Nurturing Talent I frequently come across debates about clubs and their youth products and what teams are worthy of taking pride in producing talent. I find this to be a fairly unique topic because the talent a club has ‘produced’ seems to be generally misinterpreted. When I found myself in a relative debate concerning youngsters […]
Dear Santa, I have been quite a good lad this year: I’ve been patient despite the fact that we have given away 11 points so far in the Premier League; I’ve looked for positives in troubled times, even when we conceded late, late goals in the most predictable way ever; I kept the faith when […]
A big game has passed and I have been left predictably underwhelmed by the outcome. The Liverpool game was very similar to the City game in September in the sense that we went a goal down first after an unconvincing start, after then managing to claw our way back into the game and gain a […]
Captain’s Log star-date 1 week to go. Chekhov put a Christmas tree up on the bridge today. It looked nice but it was blocking the viewscreen, so I had Scotty beam it into space. Chekhov’s been mumbling quietly in Russian and giving me evils. It’s making me uncomfortable… Big game on Sunday. Away to Liverpool is […]
Thierry Henry has retired, in case the news hasn’t been covered extensively enough. The news broke yesterday, courtesy of the King himself, and spread a tornado of statistics, numbers and figures which were created to prove us how great the man has been. As if anyone who has seen Thierry Henry playing needed statistics to […]
When I saw the team sheet today, I was actually a lot less concerned pre-match than I have been mostly this season. The team had very good balance to it and all the players put a good shift in, although that should be a given. As embarrassing as the antics at the Stoke railway station […]
Captain’s Log – Star date Christmas party time Would it be inappropriate to ask Uhura to jingle my bells? Now that the smoke has cleared from the Stoke and Galatasaray games we have a good opportunity to reflect on both results with level heads. One of the reasons I choose to write my blogs towards […]
Here we are, the treatment room is getting empty and players are slowly coming back. That’s quite a strange feeling, isn’t it? After months spent with horrific shortages within the squad, it seems we are finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Bar Abou Diaby, Jack Wilshere and Serge Gnabry […]
Captain’s Log star date nearly Christmas. Spock says he has no emotion, and that I should bother buying him anything, but he said the same thing last year and when I didn’t get him a gift the Vulcan pinched me in the balls. 3 wins in a row, but more importantly, 3 clean sheets. A lots has […]
Je ne suis pas d’accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je me battrai jusqu’à la mort pour que vous ayez le droit de le dire – Evelyn Beatrice Hall (also known as S.G. Tallentyre), The Friends of Voltaire I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to […]
