Blues vs. Reds

The first Merseyside derby of this season promised to be the most unpredictable for quite a while. Both Everton and Liverpool went into the match in good form…the home side enjoying success under new manager Roberto Martinez, and the visitors, with their new strike partnerships of Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge, scoring plenty of goals. Recent clashes between…

Baaaale!

A trip to Cardiff for Wales’ international friendly match against Finland recently hardly got the juices flowing. It wasn’t just me either, as the sparse crowd of just over 11,000 suggested. The thing is, this turned out to be higher than it may otherwise have been, thanks to the presence of the world’s most expensive…

Hugo’s Headache

I spent the last week darting back and forth between Manchester and Liverpool as European football once again became part of the agenda. My A530-A556-M56 route to the latter was as it usually is…busy, of course, but also on these occasions infested with a higher-than-normal Audi count. Even if you were completely unaware that City or United…