Mike Walters Trinity Mirror Trinity Mirror 2010-03-12T21:36:59Z 2010-03-13T05:00:53Z At last, after all the rapacious tales of vanity, greed and sleaze, this is a story everyone in football can celebrate.Premier League referee Mark Halsey's comeback in the middle this week, after his remarkable recovery from cancer, was not just a personal triumph amid the moral bankruptcy of the grand old game.It procured a minor miracle among the torrent of goodwill messages he received from players, managers, colleagues and complete strangers.For among the sackfuls of mail, endless bleepin...

At last, after all the rapacious tales of vanity, greed and sleaze, this is a story everyone in football can celebrate.Premier League referee Mark Halsey's comeback in the middle this week, after his remarkable recovery from cancer, was not just a personal triumph amid the moral bankruptcy of the grand old game.It procured a minor miracle among the torrent of goodwill messages he received from players, managers, colleagues and complete strangers.For among the sackfuls of mail, endless bleepin...

2010-03-13T05:00:53Z 2010-03-05T16:43:44Z 2010-03-05T22:45:33Z Surely, amid the catalogue of Pompey crimes, it would be the greatest sporting anomaly of all.Last year, Luton Town managed to win a trophy at Wembley and be relegated out of the Football League in the same month.But when the music stops, and the fantasists playing pass-the-parcel with Portsmouth’s ownership have stripped the last layer of wrapping from a famous old club, they may yet pull off a stupendous double - winning the FA Cup and going out of existence in the same season.It would be a...

Surely, amid the catalogue of Pompey crimes, it would be the greatest sporting anomaly of all.Last year, Luton Town managed to win a trophy at Wembley and be relegated out of the Football League in the same month.But when the music stops, and the fantasists playing pass-the-parcel with Portsmouth’s ownership have stripped the last layer of wrapping from a famous old club, they may yet pull off a stupendous double - winning the FA Cup and going out of existence in the same season.It would be a...

2010-03-05T22:45:33Z 2010-03-12T16:28:49Z 2010-02-26T21:52:10Z Warming his hands around a full teapot to beat the biting cold, Britain’s brainiest footballer waited for the feeling in his fingers to return.“Raynauds disease,” muttered Clarke Carlisle. “Cold weather stifles the circulation. Can’t feel my fingers or my ears. When the feeling comes back it’s agony - not just needles and pins, more like knives and daggers.”Burnley defender Carlisle’s brush with frostbite, as he joined teenagers setting off on an orienteering expedition with their maps and co...

Warming his hands around a full teapot to beat the biting cold, Britain’s brainiest footballer waited for the feeling in his fingers to return.“Raynauds disease,” muttered Clarke Carlisle. “Cold weather stifles the circulation. Can’t feel my fingers or my ears. When the feeling comes back it’s agony - not just needles and pins, more like knives and daggers.”Burnley defender Carlisle’s brush with frostbite, as he joined teenagers setting off on an orienteering expedition with their maps and co...

2010-02-26T21:52:10Z