When Wayne Rooney came on as sub last week, he had gone about 4 weeks since his previous game for Man Utd. With lightning fast mathematics, The Bung calculated that with his widely reported, new £200,000 per week wage, that meant he had collected £800,000 in those 4 weeks without kicking a ball. When we thought further about this, we realised that even if we were able to earn...
The Bung has just got around to watching Match of The Day from a couple of weeks ago and we almost dropped our glass of Chardonay with shock when we heared Mark Lawrenson say that referees do favour the “big” teams! Not so much because it isn’t true but because we have rarely heard a pundit actually say this. It happened in an exchange between Gary Lineker and Lawro...
This image shows the current Scottish Premier League, but it could be the same snapshot from any time in the last 25 years. In that time, no-one other than Celtic or Rangers have won the top division, and Hearts and Motherwell are the only other teams to have finished in the top two. Quite clearly, this isn’t healthy for Scottish football. So, The Bung has come up with a...
In recent weeks, both Chris Hughton and Roy Hodgson have been under pressure to defend their position, although both for different reasons. For some bizarre reason, Mike Ashley appears to think that Hughton isn’t the man to lead Newcastle, and although The Bung is not usually Newcastle fans’ biggest fan (you can hear a pin drop in St James Park some match days), we haven’t heard a single Geordie...
On Wednesday night against France, it took England less than 30 seconds to hoof a hopeful long ball forward and lose the immediate impetus. And that set the tone for the rest of the match: apart from a few neat passing movements in the second half, it was still long ball, long ball, long ball. And I just don’t get it. Why? Why do England still think that this...
