Fabien Barthez

On the eve Barthez's potential to a world cup final i've decided to write about him. On the back of frances world cup win in 1998, Barthez gained a reputation for flair and competency through his performances in denying some of the worlds best strikers in the worlds ultimate competition. subsequently Man U spent £7+ million bringing him to england to fill a hole left by the departure of the epic peter schmieichel. indeed this problem has been there all the time up until the signing of edwin van der sar. Barthez's continual antics however led to his eventual departure from Manchester to ...  Read the complete review

If you had said to Fabian Bhartez theres was going to be a stike today he probably would have ducked and then blocked this end of the channel tunnel (think about it). This has to be the worst signing at Old Trafford since Peter Davenport. The career move is a bigger disaster than Dan Quayle,(the man who asked a young lady at a function who she was,replied im your secret service agent),when he added the e of the end of potato. If there was one game that the Frenchman was seeking his redemption in, statistically the omens were not good in this crunch encounter. Chelsea have only lost three times in twenty eight before today’s noon kick-off ...  Read the complete review

For Manchester United, this entire season has been one faltering stumble after another. It started way back in pre season friendlies as Alex Ferguson started out with a new formation to accommodate his big money signings, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Juan Sebastian Veron. The match at Old Trafford against Celtic had nothing much on it but the Scottish champions simply overran United for most of the game. Never mind, we thought, just an aberration, things will be alright once the real stuff starts. However, the Charity Shield clash with Liverpool was no better as an in form Michael Owen made the United defence look pedestrian and leaden footed. Then as the ...  Read the complete review

I remember the first time I ever saw Fabien Barthez play was during the 1998 World Cup finals, when he was part of the France team which went on to win the tournament for the first time. My immediate reaction was that he was a very chancy goalkeeper, in the mould of Liverpool's crazy Zimbabwean Bruce Grobelaar, but he did have a certain flair and was very effective, denying some of the best strikers in the world time and time again. I suspended judgement at that time because there's a saying in football that you make your own luck and at least Barthez seemed to enjoy his football and was one of those characters that are few and far between in modern ...  Read the complete review

There’s some stuff you just can’t doubt, like, umm, David Beckham only scores from free-kicks because I say ‘He won’t score from there!’ (I got a few rather horrid looks from some rather drunk men when I stood up and screamed it very loudly in the last World Cup’s England Vs Argentina match, but hey, who cares, it worked, even though we did lose (but lets blame Shearer for that). It doesn’t work for Manchester United as much as England at the moment, but then that’s another thing you can’t doubt: Manchester United ain’t on form. No sir. And ooh, what’s that about? Because there’s a lot of things to ...  Read the complete review