Gordon Sharrock's world of football

GORDON SHARROCK: World of Football

11:10pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

Promised Land all it’s cracked up to be IT will pain Bolton Wanderers fans to hear it, but the events of Sunday afternoon provided conclusive proof that the Premier League is the most exciting, most marketable product in world sport.

GORDON SHARROCK: We'll all have a boring time with dull Roy at the helm

11:00pm Wednesday 2nd May 2012

AN old friend got me thinking last week whether I, like so many other football fans, had been mistaken in believing Harry Redknapp was the best man, in fact in some people’s eyes, the only man for the England job.

WORLD OF FOOTBALL: Blues must ditch nasty boys

11:20pm Wednesday 11th April 2012

Nasty boys must go if City are to succeed ROBERTO Mancini smiled in the face of adversity on Sunday evening, warning journalists that if he did sell Mario Balotelli in the summer, they would lose a major source of news stories as well as a supremely talented young footballer.

GORDON SHARROCK: Muamba story could change football’s mindset

11:40pm Wednesday 28th March 2012

Kevin Davies first raised the issue – and a few eyebrows in the process – when he expressed personal sadness that the only time fans applaud opposition players these days is when they are being carried off on a stretcher.

Wanderers show such dignity throughout Muamba ordeal

11:00pm Wednesday 21st March 2012

THE manner in which the football world – from the most humble fan to the game’s top official – has united in support of Fabrice Muamba has been quite overwhelming.

GORDON SHARROCK'S WORLD OF FOOTBALL: Passionate Pardew doesn't need to apologise

11:00pm Wednesday 7th March 2012

Passionate Pardew has nothing to apologise for I’VE never thought much of Alan Pardew and, must confess, I couldn’t understand why Newcastle made him their manager after sacking that very nice man, Chris Hughton.

Gordon Sharrock: Ireland game would be big hooligan risk

9:45am Wednesday 16th November 2011

IT has been suggested for some time – mainly in Ireland I should point out – that the Football Association has some sort of obligation to play a friendly in Dublin after English hooligans forced the abandonment of the last fixture there in 1995.

Gordon Sharrock: Marsh finally gets close to White Hot rival Didsy

9:45am Wednesday 16th November 2011

THERE was a delightful poignancy to seeing the way Wanderers’ Under-18s beat Liverpool on Saturday morning.

Gordon Sharrock: Beware FIFA backlash over poppy scandal

9:45am Wednesday 16th November 2011

HAVING taken Gordon Taylor to task a couple of weeks ago for, among other things, effectively forcing Manchester City to halve the one-month ban they had imposed on Carlos Tevez, it is only fitting to applaud the players’ union chief for giving the errant Argentinian the hard word, warning him that he could face the sack if he doesn’t start behaving himself.

Gordon Sharrock: Name change bursts Geordie feelgood bubble

9:46am Wednesday 16th November 2011

THE Newcastle United fan who refused to get too carried away with the Toon’s incredible start to the season on BBC Radio5 Live’s Six-O-Six phone-in the other week must have known there was a banana skin waiting round the corner.

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