By Myles Palmer Patrick Vieira was gutted after Valencia and Cardiff. He thought Arsenal should have beaten Valencia and beaten Liverpool. He accepted losing the league, but he thought Arsenal should have won the FA Cup and the European Champions…
By Myles Palmer Patrick Vieira was gutted after Valencia and Cardiff. He thought Arsenal should have beaten Valencia and beaten Liverpool. He accepted losing the league, but he thought Arsenal should have won the FA Cup and the…
By Myles Palmer Greece 0 England 2 A year ago the England players were managed by Wenger,Houllier and Ferguson, so they knew that Keegan was bluffing. That he was unqualified to manage England. That is why Euro 2000 was always…
By Myles Palmer Disgusting gamesmanship by Greece last night as they deservedly beat England 3-1.Dim team selection by Howard Wilkinson meant a poor first half performance by Carrick, Defoe et al.But the cheating by the Greeks was just horrible.I could…
By Myles Palmer Machlas versus Keown? Machlas versus Seaman? I wonder because I’ve always fancied Nikos Machlas as a Tony Cottee-type poacher. He is short, tidy, skilful and prolific, the type Thierry Henry calls a fox in the box. When…
By Myles Palmer I love May because it tidies up the season. Cups are handed out, league tables finalised. And in June, after due deliberation, definitive judgements can be made about 2000/2001. Second in the Premiership? Second in the FA…
By Myles Palmer England 4 Mexico 0 Did Owen/Fowler/Heskey work well? No, because Heskey played badly and conceded a dumb penalty, tripping Osorno. But Abundis knocked the penalty past the post. After three minutes Scholes scored a typical Scholes goal…
By Myles Palmer That’s my guess for tomorrow’s 1pm press conference at White Hart Lane. Arsene has always fancied Sol Campbell, who was offered £80,000 a week to stay at Spurs. But it’s about ambition. Sol wants to play in…
By Myles Palmer Sven-Goran Eriksson strikes me as a great reductionist. He looks at his problem long enough to understand it and then comes up with simple solutions. He decided three matches ago to rely on Seaman’s experience and the…
By Myles Palmer __________________________ Bayern Munich 1 Valencia 1 Bayern win 5-4 after sudden death penalties ___________________________________________ Real Madrid versus Arsenal would have been a far better game! This was the dullest European Cup Final since Forest-Malmo in 1979 –…