Terry Venables

MARTIN SAMUEL: Don't be fooled by this perfect storm - video replays may not work

The Greeks had a word for it: panakeia, meaning cure all. Ever since Thierry Henry lent France a hand en route to South Africa, the cry for the introduction of video replays has ignored one very important factor: the Henry...

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The world at their feet

SIR Alex Ferguson reckons England have no chance of winning the World Cup - and, like the bookies, the United manager is backing Brazil. M.E.N. Sport's Neil Barker canvasses the opinions of seven football legends about who will...

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Tuesday Quizzical (Part 2).

These answers follow on from the previous answer. The answer starts with the letter that was the final letter from the previous answer - so for example if Answer 1 was Terry Venables, Answer 2 could be Steven Staunton. 1) Most...

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Refs must use TV replays

FATE OF A NATION ... ref Martin Hansson refuses to listen as the Irish complain about Henry's cheating I DON'T blame Thierry Henry for his grotesque handball against the Republic of Ireland. I don't blame the referee, either,...

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MARTIN SAMUEL: It's crazy to punish Diego and Sir Alex for loony tunes

There is a standard punishment meted out for disreputable behaviour in football these days: a slap on the wrist. It is what Diego Maradona received for abusing journalists after Argentina qualified for the World Cup,...

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MARTIN SAMUEL: It's crazy to punish Diego Maradona and Sir Alex Ferguson for loony tunes

There is a standard punishment meted out for disreputable behaviour in football these days: a slap on the wrist. It is what Diego Maradona received for abusing journalists after Argentina qualified for the World Cup,...

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Blanco lives his dream

RAUL Blanco thought his chances of being involved in a World Cup had long slipped past him. Despite a wonderful career as a club coach and a heavy involvement with the Socceroos as an assistant and in a caretaker head coach...

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Happy Birthday Paul Scholes!

Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team - that goes to show how highly I have always rated him. He would have been one of the first players I’d have bought, given the chance”...

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James Milner - The New Mr Ronseal?

I like El Tel! The ex England manager (Terry Venables if you are too young to know who El Tel is!) says that James Milner can make the 2010 World Cup and compares him to pocket dynamo Alan Ball. believes James Milner could be...

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'It's always been a crowning glory to be asked to coach your national team' | Paul Hayward

Roy Hodgson on managing levels of expectation at Fulham and his position as a potential successor to Fabio Capello Roy Hodgson has just finished the Philip Roth novella Indignation , the title of which might describe the...

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