Edward looks into his crytal ball, his murky, murky crystal ball.
So here they are, my meticulously crafted predictions for the games being played this weekend, how many of these will actually be wrong? In all probability the whole lot of them, but I don’t mind. As an Evertonian, embarrassment is the badge of all my […]

Edward takes a look at some curious decisions Rafa Benitez has been making in order to challenge Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea.
Is Rafa completely and utterly losing the plot? Whilst the ugly growth on his chin points to a mid-life crisis, there are lots of other pieces of evidence that this man does not respond […]

Edward hopes for a better European romp than the last time.
When David “Moyesiah” Moyes was supping on Champagne following his teams miraculous Champions League qualification season he couldn’t have possibly envisaged such a painful nausea inducing set of results that awaited his men in Europe.
Rumours crept around that UEFA didn’t want both Liverpool and […]

First it was defender Tal Ben Haim , ’smirking’ as he trained with his Chelsea team mates, whilst predicting victory for Israel. Now it is Russia coach Gus Hiddink who has gone that little bit further; The Independent is reporting with the headline:
“Russia will deliver killer blow to England hopes, vows Hiddink”
The Independent, not […]

Edward wonders if the pigs have gotten it wrong.

In response to Saturday’s article in the Daily Mail about the survey which shows Manchester United, Chelsea and Leeds having rowdy and violent fans, we’ve decided to open it up to COS readers to say what Police Review Magazine won’t.
In analyzing my own experiences, I think I’ve […]

Lots of lists for Arsenal these days as Edward tries to fare a little better than COS reader Scott. 
Arsenal are what everyone should aspire to, a team of skillful fit players. Show Arsene an athlete and he’ll mould them into a footballer. As an Evertonian exiled in the south east during my formative years I […]

Edward has read up on all the latest England team news, so you don’t have to. Not that anyone was going to bother anyway.
So in an attempt not to bore everyone silly I am going to corral all the snore-worthy England news into one concise posting.
Stevie G has “declared himself fit” trumpets the Independent, whilst […]

Yesterday we asked you who the most overrated team was, today we want to know the most underrated manager.
Blackburn and Everton have a lot of reasons to thank Mark Hughes and David Moyes, Bolton may yet survive this season on the back of Sam Allardyce’s monumental achievements at Bolton while Steve Coppell still has […]

Two of Chelsea’s most recent high-priced flops reared their expensive heads in the press today. The Times reports that the Kaiser, Franz Beckenbauer, has told Michael Ballack that he was a bit of a turd jockey for joining Chelsea and that he should have moved somewhere else. And what medium did the Kaiser use to […]

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With newspapers and pundits falling over themselves to predict the next team to challenge the big four, and a summer full of expensive signings the bald truth is that not everybody is going to be able to win the title. So who are the […]