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Thu, May 17, 2012

Inside Write

Inside Write

A miracle in the nick of time

Posted on 15 May 2012 - 04:38am

Bob Holmes

IT DOES NOT GET better than this. Football, sport, drama… indeed even our fantasies would be hard-pressed to come up with anything as spellbinding or far-fetched as the climax of the 20th Premier League season.

Footy feast is here to stay

Posted on 11 May 2012 - 04:33am

Bob Holmes

Only 90 minutes left but major issues still unresolved.

City joy is sad news for the rest

Posted on 8 May 2012 - 04:32am

Bob Holmes

Watching the anxious faces of City fans at Newcastle – even after they'd scored – you felt like saying: 'Relax – if you don't win it this year, there's next year and the one after that.' But what seems an inevitable era of dominance to the rest of us is still hard to believe for those who feel cock-ups are in the club's DNA.

If anyone could blow the title against QPR next week, i

Blame Glazers for Fergie’s nightmare

Posted on 4 May 2012 - 04:34am

Bob Holmes

So this is supposed to be Fergie's worst nightmare – losing the title on goal difference to City, of all people.

Wrong man for mission impossible

Posted on 1 May 2012 - 04:35am

Bob Holmes

Trust the English FA to make a sow's ear out of a silk purse. Well, that rough diamond 'Arry Redknapp is not normally associated with anything as smooth as silk, but his assumed accession to the role of England manager did seem to be unusually unruffled.

Time to fine-tune the tiki-taka

Posted on 26 April 2012 - 06:08pm
Last updated on 26 April 2012 - 09:53pm

Bob Holmes

IT IS THE TIME of the season when empires crumble, dreams are dashed and scripts that seemed etched in the stars end up in the shredder.

When neutrals bite their nails

Posted on 24 April 2012 - 04:35am

Bob Holmes

How to make sense of all that? A weekend of football drama and subplots that Hollywood would hesitate to script: we have seen the goal-shy Toffees score four at Old Trafford, hapless Woy beat Liverpool in front of the Kop, Chelsea reserves hold Arsenal and, over in Spain, the best player on the planet look like a little boy lost. Make sense?

No more Messi-ng around

Posted on 20 April 2012 - 04:37am

Bob Holmes

If they are not mesmerised by the intricacies of the passing, all the kitchen sinks in Catalonia will be thrown at them.

Played by cheats, run by idiots

Posted on 17 April 2012 - 04:38am

Bob Holmes

IT SAYS IT ALL about a sickening weekend for football and society that the best decision referee Martin Atkinson's made was to cut short Wembley's minute's silence. Already ruined by Chelsea lowlifes, he at least spared us a few more seconds of toe-curling embarrassment.

Squeaky bum time

Posted on 13 April 2012 - 04:34am

Bob Holmes

EXPERIENCED FERGIE WATCHERS could have told us things were going badly wrong. The chewing gum was taking a ferocious beating, the dugout seat barely used, the technical area menacingly prowled. Hairdryer?