Keeping up with the football frenzy
- 4 May 06, 12:49 PM
The end of the season is always a busy time football-wise, with titles and trophies to be won, ups and downs decided, and all sorts of ins and outs on the horizon.
But I for one can't remember a time when there were so many big and exciting stories worthy of extra coverage all coming one after the other (and even on the same day, as they seemed to last Saturday!)
Rooney's injury and England squad conjecture, the whole Scolari/McClaren saga, Chelsea's title, Portsmouth putting Birmingham and West Brom down, Hearts in the Champions League - with Spurs hoping to follow suit, Curbishley quitting Charlton, the farewell to Highbury... the list goes on and on.
I haven't even mentioned Middlesbrough and Arsenal set for historic European finals in the next two weeks, a tasty-looking FA Cup final between Liverpool and West Ham, intriguing play-off battles, or several other stories you probably feel I have unfairly ignored.
And this with the World Cup finals only five weeks away.
So how do we do it all justice, given that - even here at the BBC - we can only do so much?
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