Angry Fans

THE Irish Examiner’s chief soccer correspondent Liam Mackey is judge, jury and executioner (Bad news for you Cork Blue) as Angry Fans — like Manchester United — begins to wake from its summer slumber.

Few are safe this week, with Rio Ferdinand, Lawrie Sanchez, Martin O’Neill and Rafa Benitez in the firing line. Even Michel Platini is fair game!

HAD TO smile this morning when I read someone saying that Nani wasn’t so much the new Ronaldo as a rich man’s Lua-Lua. Whatever, he shares some of Ronaldo’s characteristics including the ability to score spectacular, match-changing goals, and take sly little kicks at defenders when the ref isn’t watching.