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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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