Taking the first ‘E’ out of Aliadiere

TAKING THE FIRST “E” OUT OF ALIADIERE
There’s an air of desperation in the, um, air, as middling players leave one middling club for another, revealing a middling gap at the initial middling club. One such example is the Human Pie-shaped gap left by Mark Fooduka at Middlingbrough.
But Gareth Southgate is nothing if not an utterly [...]

The Bottle of Becks

THE BOTTLE OF BECKS
Comedian Rob Newman ridiculed former England manager Graham Taylor in the early ninties by assuming his comical accent and uttering “we mustn’t underestimate the Estonians”.  In response to his own character assassination the funnyman countered that we must underestimate the Estonians: send out slx players, not even wearing the proper kit and [...]