8 Captains Blog

You may remember in my first blog post I made predictions for the this seasons title winners in some of Europe’s top leagues, most notably Kazakhstan. Well I thought as it is the New Year and we are pretty much at the half way point in the English domestic season I would take a look back at my predictions and see how well I am fairing so far. continue reading »

This weeks post is concentrating on the art of the penalty kick, fitting as the dreaded spot kick played its part in Girton’s game against Cherry Hinton, with both sides successfully dispatching from twelve yards and then later that evening we saw Frank Lampard’s tame effort for Chelski followed on Sunday by Jermain Defoe’s woeful strike against Tim ‘USA’ Howard in an enthralling contest at Goodison Park. continue reading »

Sitting here reading the latest on the Girton website I was dissapointed to hear about the departure of  Rob Stevens, 2008 captain and one of the linch pins of the reserve side.

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This week has been all about Capello and his less than English England team. This made me think what is Englishness and what exactly have we lost.

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