Tough Task For Mowbray!

Tony Mowbray is one of my most admired English managers. I started following his career when he took over Hibernian in the summer of 2004. He did a great job there and I was glad when he was appointed the manager of West Bromwich Albion. He led them to promotion playing some fantastic football in the process.

Life has however been tough in the premiership. A confirmation of the wide gulf between the premiership and the championship. They are at the bottom at the moment and although it's too early to write anyone off, I'm tempted to wonder where the quality they need will come from.

A forward line comprising Roman Bednar, Sherjill MacDonald and Luke Moore, all of them with about 4 goals in total do not sound exciting to me.

Maybe a couple of quality signings in January would do the magic.

Akin Alabi

A Standing Ovation For King Ronaldo!

Cristiano Ronaldo, on Tuesday, in what was not a surprise to any living soul, was crowned the best player in European football for 2008. The 23 year old Portuguese becomes the fourth Manchester United player to land the Ballon d'Or. The others were Dennis Law (1964), Bobby Charlton (1966) and George Best (1968) .

Ronaldo pulled in an amazing 446 as he left his closest "challenger", Lionel Messi with 281 points. Liverpool's Fernando Torres was third.

It's of no use going over Cristiano Ronaldo's achievements this year and like I said earlier on, no one was surprised Ronaldo won this. I'm sure even his biggest critics would agree.

There's no doubting the fact that he'll be crowned the world football of the year in a few months.

Congratulations Ronaldo.

Akin Alabi

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