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Alan Green: Referees have to earn respect

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:44 GMT

The FA is trying to get its 'Respect' campaign back on track by arranging a meeting with the League Managers Association.

Alan Green: Wenger’s got it all wrong

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:00:42 GMT

Perhaps I'm being unduly pessimistic on their behalf but I think if Arsenal are beaten by Manchester United at lunchtime today their title chance has gone.

Alan Green: Rome should gear up for an English invasion

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:00:04 GMT

Halfway through the group phase and, already, the question is: who will stop an English club winning the Champions League again this season?

Alan Green: England are Fab, now

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:07:54 GMT

What a difference a couple of months makes. In August, England looked a dishevelled mess against the Czech Republic. Yet, within four games, four wins, Fabio Capello's team has produced the country's best ever start to a World Cup qualifying campaign.

Alan Green: Platini’s plans are dangerous

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:00:57 GMT

Following on from their win away to Roma in the Stadio Olympico, that was another wonderful result for Romanian champions Cluj against Chelsea.

Alan Green: Get Camolli out and Ramos will deliver at Tottenham

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:00:50 GMT

As you know, I think the top four last season will be the same top four next May, even if the finishing order changes.

Alan Green: You’ll get sweet FA

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:00:02 GMT

Call me paranoid if you wish but I'm increasingly certain that one or two people at the Football Association are rather 'paranoid' about me.

Alan Green: Wenger’s job is to win trophies, not save money!

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:00:31 GMT

Looks like Arsene Wenger is sticking to his principles.

Alan Green: Hughes sorry now that he’s gone to Eastlands

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:34:50 GMT

I do my first commentary of the new season tomorrow at Eastlands: Manchester City against West Ham.

Alan Green: Ronaldo’s talk is cheap and fans wont be fooled

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:34:07 GMT

The summer has been dominated by the on-off transfer sagas of Gareth Barry and Cristiano RonaldoI hadn't even left for the European Championship yet it seemed a nailed on certainty that Gareth Barry would be signing for Liverpool and Cristiano Ronaldo would be off to Madrid.

Alan Green: England's over-paid, over-rated footballers needed to show why their sport hogs headlines

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:30:24 GMT

A couple of month's back, before I went on holiday, the office rang. "You know, Alan, England are playing the Czech Republic in August? It's theday after you return from Beijing." "Yes." "I don't suppose you'd want to do the game?" "Err…no."

Alan Green: England 2018 won’t cope with the trials of train travel

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:33 GMT

While the wheels are clearing in motion in trying to bring the 2018 World Cup to England, the last few weeks have reminded me of one glaring inadequacy facing the proposed organisers: transportation.

Alan Green: McClaren would have been a major Euro flop

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:08 GMT

One question keeps spinning in my mind out here: how would England have done? Well, my answer is 'not very well'.

Alan Green: It’s time for Spain to reign

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:05 GMT

Although I'm generally delighted that Spain are in Sunday's final, I must admit it's also an occasion for much personal relief.

Alan Green: Ronaldo is behaving like a petulant child

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:00:49 GMT

You may not agree but I have become completely and utterly bored by Cristiano Ronaldo. His self-obsession is tiresome and reached its nadir the other night after Portugal's defeat by Germany.

Alan Green: my first experience of the Hoop Holland brigade

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:00:49 GMT

It seems a lifetime ago now but I vividly remember taking a flight between Sardinia and Sicily during the 1990 World Cup in Italy