Great memories Alan, except for me diving into your knee! Many great names and players. I miss those days as I age. I was so fortunate to play with the likes of you, Bobby Moore, Mike England, Harry Redknapp, those you mention, and so many more! But I also will never forget how you personally [...]
Funny thing happened to me this week amidst my bout of being ‘out of the game’, and and the first sign was a name coming up on my mobile telephone and what a lovely surprise as Tommy Jenkins name flashed up. Tommy is a gem and one of those rough diamonds that they used to [...]
HODGSON ON TRIAL….HAVING ALREADY FAILED by Alan Hudson I take a break from my new book as do the players from both the MSL and Premier League, and once again I fear that the last road to Rio was a complete disaster this one could be a Chris Rea song, ‘The Road to [...]
CLASSIC DISGRACE After watching Everton join the rest of our Premier League Chumps by crashing out of the ‘Thursday Cup’ I waited for ‘Super Sunday’ to see what the difference was between the Spanish and English league. Okay, I already knew that Barcelona and Real Madrid haves the far superior individuals, although [...]
ROLLING BACK THE YEARS Players and coaches were asked to name their Greatest Ever XI. Here's what a few of the players said about me. Tommy Baldwin: "Between them I'd say Alan and Cookie set up at least 75 per cent of my goals for Chelsea. Huddy was a big, strong player, [...]
ALL SAINTS DAY It was incredible that within only a few days Southampton, who played superbly for Ronald Koeman, showed Chelsea how to behave when Matic was incredibly not sent off on a second deliberate foul. What was even more deliberate was that unlike the Chelsea players against PSG on Tuesday night did not [...]
Wrong side of ‘The Pond’ For those watching Chelsea’s Champions League exit last night let me tell you, ‘it was not something that happened over 90 or 120 minutes, it was something that has been happening since our team won the 1970 FA Cup. I’ll give you four reasons, Brian Mears, Ken [...]
It is now 7.35am., and I have been writing on and off since 9am., when bringing you my thoughts on the latest Sounders performance. I went for a lunchtime stroll (limp) and on my return logged into Wikipedia and found what you have just read and like some of you, for the very first time. [...]
I turned to Fox Sports to watch the opening match of the season, having just seen Orlando play New York City a few hours prior. Firstly, the Orlando match - with 63,000 supporters inside the Citrus Bowl - was a total joke with the two main “superstars” the Spanish World Cup and Champions League winner, [...]
Forecasting Major League Soccer seasons before the first ball has even been kicked is a fool’s errand. In a league with salary-cap-enforced parity and a steady churn of player turnover, clubs dramatically ebb and flow from year to year. See: D.C. United, which finished bottom of the Eastern Conference in 2013 and first a season [...]
