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As usual the FIFA World Player of the Year Award has been a complete and utter embarresment from start to finish. Ever since its inception in 1991, the FIFA Award has been at best ill-informed and at worst nothing more than a poll that measures players tabloid celebrity status. It seems that...

There is no doubt that Trap has to go. Okay, he went into the game against Wales with a freakishly long injury list but Italy should be capable of beating sides like that comfortably. Yet right from the kick-off, the team was nervous, panicky even, a state of mind typified by Nesta's alarming...

I am saddened to hear that David Trezeguet is back in the starting eleven. Why so, I hear you cry, didnt he score 24 goals last season? And you'd be right. But, as just as George Weah did at Milan, the French striker is a thorn in Juve's smooth passing game. Just think about how many of his...

Rio Ferdinand? He loses his concentration about 20 times a game and has the positional sense of a bat wearing a blindfold. Walter Samuel? Hard as nails but as slow as, er, nails. And where are the two Paraguayan's Gamarra and Ayala? Patrik Andersson? Igor Tudor? Nesta and Cannavaro are way ahead...