The latest article from The Secret Footballer is on simulation. Focusing on the circus that was Wednesday’s Champions League first leg El Clasico he talks about diving being a far too apparent blemish on the game.
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TSF on diving
The latest article from The Secret Footballer is on simulation. Focusing on the circus that was Wednesday’s Champions League first leg El Clasico he talks about diving being a far too apparent blemish on the game. (more…)
TSF on footballers and affairs
The latest article from The Secret Footballer is about the temptations for footballers. Why do they play away from home and why do their wives put up with it? Another enjoyable article from our mystery man at The Guardian. (more…)
The latest article from The Secret Footballer is about the temptations for footballers. Why do they play away from home and why do their wives put up with it? Another enjoyable article from our mystery man at The Guardian.
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The Scandinavian friend TSF forgot wasn’t English
Which Scandinavian was he referring to in the April 2nd article? (more…)
Which Scandinavian was he referring to in the April 2nd article?
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Have you seen TSF at Cheltenham?
In his article on the 19th of March The Secret Footballer talks about gambling on horses. Were you dining on a table in a tent at Cheltenham when a footballer tore up a load of £20 notes? If so, who was it. And who was he with? “I once revelled in a team-mate’s generosity after […]
In his article on the 19th of March The Secret Footballer talks about gambling on horses. Were you dining on a table in a tent at Cheltenham when a footballer tore up a load of £20 notes? If so, who was it. And who was he with?
“I once revelled in a team-mate’s generosity after he bought drinks for an entire tent full of people starting from the end of the race that his horse had won to the start of the next. “Happy hour” he called it. It cost him about £5,000. What I didn’t enjoy so much was the player who, at the same event, amassed about £25,000 over the course of six or seven races, picked up a wedge of £20 notes then tore them in half and threw them over a table of diners behind us already upset by our antics throughout the day.”
Or do you know who it was who entertained “Happy Hour”?
Half the England team conspire against The Secret Footballer
“It isn’t because we’re a superior breed – even I wouldn’t take on that argument with half the England team conspiring against me” – Hmmm he is saying half of the England team are against him. Is he Wayne Bridge?! (more…)
“It isn’t because we’re a superior breed – even I wouldn’t take on that argument with half the England team conspiring against me” – Hmmm he is saying half of the England team are against him. Is he Wayne Bridge?!
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Are you the man at the London club?
“There is one man at a London club who shouts the same thing at me from the same seat every season. Now I just smile and he laughs, happy that I have heard him.” – From The Secret Footballer’s article on March 12th. Are you that man? Help us lift the lid!
“There is one man at a London club who shouts the same thing at me from the same seat every season. Now I just smile and he laughs, happy that I have heard him.” – From The Secret Footballer’s article on March 12th.
Are you that man? Help us lift the lid!
Has a friend who plays for Liverpool?
In the article on 19th Feb The Secret Footballer said “A friend of mine recently told me his team lacked any clear direction or ambition and, as a result, problems came about which had not been addressed. He said things got so bad that a group of players even began to raise the possibility that […]
In the article on 19th Feb The Secret Footballer said “A friend of mine recently told me his team lacked any clear direction or ambition and, as a result, problems came about which had not been addressed. He said things got so bad that a group of players even began to raise the possibility that it could be a deliberate ploy by the manager to get himself sacked.”
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The manager still ‘wanting to be a player
Ok, so who can this manager be? It was when The Secret Footballer was still a young man: (more…)
Ok, so who can this manager be? It was when The Secret Footballer was still a young man:
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