Recent content by dugilrath

Colombia '94. Pre tournament dark horses, insane brand of attacking football, asprilla, valderrama, rincon, ready to take on the world. Instead: catastrophe, scandal and murder.

I see where people are coming from on this, but a journalist's job is to find out what really going on - the things that people in positions of responsibility might rather you didn't know. I'm not a UTD fan, but I suspect I'm far from the only one wondering recently, 'What the hell's going on...

What would it say about Ten Hag's judgement if this was the case? He worked with him for a year, made him Captain, and then a month into the new season, he's phasing him out... hardly joined-up decision-making.

Never a red. I don't know how they keep getting it so wrong. The ref on the pitch has to have the balls to stick with his decision, but VAR has kind of manipulated the situation. Don't even want Liverpool to win, but it's just nonsensical at this point.

But I'm not trying to defend Sancho, I'm trying to understand Ten Hag's motivation for saying what he said in public. If he was hoping to motivate Sancho, it appears to have failed catastrophically. If he was hoping to deflect attention from his poor start to the season, focusing the fan's anger...

Say what you like about Sancho - and it's obvious that he's not some titan in terms of his mentality - it's not smart management from Ten Hag to alienate a right winger when in the space of two weeks you've already lost 2 players in that position. In fact it's appalling management. I honestly...

I'm no Southgate fanboi, and I get just as irate as any sane fan with the team selections and the favouritism at times - but you have to look at these things in the cold light of day. You mention the talent in the squad - that 2018 team was crap! The midfield in particular was horrific. Much...

If I was giving the half time team talk for Argentina, I'd tell them to focus on not being permanently offside.

This exact offence will now fail to be penalised in the Argentinian box and 100 times during the group stages. Stupid penalty. They'll have long stopped giving pens for this stuff by the knockout stages

The 'sloppy moments' that everyone is complaining about have to be seen in the context of the fact that England were 3 or 4 goals to the good when they occurred and had understandably taken their foot off the gas a bit. Concentration levels would have been higher at 1 or 2-0. 4-3-3 looks right...

It may seem like the World Cup is a PR disaster from the perspective of the UK and Northern Europe more generally, but in Eastern Europe and Southern Europe the reporting will be very different (even in France, check out what Macron has been saying). That's before you move to South America...