world etc and so forth to James and Ben – but scheduling it for August transfer deadline day 2010 (or, as the [...]
Continue reading...30. August 2010
Football transfer rumours: Everton’s Jack Rodwell to Manchester United? | John Ashdown
Today’s rumours haven’t got that bank holiday feeling As readers will no doubt be aware, the Mill specialises in the tidy and concise dispensation of tittle-tattle, shepherding our flock of gossip neatly into its pen with a hearty whistle and a bit of “Come by, come by” or “Inthepen, inthepen, come by, inthepen”. But with just [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2010
Football transfer rumours: Robbie Keane to Newcastle?
Today’s scuttlebutt did not have a glory, glory night One minute Tottenham’s Peter Crouch and Robbie Keane are revelling in drawing Internazionale in the Champions League to prove a point to Rafael Benítez who jettisoned them from Liverpool, the next Keane’s on his way to Newcastle United on a season-long loan to join up with his [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2010
Football transfer rumours: Charles N’Zogbia to Birmingham?
Today’s guff is kicking back The Sun reports the surprising news that reliable waddling packhorse Dirk Kuyt doesn’t really want to play for Liverpool any more and would like to be reunited with his goateed personal organ grinder Rafa Benítez at Internazionale. Kuyt’s agent Rob Jansen said: “The clubs continue to talk but Dirk has told [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2010
Football transfer rumours: Charles N’Zogbia to Birmingham
Today’s guff is kicking back The Sun reports the surprising news that reliable waddling packhorse Dirk Kuyt doesn’t really want to play for Liverpool any more and would like to be reunited with his goateed personal organ grinder Rafa Benítez at Internazionale. Kuyt’s agent Rob Jansen said: “The clubs continue to talk but Dirk has told [...]
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3. September 2010
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