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The Secret Fan
25 May, 2012

Cometh the hour, cometh the £35m man?

I’m hoping that “the damned if you do, dumped if you don’t” attitude of the English media will work in Carroll’s favour and we get to see a bit of the cavalier English centre forward who set St James’ Park alight

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The Secret Fan
22 May, 2012

Chelsea: My hate affair

I refuse to have any sneaking admiration for them or their fans or their money. I think that they are the luckiest club to have won the competition

The Secret Fan
10 May, 2012

Conspiracy theories and Rovers

With the crazy “spend now, pay later” ethos of football clubs, we must eventually come to the fine tipping point of stay and fight or cash-in and flight

The Secret Fan
25 Apr, 2012

Boring Barca up the wrong tree

With the overconfidence of 11 verses ten, Barca have become so committed to laying siege to Petr Cech that they have forgotten to make any provision regarding defence

The Secret Fan
18 Apr, 2012

The Reward of Loyalty

With their last foray into the Premier division suffering the dreaded Second Season Syndrome, Reading have a chance to set the record straight.

The Secret Fan
11 Apr, 2012

No thriller at the Villa

Maybe I shouldn’t be too surprised as nothing much exciting has happened here since the days of Ron Atkinson and Graham Taylor and the start of the 2010 season when Martin O’Neill departed

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