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Alan Green
Henry handball verdict leaves FIFA a laughing stock
What was the point? It took them two months to organise a meeting before the
FIFA Disciplinary Committee made their inevitable decision not to punish
Thierry Henry. Did we expect anything else?
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Inside Alan Green
Alan Green: Beware a wounded Fergie
Monday, 25 January 2010
Make no mistake: though his club are the ‘holders’ and, occasionally, he may
say something that suggests otherwise, Sir Alex Ferguson couldn’t care less
about the Carling Cup.
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Alan Green: Fab Arsenal no longer a soft touch
Monday, 25 January 2010
Sadly, progress in the FA Cup is becoming an increasing irrelevance.
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Alan Green: Liverpool lot are all as bad as each other
Monday, 18 January 2010
I wrote recently that Liverpool had plumbed new depths in their performance at
Portsmouth but, clearly, worse was to come. And supporters of the club,
peering into the abyss, realise they can't yet see the bottom. Liverpool are
in crisis, on and off the field.
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Alan Green: Manchester City flatter to deceive
Monday, 18 January 2010
Has the bubble burst for Roberto Mancini or were they wrong in inflating it in
the first place?
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Alan Green: Football never more important than matter of life and death
Monday, 18 January 2010
I pay attention to the Africa Cup of Nations for many reasons, not least
because I present a weekly programme on BBC World Service and 40% of the
listeners are in Africa.
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Alan Green: Hull hath no fury like mine
Monday, 11 January 2010
I felt like screaming abuse at the car radio.
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Alan Green: The time is right for Gary Neville to call it a day
Monday, 11 January 2010
Gary Neville was left out of the Manchester United starting XI at Birmingham
on Saturday night.
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Alan Green: Coyle switch from Burnley just baffling
Monday, 11 January 2010
Money will only partly heal the open wound that is the current relationship
between Bolton and Burnley, one wincing at opinion that Owen Coyle’s move is
“sideways”, the other grieving for their loss. Me? I just can’t work it out.
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Alan Green: Leeds to promised land
Monday, 4 January 2010
Leeds United are, according to Sir Alex Ferguson, a club that will re-enter
the promised land of the highest division within two years. Be careful what
you wish for Fergie.
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Alan Green: Portsmouth problems rising
Monday, 4 January 2010
There’s always somebody else worse off than you are. Even Bolton supporters
must see that the plight of Portsmouth is far greater than their own.
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Alan Green: Bolton fans in need of huge reality check
Monday, 4 January 2010
Imagine, if you will, that Liverpool hadn’t won their last two league matches
or had lost at Reading and the Anfield crowd was baying for the blood of the
manager.
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Alan Green: Money won’t buy Manchester City glory... or class
Monday, 21 December 2009
As soon as the Abu Dhabi owners moved into Manchester City I feared for Mark
Hughes.
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Alan Green: It’s Fab news for England
Monday, 21 December 2009
I’ll bet that, privately, Fabio Capello (right) was rubbing his hands in glee
on hearing the Champions’ League draw.
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Alan Green: Let stars come to the four for Liverpool
Monday, 21 December 2009
Liverpool’s season surely cannot get any worse. The defeat at Fratton Park, to
a very poor team, plumbed new depths.
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Alan Green: Just let Rob go, Sparky
Monday, 14 December 2009
Perhaps it’s the difficulty in conversing in a language that’s foreign to you
though, thinking about it, how often do we hear ‘English’ players who
plainly can’t speak English?
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Alan Green: Cap doesn’t fit for Owen
Monday, 14 December 2009
Those behind the clamour for Michael Owen to go to South Africa next summer
after his hat-trick against Wolfsburg can have little knowledge of the
thinking of Fabio Capello.
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Alan Green: Manchester United not immune from money worries
Monday, 14 December 2009
Given the depletion of their resources through injury and illness, it was
remarkable that Manchester United produced those stunning victories at West
Ham and Wolfsburg.
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Alan Green: Beckham's number’s up as England draw comfort
Monday, 7 December 2009
The Daily Mirror had his picture on both front and back pages: “Fab (sic)
relief as Beckham helps England to a dream draw.”
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Alan Green: Blatter just so out of touch
Monday, 7 December 2009
And they say a week is a long time in politics!
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Alan Green: Arsene his own enemy
Monday, 7 December 2009
On the occasions, too few, that I sit down in the same room as Arsene Wenger I
usually have reason to smile.
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