Andrew Gillooley, Vancouver. March 24th 2013: As many of those that know me will no doubt be aware I love football, central to that is my love of Liverpool Football Club. Since moving to Vancouver in 2011 I have been a member of the official LFC Supporters Club in Vancouver. Recently I joined the executive…
Andrew Gillooley, Vancouver. March 4th 2013: The new MLS season got underway this weekend with Vancouver Whitecaps starting at home To Toronto FC in an all Canadian affair. Following a dour first half, new signing Nigel Reo-Coker was introduced by Whitecaps manager Martin Rennie, and he brought a huge improvement out of the home side.…
Gambetta Football’s David Rodriguez Glez was in attendance at the Capital One Cup Final on Sunday as a special guest of cup winner Michu. The former Real Oviedo man has been in great form throughout the competition and got onto the scoresheet in the final; even more impressively he’ll go down in history as being…
Andrew Gillooley, Vancouver. January 30th 2013: For all those football moments you might have missed in the past seven days here’s Gambetta Football’s Videos of the Week again. First we’re off to the Ukraine for their under 21 match against Russia. Vladislav Kalitvintsev’s howitzer (I love that word) gets us off to a great start……
Andrew Gillooley, Vancouver. January 22nd 2013: Are you ready for your weekly dose of football video goodness? This week we start off in Scotland where Dundee United’s Gary MacKay-Steven produces a sublime piece of skill before being fouled for his bit of showboating. No doubt the African Nations Cup will provide us with some highlights…
Andrew Gillooley, Vancouver. January 18th 2013: When Ian Holloway ranted at a journalist earlier this week he revisited a point that he had made two years earlier. By comparing the transfer window to restrictions being placed on when people are able to buy groceries, he showed his disdain for the transfer window and the effect…
George Dugdale, Oxford. January 15th 2013: There is a successful Twitter account which brilliantly collates the clichés in football. They are provided by managers, players, pundits and fans alike. From ‘come-and-get-me pleas’ to ‘hijacked’ moves, January is a month in which football provides plenty of material for the internet to chuckle about. It is when…
