Left field
The Reuters global sports blog
from Reuters Soccer Blog:
Soccer scores and the power of the pub
Let's be honest here, people, predicting the English football scores has proved to be a lot trickier than many of us imagined.
You'd have thought that the frankly obsessive interest most of us here at Reuters Soccer Blog Heights take in football would see us approach this competition with the pitiless, sweeping brilliance of Celta Vigo in their 'EuroCelta' heydey of 1998-2000*.
But no. It turns out we're strictly second division, rather like Celta now, in fact, when it comes to predicting the scores. Still, at least we now know why.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger puts his success in football down to being brought up in the Croix d'Or bistro in Duttlenheim. Wenger said:
