http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sat, 25 May 2013 12:12:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/23/laurent-koscielny-at-last-appreciated-but-will-leave-the-headlines-for-others-against-spain/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/23/laurent-koscielny-at-last-appreciated-but-will-leave-the-headlines-for-others-against-spain/#comments Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:41:10 +0000 Jamie Sanderson http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25612 Vicente Del Bosque is a man who doesn’t mix his words. He sits proudly, almost aggressively as the coach, the leader, the boss of Spain – the European and World Champions. They face France later, for a place in the last four of Euro 2012. It’s a crunch clash, but despite the heat and exhaustion of [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/23/laurent-koscielny-at-last-appreciated-but-will-leave-the-headlines-for-others-against-spain/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/08/30/dr-mourinho-declares-capello-unfit-for-national-service/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/08/30/dr-mourinho-declares-capello-unfit-for-national-service/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:13:08 +0000 Musa Okwonga http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=3873 As doctors go, he was unusually brutal in his diagnosis, and some would say that he was unprofessional in going so public with it. Last week, Dr. Mourinho took one look at the ailing Fabio Capello and proclaimed him unfit for national service. “It is clear. Capello will not work for England”, he announced. [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/08/30/dr-mourinho-declares-capello-unfit-for-national-service/feed/ 7 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/08/17/why-roy-keane-should-listen-to-bjork/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/08/17/why-roy-keane-should-listen-to-bjork/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:45:33 +0000 Musa Okwonga http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=3505 In “It’s Oh So Quiet”, an old Horst Winter song which she covered in 1995, Björk sang of the stillness that we feel the moment before we fall, suddenly and explosively, in love. Roy Keane, a brooding soul when it comes to his football, is prone to periods of long silence before his tongue falls, suddenly and explosively, in love with the truth; which is why these lyrics seem to capture him as well as anything you’ll find in music.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/08/17/why-roy-keane-should-listen-to-bjork/feed/ 1