Recent content by pumblechook

Hi guys. I expect you have had a few articles in the past few days covering the 20th anniversary of Norwich's win in the Olympic Stadium against Bayern Munich. Anyway, I have written one of my own for the State of the Game website. The link to which is here...

Away from England's big match tonight and the other home nations' struggles, one of the big stories in the qualification section has been in the CONCACAF group where Mexico inexplicably find themselves lying 5th with 2 matches to go, the first of which is against Panama in the small hours...

Hi guys. Well done on your win against Stoke today. It was a very good goal by Darren Bent to win the game showing what he is capable of and although maybe Fulham's overall performance was not great, sometimes it is those sort of scratchy wins that can kickstart teams that have been...

I still think he will be at Liverpool at the end of August. Liverpool don't want to be in the position they were in before when Torres left where he was sold on the last day before the closure of the transfer window, resulting in them forced into making a panic buy for a striker, which was an...

Hi guys. Just dropping by to say that an article I wrote about Wolves has been published on the State of the Game website this morning. The link to it is here -...

Hi guys. I have written a prediction piece for State of the Game website with a short synopsis of where I think teams will finish in the Championship this coming season. The link is as follows...

David De Gea - 8 Anders Lindegaard - 5 Rafael - 8 Patrice Evra - 7 Phil Jones - 6 Rio Ferdinand - 9 Jonny Evans - 6 Chris Smalling - 5 Nemanja Vidic - 7 Alexander Buttner - 6 Antonio Valencia - 4 Anderson - 5 Ryan Giggs - 7 Michael Carrick - 9 Nani - 4 Ashley Young - 5 Paul Scholes...

Man City, Newcastle, Stoke and QPR.

He has been past it for years. He gave up speaking in coherent sentences long ago, instead just reeling off a series of adjectives to describe players and hoping that it sufficed. Add that to his obvious bias and his knack of interrupting other pundits and I'd say his departure will be welcome...

De Gea's improvement in the second half of the season and his growing in stature was one of the main reasons for United's defensive record vastly improving from January onwards. Outside of the top clubs and the names mentioned so far, Simon Mignolet has had a pretty impressive season. He has...

Ferguson's presence could potentially be both a blessing and a curse. A blessing to Moyes as a sounding board. But a curse because every time United lose or are losing, TV cameras will pick him out in the crowd and people will say 'what would Fergie have done?'. Liverpool had a similar scenario...

Well, when I am not sharing my thoughts on football on the Not606 forums, I sometimes contribute articles for the football website 'State of the Game'. And my latest article is about Sir Alex Ferguson and his contribution to Manchester United for the last quarter of a century. The link to the...

Rodgers inherited a mess from Liverpool's previous Messiahs, messrs Dalglish and Benitez. Liverpool spent over £100 million in Dalglish's time and in the main have had a paltry return on that investment. Liverpool's problems can be traced back to the moment Benitez upset Xabi Alonso by pursuing...

Before Moyes took over, Everton were regularly finishing in the bottom 6 of the Premier League and were in danger of getting relegated. In his 11 years, he has stabilised the club by gradually bringing in better players and enabling the team to play more in the way that he likes his teams to...

Jose Mourinho won the UEFA Cup and Champions League in consecutive years with Porto back in 2003 and 2004. The only difference was he managed to achieve the feat 'the right way round' and I guess also the scheduling of the finals meant that by the time Porto won the Champions League in 2004...