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The Former Wycombe Wanderers captain and QPR coach talks football
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Rhino on: Antonio Valencia and long term injuries
Being injured as a football player is a very lonely place for anyone and all things considered, it’s probably one of the worst times you can imagine as a sportsman. If you can get through the tough times it shows real character but it can sometimes be very difficult. With my first injury, a really serious knee injury, there were no definites that I’d ever get back to playing again. I never gave up but it’s hard because you lose touch with the players a bit and the whole camaraderie of being in the first team is lost. I owe the Wycombe physio at the time Dave Jones an awful lot because he was way ahead of his time with treatment and really spurred me on. Of course, there are always other players injured at the same time and you try and give each other strength and encouragement too. Be it a on a 9 mile bike ride or whatever, you stay together and help lift each other.
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Everton manager David Moyes refused to accept he was using distraction methods to cover up his side’s embarrassing loss to League One Brentford claiming ‘Oh my God! Zombies! The end is nigh. Run for your life!’ The Goodison Park side were dumped out of the DoWeHaveto? Cup last night but Moyes was more concerned with a Brentford fan throwing a bottle at a section of away supporters.
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The Football Association is contemplating a move to completely ban match fixing in English football as part of new ‘fair play’ initiative. Currently players are allowed to match fix providing they’re either not involved personally in the match or they’re considered not very good, and governing bodies appreciate they need to earn some extra income from gambling. But a meeting this month could see a blanket ban on match fixing which PFA Chief Executive Gordon Taylor believes is like ‘taking a sledgehammer to a nut.’
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The DA continues the Footballing Cities United Tour in Southampton
It must have been like a ’stop the presses!’ moment at National Rail HQ on Saturday when a plucky young jobsworth ran into the control room with a note. The man behind the microphone, set to announce for the 100th time that day that signal failures had disrupted the network, stopped in his tracks and let out a smile. ‘Ladies and Gentleman, this train is delayed, and it’s the f***ing Pope’s fault.’
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Furious campaigners around Britain are calling for the television broadcaster Sky to be taken off air this morning after they appeared to show a full 90 minute clip of a group of London thugs relentlessly beating an underdog. The video footage showed the underdog being surrounded by a 40,000 capacity stadium and forced to play an embarrassingly one sided game of football leaving viewers asking why no camera man did the decent thing and step in.
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The DA rounds up the weekend’s action by checking up on some the star’s Facebook statuses:
Continue reading » Sam Allardyce needs to stop playing Football Manager before going to REAL press conferences.
I’m Becky Taylor, I own 432 pairs of shoes, I’ve watched the Sex and the City box set 27 times, and I think they should turn Come Dine With Me into a film. I’m determined to disprove a stereotype so here are my knowledgeable Premier cup predictions for this weekend (I’m the living the dream SJP!)
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Pope Benedict XVI will be giving Sky Sports up-to-date reports on the Aston Villa v Bolton matchup this weekend, as part of his continued tour of England. The head of the Catholic Church said he was mostly looking forward to meeting the Holy Father Jeff Stelling and repenting Chris Kamara of his punditry sins. He will sit beside regular panel guests Tony Cottee and Paul Merson and says he’ll be ‘closely monitoring’ Merson’s holy water intake.
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The DA’s Richard Cutcher brings you some of the funniest football video clips doing the rounds this week:
Last week The DA treated you to the delights of foreign temperament when we brought you ‘Arry’s latest sulking sub. We all know Zlatan Ibrahimovic has a reputation for being a lazy so-and-so, but it seems now even his grudges are devoid of passion…
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ITV have received almost a quarter of a million complaints from angry wives who claim that their husbands reached for a cushion about 10 minutes into the Arsenal v Braga clash last night. The Gunners won the match 6-0 despite playing for over 60 minutes without anyone actually seeing a ball and embarrassed men are claiming the cushion was merely to rest their beer on.
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