Recent Reader Comments

• https://youtu.be/KcibLTfrq_Y?si=lM7tEjaVi81aGU51 Says it all as far as I'm concerned....
  Don Alexander in Why Jordan Pickford is the Premier League’s most overlooked world-class goalkeeper
• PG (6), 5 out of 7 ain’t bad (hopefully I’m not flattering myself too much).It is a very simplified summary of my ancestors of course. A Scottish great-grandmother and one of my grandads had Shropshire roots, which further muddies the waters. Can’t have been deep roots because he was a merchant seaman which doesn’t seem like a natural fit for a native of a landlocked county.Anyway the Italians have qualified which proves… nothing?How about another hypothesis for their poor performing national football team? They have (like the Irish) in recent history seen a burgeoning of Rugby Union which potentially attracts gifted athletes who may otherwise have played professional football. Italian athletes also seem more prevalent to me these days.My verdict: there are likely a myriad of causative factors that affect the performance of a national sports team and working out the particular significance of each one will take far more time than any of us are likely to be prepare...
  Si Cooper in The decline of Italian football
• Who was our last player to play for Wales? Surely not Gary Speed?...
  Paul Griffiths in Coleman, O’Brien and Mykolenko see World Cup dreams dashed
• Enjoy your stolen moment in the sun boys. You will not have that trophy soon, and that is exactly how it ought to be. Sort of strange to see you walk around the pitch rather than off it. Although I do wish that AFCON made the right decision, which for me would have been not to award the trophy at all, though I suppose that that would have been hard on Morrocco....
  Paul Griffiths in Senegal parade the Afcon trophy before Peru friendly
• Kevin Molloy (112): too fecking right I expect Moyes to compete with Arsenal and Man United. What an odd word to use: 'unfair'. Sounds sort of soppy and well the word of a loser. Also (129), the flesh-eater was not the best player in the world at that time. Not even close. And that shite team was there for the taking on that day.Ryan Holroyd (136): what a sad little needy individual you are....
  Paul Griffiths in Will TFG offer David Moyes a new deal in the summer?
• I'm not sure that I have written a bestseller Mike. Academic books do well to break the 1,000 ceiling, though I've always done that up to now. The only way that I could see this happening, I think, is if you were comfortable posting your email address and I could send you a couple of PDFs....
  Paul Griffiths in James Garner makes his England debut