The Subs Bench Daily Blog and Weekly Podcast

The European season is over and now is the time of the year when football fans everywhere experience that empty feeling in the pit of their stomach. Never fear though, as there is still football to get us through safely until August. Starting this week is a crucial round of World Cup Qualifiers, with several [...]

Matt hosts the Live-chat tonight. Chat starts at 8:30 Houston Dynamo v. TFC

With the end of the season comes the inevitable selection of a team of the season. With me being a bitter supporter of a non top four team I am selecting my team of the season without any players from the top four clubs. So here we go, in the standard English formation of 4-4-2. [...]

After winning the Champions League final with Barcelona on Wednesday night, Henry has a trophy cabinet unrivaled by most players. He has a World Cup and European Championship with France, along with a long list of domestic honours including English Premiership titles, a Spanish La Liga title, FA Cup, Kings Cup and several golden boot awards, [...]

It’s like a match made in the heavens.  Globe and mail is reporting that the whites of Madrid are making a trip overseas to play on the famous plastic pitch in Toronto.  The only other question is how much MLSE will want from you to see the match.

The season has finish, making now as good a time as any to review pre-season predictions. On my previous blog I previewed each club and my expectations for them in August. I am sure everyone has already read these (what with my old blog being so popular), but in case you haven’t, here were my predictions [...]

The north-east is a deeply saddened by the loss of two beloved members of the community. Both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United brought us much entertainment, though they were both naive, and it was this naivety that ultimately led to their downfall. All to to often they were pre-occupied with each other, so by the time [...]

I dont know how it happened but we missed a week!  Well Matt and I are back (despite technological problems) to apologize for leaving all of you hanging.  We talk UEFA cup, relegation battle, round up Europe and then give our top 5 EPL managers of the season.  Enjoy!

This weekend Rafa Benitez congratulated Manchester United for winning the league, but emphasised that he didn’t want to congratulate Sir Alex Ferguson. This could only have been met with a smile from Ferguson, who now knows he has well and truly gotten into Benitez’s head. Many people compared Benitez’s attack on Ferguson mid-season to Keegan’s [...]

The Premiership lost a friend on Sunday. Although not with us for very long, they were loved by many and tolerated by most. They were very generous, a generosity that was demonstrated through the charitable donations of their defense every week, giving to those even much better off than themselves. Ironically, it was this generosity [...]