Barber shop punditry: better than real punditry

I just came back from my barber where the standard of punditry was excellent. Here’s the latest:
Chelsea ‘are rubbish.’
Liverpool will win the League. Crucially, they need a big dose of luck to get there but that is ‘what all teams need to win the title.’
Man United need Berbatov back in the line-up and doing ‘his Cantona [...]

Why it’s right to hate Cristiano Ronaldo.

Aston Villa 0 – 0 Manchester United
Villa Park, November 22nd, 2008
Let’s get all the obligatory stuff out of the way quickly so we can get down to elaborating on this article’s purposely inflammatory headline.
There was a lot talk around how Aston Villa would take it to Manchester United in this game. Villa have had [...]

Sport: the original Armistice

I was going to write about the Australian cricket team’s series defeat to India – their first series defeat since the infamous 2005 Ashes series. I was going to write about how maybe Australian cricket is just not that good anymore. I was going to write about the ridiculous notion (currently permeating through the Aussie [...]