James Bird

5 days ago | goal.com | James Bird

There’s a kid running down the street, and nobody knows if he is French or Italian. And that does matter. PSG have just gone three–nil up, and he did a bad thing. I’m not necessarily going to go into details of what has happened, but outside a bar somewhere in Milan, it has exploded. People are scarpering, glasses are smashed, and the boy running is very lucky that when people catch up with him, he is actually Italian. The night has gone from light to heavy extremely quickly. It’s why I’m here.

1 month ago | goal.com | James Bird

Icons At the start of the 1976/77 First Division season, Steve Hunt was a 20-year-old winger on the fringes of the Aston Villa first team. Preparing to play for his boyhood club’s reserves one morning in July, Steve was called into the managerial office and told that an offer had been put in for him by New York Cosmos and that he needed to speak with Joe Mallett, the assistant manager.

1 month ago | goal.com | James Bird

The penalty area is a different land speaking a different language and requiring a different currency. It means different things to different people. When I enter the penalty area during a football match, that’s when the chaos starts. It’s a new time zone. I frantically start to worry how close the defenders are to me, how quickly the angle to the goal is changing, and which bills I’ve stopped opening the letters for. The penalty area, for me, is a house of carnage.

1 month ago | goal.com | James Bird

Welcome to MUNDIAL’s Monday Hat-Trick. Three very short stories about three football things that excited, intrigued or shocked us over the course of the weekend. It’s as simple as that. What you’re always looking for is someone you are able to say they just get it about. Could be a new potential love of your life, or a new work colleague or someone who is helping you decorate your house, or it could be a football manager. You want a new football manager to get your club, to get your city, to get you.

1 month ago | ejeprime.com | Rosa Taberner |James Bird

Newdock suma y sigue. La compañía ha anunciado este miércoles que ha finalizado la construcción de su nuevo parque logístico Las Viñas II, el segundo activo que desarrolla en Illescas (Toledo). El complejo está compuesto por tres naves: una de 52.000 metros cuadrados y otras dos de 14.500 metros cada una, sumando un total de 81.000 metros cuadrados construidos sobre una parcela de 128.000 metros cuadrados.