Tuesday 16 June 2009, 12:00
Money, money, money: must be funny in a rich man's world. If the philosophical utterings of Sweden’s most famous four are to be believed, Cristiano Ronaldo must be laughing his blooming head off ahead...
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Monday 01 June 2009, 14:00
When my client Alan Smith signed for Newcastle United just under two years ago, nobody mentioned relegation. We were sold a very different dream, and very convincingly too. We'd been promised Europe...
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Thursday 21 May 2009, 12:00
A lot of phrases are overused in football. Managers saying “I couldn’t actually see the penalty incident from where I was sitting,” for example, or players continually saying they’ll “take each game as...
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Thursday 14 May 2009, 10:00
There will be a few chairmen of Premier League clubs with sweaty palms this weekend. Don’t worry – I’m not going to turn this blog into the News of the Screws . I’m talking about the fight for survival...
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Wednesday 06 May 2009, 14:00
The final whistle has been blown, the nets put away and the bootroom cleared. The usually busy ground is pretty much empty now except for a skeleton staff – the full-timers who are going to run the club...
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Wednesday 29 April 2009, 09:00
I've never had a breakdown (or a breakthrough), and I've never had to shout "show me the money" down the telephone. I don't smoke big fat cigars either. So I'm no Jerry Maguire...
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