Aston Villa supposedly cracked in their game of bluff with Liverpool over Stewart Downing when the bidding hit £20million. There’s a word missing in that sentence – it’s ‘up’ and should immediately follow ‘cracked.’ Paying £20m for Downing is the worst bit of transfer dealing since paying £20m for Jordan Henderson. Kenny Dalglish is spending money like it has gone out of fashion – the ‘it’ being Scottishness A club reduced a couple of years ago to getting Sotirios Kyrgiakos on a free – they were robbed – has now spent £35m on Andy Carroll, £23m on Luis Suarez, £20m on Henderson, £7m on Charlie Adam, and £20m on Downing. You can only assume King Kenny was the Brit who scooped that EuroMillions jackpot – he’s won everything else in Europe – or his missus is in charge of buying at Anfield. The signing of Downing is a further signal that Dalglish is worrying more about nationality than price – if they’re English they’re worth it. Last night he tabled a £14m bid for Sean Bean. Downing has been agitating for a move from Villa for ages. In fact, ever since seeing Ashley Young leave and Emile Heskey stay. He brings to Anfield an educated left foot, but unfortunately his right foot is thick. The England wide man is 7-4 with Hills to outscore former team-mate Young, now at Manchester United, in the Premier League this season and 10-11 to make more league starts. Hills offer 7-4 for *Dalglish to start with between six and eight Englishmen in the season-opener against Sunderland. Read more: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opi...eason-opener-article768413.html#ixzz1SD3W2hu7 Sign up for MirrorFootball's Morning Spy newsletter Register here
I didnt even Put this in the Liverpool Section of the site, as its utter Rubbish and it doesnt deserve to be in there.This chap must be on something as he seems absolutely deluded in some of the rubbish he is writting.How the hell Do the Mirror let their employee's write such rubbish.
Did you really take his article seriously? Hes been writing humorous articles on betting for the mirror a good while now.
His articles are supposed to be funny. He takes the piss out of everyone he writes about,probably man u more than anyone.
yeah hes the betting man in the mirror.to be fair all his pieces are like that.he has to flesh out his column somehow instead of just writing get on downing to score more goals than young!!
He hates the mancs..he regularly rips the piss out of them any chance he gets! "The greatest Scottish myths are the Loch Ness Monster, Robert The Bruce's spider, "it's my round, Jimmy" and practically everything that comes out of Fergie's gob. Sir Alex still peddles the myth that he knocked Liverpool off their perch when the truth, as this column first pointed out, is that Liverpool had fallen from that perch long before he won his first title at Old Trafford."
lads, he does the gambling column in the mirror, quite funny sometimes-as far as I can make out he's a red, takes the p1ss out of blues & mancs regularly
He is a red..also if you have a genuine betting dispute with a bookmakers, you can e-mail the details, then he will plead your case for you.
Fair enough.Like I said never heard of him before as I don't read the Mirror.I did think that it was quite funny to read but was a little suspicious of it.
Has to a piss take of sorts lads, on the link that Abbey posted up, commenting on Gary Neville’s appearance: “The former United skipper is the kind of guy who, when having sex (as if), fantasises he's someone elseâ€
Lads his brother is Jimmy McGovern and his articles are about the only things worthwhile reading in The Mirror. Most of the time he is pro Liverpool but sticks the boot in when he wants and even when he does it is tongue in cheek. The only people who find his stuff unfunny are the ones who take football too seriously.