By Myles Palmer Dennis Bergkamp looked awesome scoring two slick goals in the 88th and 90th minutes at Middlesbrough on Saturday.But will he start instead of Wiltord?Dennis has said he just felt fit from the first day of pre-season. And,according…
By Myles Palmer I switched off Des Lynham at 7.26 pm on Saturday night. I would have liked to see Michael Owen’s two goals in the second match but The Premiership gave me a headache. It was the worst football…
By Myles Palmer I switched off Des Lynham at 7.26 pm on Saturday night.I would have liked to see Michael Owen/s two goals in the second match but The Premiership gave me a headache. It was the worst football highlights…
By Myles Palmer August is a great time to play Middlesbrough away.It’s not freezing cold, not grey and gloomy, not bucketing with rain. And since new boss Steve McClaren has been with England all week it’s even better than it…
By Myles Palmer I wonder who England will get in the play-offs? Swedish smoothie Sven-Goran Eriksson proved last night that his team selections can be just as dim-witted as Graham Taylor’s or Kevin Keegan’s. You DON’T play Owen Hargreaves on…
By Myles Palmer Glenn Hoddle won six in a row back in 1997, before and during Le Tournoi. Sven-Goran Eriksson’s rejuvenated side should equal that sequence by beating Holland at White Hart Lane tonight. They have only beaten Finland, Albania…
By Myles Palmer England 4 Holland 0____________________Darius Vassell scored an early goal and it was 1-0 at half-time.Unfortunately for Jeffers, Vassell proved to be an abysmal partner for him. After 35 minutes Jeffers made a nice run down the right…
By Myles Palmer England’s new Under-21 boss David Platt is on the same wavelength as Arsene Wenger, so he knows that Wenger is very, very keen to start the season with a win at Middlesbrough on Saturday. So they will…
By Myles Palmer Liverpool 2 Manchester United 1 _______________________________ Ruud van Nistelrooy was the classiest player on the Cardiff pitch, even though he stuttered all through the game. He will be tremendous, and soon. However, yesterday’s Charity Shield proved that…
By Myles Palmer Spurs 3 Fiorentina 0 ______________________ Without Batistuta, Toldo and Rui Costa, all sold in the past year,Fiorentina are nothing special, but Spurs looked pretty good last night when 35,000 turned out for Bill Nicholson’s testimonial Predictably, the…