0 Have your say Gaffer for a day Richard Brook, aged 45 from Roslin, Scotland, gives his post-match thoughts on Pompey's win over Burton Albion. What did you think of that? Pompey have been a team of two halves this season and they got away with it in the second half.A draw would have been the fair result and if I was Nigel Clough I would be fuming about it. We got lucky.In the first half we deserved something, but not the second half. It only changed when Ronan Curtis came on.I was impressed with Burton, they will be gutted not to have got a point from that.So was it handball from Nathan Thompson?That has to be the most blatant handball I have ever seen!I was stood halfway up behind that goal and everyone thought the linesman was going to flag, it was reminiscent of Thierry Henry against the Republic of Ireland.We were celebrating the goal, but expected the referee to blow, only he didn’t. It looked so obvious, we couldn’t believe it … [Read more...] about Gaffer: Pompey defender’s handball at Burton reminded me of Thierry Henry
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Nottingham Forest are finding out there is no room for sentiment in football
On a weekend famous for miracles one of Forest’s very own ‘Miracle Men’ may need a resurrection of his own as Martin O’Neill looks to bring Nottingham Forest’s season back from the dead and put an end to a run of four successive defeats when Middlesbrough visit the City Ground on Monday. A two-time European Cup winner with Forest as a player, O’Neill was appointed in January in the hope that a club legend would lift the mood around the club after Aitor Karanka departed on the back of a few bad results. A flawed appointment: Why Martin O'Neill is not right for Nottingham ForestForest beaten at Sheffield United Ex-Mansfield Town boss Paul Cox ready to return to management … [Read more...] about Nottingham Forest are finding out there is no room for sentiment in football
Ex-Mansfield Town boss Paul Cox ready to return to management
Don’t be surprised to see former Mansfield Town boss Paul Cox back in football management soon. Cox last managed at Guiseley, where he was sacked in February 2018.Jaded, he left Stags by mutual consent in November 2014, followed by spells at Torquay and Barrow.Now he is enjoying the game again and admitted: “I am starting to get a bit of a bug back.“I had had enough and wanted to try to look at other aspects of where my life is.“I have been to a of games this season and over the last two months I have really got a bit of a hunger now, which is good for me to step back into a hot seat. I think the break has done me a world of good.”Cox admitted he went back into management too soon after leaving Mansfield.“From the Eastwood days, I woke up one day to find myself in the Football League,” he said.“I lost track of other things in my life - my children, my family - because of the hours I put into wanting to be successful.“It took a lot … [Read more...] about Ex-Mansfield Town boss Paul Cox ready to return to management
Shane Lowry holds onto the lead at RBC Heritage as stormy weather impacts day two
Shane Lowry holds onto the lead at RBC Heritage as stormy weather impacts day two Independent.ie Ireland's Shane Lowry kept hold of the lead until play was suspended due to darkness after a weather-blighted day two of the RBC Heritage tournament in South Carolina. https://www.independent.ie/sport/golf/shane-lowry-holds-onto-the-lead-at-rbc-heritage-as-stormy-weather-impacts-day-two-38033974.html https://www.independent.ie/incoming/article38033973.ece/fcec0/AUTOCROP/h342/lowry.jpg Email Ireland's Shane Lowry kept hold of the lead until play was suspended due to darkness after a weather-blighted day two of the RBC Heritage tournament in South Carolina. He was a shot ahead and nine under overall with two greens to go when his round was truncated, leaving him three under through 16 holes at a stormy Hilton Head. Lowry had picked up two shots before play was halted due to the weather at 12.48pm local time - and did not get under way again for another three hours and 43 minutes. … [Read more...] about Shane Lowry holds onto the lead at RBC Heritage as stormy weather impacts day two
‘It doesn’t look great, but I didn’t dive’
Then he turned on his phone. Perhaps his ears should have been burning, but unbeknownst to the second-row his name was being taken in vain on television and the reaction was stronger online. In the 70th minute of a tense game, Edinburgh were going through the phases in Munster's half when their prop Pierre Schoeman stepped into Beirne's path and sent him flying. After reviewing the incident, referee Pascal Gauzere reversed a penalty in Munster's favour and they scored the winning try from the resultant lineout. The nature of the Kildare native's reaction was the touch-paper for a debate that lasted a week as Richard Cockerill accused him of diving and undermining the game's values, and the podcasts, radio shows and midweek TV review shows chewed over what many perceived as a theatrical fall. On social media, the Munster fans stood up for their man as things descended the way they do online. All the while, the man in question's phone kept buzzing and he opted against making a public … [Read more...] about ‘It doesn’t look great, but I didn’t dive’