The Subs Bench Daily Blog and Weekly Podcast

Another day another dollar.  If only that was the case I wouldn’t have to worry about my lack of a summer job.  We cover all of Europe’s big news and give our thoughts about Toronto FC’s win over the Wizards.  We also give our top five Ryan Giggs moments as an apology for getting at [...]

If you follow the show Soccer AM in the UK.  You’ll know that the crossbar challenge is a feature every week.  If you are lucky at least one player from the team hits it.  Last week it was newly-promoted Wolves who took the challenge and hit the bar an unreal four times!  If this is [...]

                         So John Carver has left Toronto FC after only six games of the 2009 season. No matter what the reasons are, he knew what the situation was both in Toronto and MLS after last season, and if he didn’t like it he should have done the right thing by the club and its [...]

            “Arise Sir Ryan Giggs” is the honour that should have been given to Giggs to recognise his career achievements, but instead it was the PFA Player of the Year award, which appears to be a very popular topic on The Subs Bench today. As I predicted when the PFA nominations were released, Ryan Giggs has been [...]

Well the PFA now have egg on their face after they got grilled from every outlet over Giggs even being nominated for player of the year.  Yes Giggs is a legend and a player everyone would want on their team.  But for the sake of fun, let’s compare him to the previous players, excluding John [...]

Dear Diary               Guess what? I am the best player in England! And I only had to start 12 games to do it. Who knew it was so easy? To think all those years I started every game on the left wing, playing such dazzling football and never won. Turns out all I had to [...]

Frank Lampard was recently criticised on British radio for the treatment of his children. Refreshingly, he called the radio DJ responsible and defended his position. Despite your personal opinion of Lampard, his personal life should never be questioned, especially his treatment of his children! I couldn’t find the name of the clown on LBC Radio [...]

Fresh on the back on Charlton being relegated to League One, a 10 point deduction for Southampton on the basis of the Football League insolvency rules will see them also in League One next season. While we all enjoy seeing the best players in the world playing every week in the Premier League, these two [...]

Dear Diary,             I am not sure what happened, one minute I was celebrating Guti scoring a great goal, and then the next thing I knew there was two players knock-out on the ground and Iker was escorting me off the pitch? I told everybody I was sorry though. I was just frustrated at having [...]

Hey guys, sorry it’s been a while but we’ve finished our exams and are re-newing our commitment to getting you our weekly podcast.  We review some crazy premier league games and talk about TFC as usual.  Pepe also features in our blow up of the week, and our Top-5 features five players who should of [...]