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Fantasy can’t beat the Reality Star.

Fantasy can’t beat the Reality Star.
January 8, 2010 by Tim Killeen
As Christmas for many meant hangovers, left-over turkey and the obligatory tweaking of fantasy football (ff) teams, over-indulgence must now resonate. Early 2010, a time synonymous with resolutions, however, has so far been hijacked by the worst winter snap in decad...Read More

Beware of The Black Stars & The Elephants…

Beware of The Black Stars & The Elephants…
December 4, 2009 by Tim Killeen
With the 2010 World Cup draw just made, I thought there was no better time for some bold predictions. It was Pelé who once said - in that conceited manner of his - that an African nation would win the World Cup before Y2K. Then again he once infamously predicted Columbia wo...Read More

The Road To Equality?

The Road To Equality?
September 11, 2009 by Tim Killeen
Events have fortunately conspired since we last spoke, making the last fortnight as significant, as poignant, and as revealing as any that I care to remember. Significant, because the powers that be have finally sought to be proactive in the fight against inequality; poig...Read More

Early Impressions…

Early Impressions…
August 17, 2009 by Tim Killeen
Well the season finally got underway, dishing up some exciting, if unexpected, opening day results. None more so than Everton's uncharacteristic collapse against an inspired Arsenal side: whom might I add, looked, every inch, genuine contenders, despite offloading both Tour...Read More

Game Getting Greedier

Game Getting Greedier
August 14, 2009 by Tim Killeen
Juststill when we were all enjoying a summer free from the fickle world of football, like low budget reality television, it’s back –once again, in our faces, and sucking us all in. And, though there is something so fundamentally sickening about the modern game, like good...Read More

Editor’s Note: 2009-2010

Editor’s Note: 2009-2010
July 29, 2009 by Tim Killeen
Myself, Tim Killeen, started The EFP back in 2007. I am, of course, a soccer enthusiast, who not only loves to vent my passionate opinions about the game, but one who also loves to write; and I’m predominantly interested in developing better skills in this area. Creating ...Read More

Xavi to dictate matters in Rome

Xavi to dictate matters in Rome
May 27, 2009 by Tim Killeen
So here it is, the much anticipated match of the season: Manchester United v Barcelona; touted by many as the dream European final.   Spanish against English, the Counts of Catalonia against the Mancs of Lancashire, effervescent exuberance versus tireless ind...Read More

Plight of The Underdog; Looking Greener.

Plight of The Underdog; Looking Greener.
April 21, 2009 by Tim Killeen
What is it about the underdog I admire so much?   When we started The English Football Post, Stoke City were an outside bet for the play-offs - in the Championship, and Everton had all but relinquished any hope of ever dislodging England's untouchable 'Big Four'. Â...Read More

Away Days key to Stoke City’s Survival

Away Days key to Stoke City’s Survival
March 8, 2009 by Tim Killeen
For Stoke City supporters, this season has been an extraordinary journey.   Stoke have come along way since that reality biting opener at Bolton and the harsh lessons dished out during two away trips to Manchester and another in Blackburn.   When the fixture li...Read More

10 Things Missing From English Football

10 Things Missing From English Football
March 3, 2009 by Tim Killeen
Last Friday marked 10 years exactly when an English Premier League club (AstonVilla Vs Coventry 27/02/99) last fielded an all-English first eleven. Now, I am not suggesting for one second that foreign coaches and players have damaged the English game, as unquestionably t...Read More

External pressures loom as Liverpool concede the Title

External pressures loom as Liverpool concede the Title
February 22, 2009 by Tim Killeen
It's round about now when many of us are feeling deflated. I recall something I read over the festive period by the Tory Politician Anne Widdecombe who expressed her concern at the counter-productive nature of making over-ambitious resolutions on January 1st. Her pearls o...Read More

The Merseyside Derby – A Preview

The Merseyside Derby – A Preview
January 19, 2009 by Tim Killeen
Not having full control of ALL football matters at a club can hinder it, throwing money at it can also sabotage its chances (which is beginning to transpire at Chelsea, and Man City are inevitably soon to find out), and even sometimes; being too controlling, uber-stubbo...Read More

Title race – Fergie-Benitez interviews

Title race – Fergie-Benitez interviews
January 12, 2009 by Tim Killeen
In another fascinating chapter in the Premier League title race; United signalled their intentions with an authoratitive demolition of Chelsea, Liverpool's lacklustre performance at Stoke, hinting Rafa possibly should've held his tongue? Add a Comment below and  have ...Read More

Benitez bites back at Fergie – the interview

Benitez bites back at Fergie – the interview
January 10, 2009 by Tim Killeen
Rafa Benitez's premeditated rant against Man Utd and Ferguson yesterday had more than a hint of Kevin Keegan about it; but was Rafa right to take the bait from Fergie, and has he subsequently handed the spin-master Scot the upper hand in the run-in to the race for the Premi...Read More

All I want for Christmas

All I want for Christmas
December 20, 2008 by Tim Killeen
You know it never has been easy Whether you do or not resign Whether you travel the breadth of extremities Or stick to some straighter line - Joni Mitchell, ‘Hejira'. It has been an utterly spellbinding 12 months for us Stoke City supporters, culminating...Read More

Stoke tactics vindicated (Italia 90 revisited)

Stoke tactics vindicated (Italia 90 revisited)
November 10, 2008 by Tim Killeen
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. - George Orwell, ‘Such, Such were the joys' On a wet and windy evening, two old adversaries went at ea...Read More

Rafa’s Red Ambition

Rafa’s Red Ambition
October 13, 2008 by Tim Killeen
If like me, you sufferer from a paranoid disposition, think the majority of newspapers have it in for Liverpool (emanating from growing up in a time when the Reds dominated), or echo thoughts of conspiracy theorists and wonder whether that whole missing piece of the jigsaw t...Read More

Here today, gone tomorrow.

Here today, gone tomorrow.
October 1, 2008 by Tim Killeen
The season is in its early stages, yet already there seems to be a familiar pattern emerging. But with Manchester Utd off to a slow start, neighbours Manchester City rivalling Chelsea in the annoyingly ‘we’re richer than you’ claims, and Euro-beaters Arsenal slipping t...Read More

A Chemical World.

A Chemical World.
June 25, 2008 by Tim Killeen
A few months ago I wrote an article (croatia article) expressing my concerns about the direction of English International football & fears I had going into that game against Croatia. I also mentioned that prior to the defeat by Bilic’s chequered men, I was met by ...Read More

Back from the Brink – Stoke City

Back from the Brink – Stoke City
March 14, 2008 by Tim Killeen
These are testing times in football as we approach the business end of the season. With nervy title races, gritty relegation scraps, tempestuous fights for promotion and the Champions League yet to be decided; we face an exciting finale to what has already been a memor...Read More

A lesson learnt (For me and for Stoke City hopefully!)

A lesson learnt (For me and for Stoke City hopefully!)
February 29, 2008 by Tim Killeen
  It was the moment we had all been waiting for. And much more besides. Stoke City took on Preston at Deepdale on Tuesday night, in what was the 101st meeting between two of England’s most prestigious clubs. It was league leaders against a club fighting for survival, o...Read More

Exciting Times (for Stoke, Sunderland & Ireland)

Exciting Times (for Stoke, Sunderland & Ireland)
February 24, 2008 by Tim Killeen
These are intriguing times in football. Already in 2008; there has been the return of ‘King Kev’ - to the delight of the masses on Tyneside (and rightfully predicted by your humble narrator), an Italian taking charge of England, & another much older & wiser (...Read More

The public gets what the public wants

The public gets what the public wants
January 13, 2008 by Tim Killeen
Sometimes, it is only when you move away that you find out most about the place you left behind. After years of scrutinizing, it is this very wonderful paradox which has allowed me to become closer to understanding the nature of English football & the fundamental reas...Read More

Qualification? – Not Without Static

Qualification? – Not Without Static
November 20, 2007 by Tim Killeen
I awoke this morning overwhelmed by a familiar feeling of impending doom, thus igniting painful memories of a childhood flooded with extinguished dreams. For if England lose to Croatia – who have already qualified –tomorrow & subsequently fail to reach Euro 08, it...Read More

The Whole Of The Moon

The Whole Of The Moon
October 28, 2007 by Tim Killeen
In a week which saw Stan ‘not the man’ Staunton surplus to requirements by the Republic, debates continue on whether or not they – or any other team – should go ‘foreign’ in their search for a new saviour; or remain stubbornly stagnant & continue to stick...Read More

More Life In Southern Cemetery

More Life In Southern Cemetery
September 28, 2007 by Tim Killeen
And so the moment had arrived. The last time, in a long time at least, I would experience watching my team Liverpool in a Manchester ale house. The last time I’d be forced to switch allegiances on grounds of personal safety; and hopefully, yet highly unlikely, the...Read More

A Tale Of Two City’s

A Tale Of Two City’s
August 26, 2007 by Tim Killeen
  Many of us are still pinching ourselves as we reflect on what can only be described as an unthinkable end to the opening week of the season. Everything imaginable has happened with dreams realised and extinguished in one swift week in English football. What agony. What...Read More

Fergie to make amends at United?

Fergie to make amends at United?
August 26, 2007 by Tim Killeen
  In the uncharacteristic warmth of last April, I crammed into a smoky Manchester boozer and watched on in fascination as Ferguson’s latest assault on Europe came to yet another premature end. As Milan substitute Gillardino raced clear to score the decisive third goal,...Read More

Northern Soul

Northern Soul
August 18, 2007 by Tim Killeen
Welcome to the first edition of ‘Northern Soul’ dedicated to bringing you veracious tales; trends; trials and tribulations, of a truly incomparable footballing region. Join me this season as I attempt to uncover all the goings on in and around Manchester, Cheshire...Read More

Heart Of The Nation

Heart Of The Nation
August 18, 2007 by Tim Killeen
The Midlands is a region steeped in history; yet one still struggling to redefine itself after the carnage left by a decline in industry;  & a region recuperating from a footballing depression.  Fans of Wolves, Forest & Villa are still scratching their heads in ...Read More
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