Welcome to the regular Wednesday column from an old favourite; The Original Grumpy Old Man (OGOM). This week OGOM begs for the invention of commentary free live football.
There are not footballers playing in the English league that can cause me more annoyance simply by reference to their name than Robbie Savage. Wrexham’s finest scholar of [...]
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The Original Grumpy Old Man: out of the mouths of idiots.
February 24th, 2010The Original Grumpy Old Man: A proper World Cup bid.
February 17th, 2010Welcome to the regular Wednesday column from an old favourite; The Original Grumpy Old Man (OGOM). This week OGOM explains why the England 2018/22 World Cup bid is all wrong.
At some point in the next few months, just before the World Cup in South Africa kicks off, FIFA will decide the hosts of the 2018 [...]
The Original Grumpy Old Man: Pouring it down a unfillable drain.
February 10th, 2010Welcome to the regular Wednesday column from an old favourite; The Original Grumpy Old Man (OGOM). This week OGOM wonders when enough is enough.
So we now know, the car park attendant at Upton Park is on twice the national average wage, whilst Kieron Dyer earns £5m a year on the treatment table. When your £110m [...]
The Original Grumpy Old Man: Fiddling around the edges.
February 3rd, 2010Welcome to a new regular column from an old favourite. The Original Grumpy Old Man (OGOM). This week OGOM makes the best of a bad job otherwise known as the January transfer window.
So the stats are in, lowest PL spend ever on transfer window day, lowest spend over the month of January since the transfer [...]
The Original Grumpy Old Man: Where Palace lead dozens will follow.
January 27th, 2010Welcome to a new regular column from an old favourite. The Original Grumpy Old Man (OGOM). This week OGOM suggests Crystal Palace’s administration is but the first domino in a long line.
The news out of Selhurst Park yesterday can’t really be called a shock or even a surprise, when you have a date with HMRC [...]
