Outside the Box – Football on TV: A hair-raising spectacle on Saturday turns to sombre reflection on Sunday

Take a look around you. Chances are that if you are reading this in a public place; a library, at your office while you should be working or perhaps even on the Tube, then someone close by is displaying some facial hair that seems to be a little out of place. These moustachioed menfolk are either un...

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Team of the Week and Weekend Wonders: Week 13

In a weekend full of exciting Premier League action, we all recieved the worst of reminders that there are more important things in life than football. The tragic loss of Gary Speed on Sunday morning has brought the footballing world together in mourning for the Welshman. The actual football seems t...

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Farewell Gary Speed...But Certainly Not Goodbye

What were you doing on Sunday morning? I was anticipating a great game of football in Swansea taking on an Aston Villa side who have looked particularly woeful in the last few weeks under Big man McLeish. Football. Roll it around your mouth – football. How pathetic does it seem now that we k...

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Can any player, including Messi, be considered 'the greatest'?

Ah, the Champions League. Bringer of drama, stopper of dreamers, platform for Ray Wilkins to say ‘my word’ 50 hundred thousand times. And there are other things that are nearly always discussed, certainly when seeing the two dominant Spanish sides play. The great debate has moved from trying to ...

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Top 10 bizarre injuries to footballers

Swansea City’s vice-captain Alan Tate is set to miss most of the Swans’ debut season in Premier League after breaking his leg in a freak golfing accident. The versatile defender was a passenger in a golf buggy that lost control and Tate will have to watch the majority of the club’s rollercoaster adv...

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Who's Going To Be At Euro 2012?

The qualifying groups for Euro 2012 are reaching the business end and its becoming a little clearer which players will be in Poland and Ukraine and which ones will be spending extra time on the beach. Places Booked As usual Germany have headed the way in qualification. Aside from a sticky period a...

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Squarefootball's Fantasy football invitation

There is less than two weeks to go until the start of the 2011/12 Premier League season and time is running out for you to enter the Squarefootball fantasy football competition. Last season more than 100 teams competed for the Squarefootball title, which was won by P Oxenby and his team FC Poxo. He...

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What five things would you do before the season starts?

Isn’t it normally New Years Eve when you get a top 100 favourite moments of the year or top 500 best movie credits or some other poor excuse for a programme? Well I thought I would also use it as a poor excuse for an article, but rather than boring you all with a list consisting of 100 or more items...

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Football in 3D - A new risk to average attendances?

The world has evolved and developed a lot since the 1950s with the invention, evolution and development of everything from bladeless fans to electric cars and high definition broadcasts and beyond, but what have the boffins responsible for 3D been doing for 60 years since its inception? 3D today i...

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Would you like to write for Squarefootball?

Do you live, breathe and sleep football? Do you have a passion for writing and want your views to be read by a potential audience of millions? Then we at Squarefootball Towers would love to hear from you. Whether you follow Aberdeen or Accrington Stanley, West Ham United or Wolfsburg, we can offer ...

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Wales: Who will replace Toshack in the Welsh dugout?

The Welsh public were full of hope and optimism ahead of their opening Euro 2012 qualifying match with Montenegro. With the likes of Craig Bellamy, Gareth Bale and James Collins in their squad, Wales were expected to breeze past the former Yugoslav republic. Unfortunately it was the same old story f...

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Squarefootball fantasy football invitation 2010/11

I saw more action and excitement this summer down at the mortuary than I did at the World Cup in South Africa. There was also a better atmosphere between me and my ex-girlfriend than there was inside the grounds, thanks to the constant drone of those awful vuvuzelas. And as for entertainment, I th...

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Beckham bows, Bale wows

OK, so the nation’s red-top readers might not be unified in touching an x-ray of his broken Achilles tendon this summer, but David Beckham’s injury and subsequent absence from this year’s World Cup rightfully dominated Mondays papers. Sure, his prospective absence isn’t anywhere near as pressing...

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Saturday Yankee - Home internationals

The five British and Irish international teams are all in action today; with England playing Slovakia in a friendly but Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Wales and Scotland all in competitive action trying to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. Lets see Group 4 - Wales vs Finland (3pm) With Germ...

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Why avoid the easy answer to Team GB at the 2012 Olympics?

There are reports that FIFA is to allow a British team to compete at the Olympics without affecting the beaurocratic meetings that the home nations consider so important to belong to. This of course being the real reason that the Scottish FA so vociferously object to an Olympic team. Part of the a...

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Players we love to hate: Robbie Savage

Before Cristiano Ronaldo arrived on the scene, Robbie Savage was undoubtedly the most universally hated player in the Premiership. He made Roy Keane and Wayne Rooney look like choirboys with his constant moaning to referees, he wound up everyone with his gamesmanship and in-your-face style of play, ...

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Squarefootball Diary; Easy For England; Cheeky Ched Wows Welsh; Baggies Get Moore

Squarefootball Diary - Wednesday May 28 2008 With many of Europe’s top footballing nations preparing for the start of Euro 2008 next weekend England warm up for their summer holidays with a 2-0 friendly victory over the USA at Wembley. John Terry’s 38th minute headed opener hardly makes up for his...

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1629: Wales: New era begins for Tosh

by : Alex Wolstenholme John Toshack ends the long wait for his first game as Wales boss next Wednesday with a friendly against Hungary and the make up of his first squad reveals some of the problems that the new manager will face. Two of Wales’s big-name players of course have been involved in tra...

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1443: Home Nations Review 2004: A ba

by : Alex Wolstenholme After the anti-climax that was Wales’s performance in the Euro 2004 play-off against Russia and the doomed bid to overturn the result on account of a failed drugs test by one of the Russian players, 2004 actually got off to a bright start for the national team. A thumping wi...

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1144: WALES: Tough times ahead for n

by : Alex Wolstenholme With Mark Hughes in charge of Wales for the last time on Wednesday night, speculation about a successor is rife among fans and media in the Principality. Welsh bookmakers stopped taking bets on John Toshack last week after a flood of money for the former Real Madrid boss alt...

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1136: WALES: Player ratings against

by : Antony Melvin Wales went down 2-0 but many of their players played above themselves in what proved to be a mismatch. The defence and goalkeeper clearly look like they could play in the Premiership. Whereas the much-lauded attack proved soft-centred. Jones 9 Kept Wales in the game at 1-0 for...

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1132: WALES: Has the Welsh threat be

by : David Hulott There seems to be a general acceptance that Wales owe a great debt to Mark Hughes for having turned a fairly hapless bunch of players into a squad capable of competing with and, occasionally, beating the best in the world. It can’t be doubted that Hughes has certainly improved th...

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781: WALES: Wales make a Titov them

by : Stephen Orford After much to-ing and fro-ing, wailing and gnashing of teeth the Welsh FA have finally admitted defeat in their bid to have the national team re-instated into Euro 2004 in Portugal, due to start next month. Their case was finally and absolutely rejected by the Court of Arbitra...

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