The Subs Bench Daily Blog and Weekly Podcast

Some great A-League action as Brisbane Roar’s Ivan Franjic scores a world-class goal and then follows up with a very creative celebration straight from the training ground.

A lot has been made over the state of English football over recent months, particularly after another disappointing tournament performance this summer by the ‘golden generation’. With the upcoming European Championships the last realistic chance for the likes of Gerrard, Terry, Ferdinand and Lampard to represent England at a major championship, eyes are turning to [...]

The Windsor Lancers brought their home season to an end with a very impressive 2-0 win over Brock. The day marked the end of Lancer captain Darrin Dielemans five years on the team, and the team produced a performance worthy of the occasion, with Dielemans himself one of the stars. Windsor started the game well, [...]

It was a flashback to 2009 as Matt and Zach are joined by fellow TSB founder Brent Edwards. The guys discuss Liverpool’s on and off pitch troubles as well as the bad tackles from the weekend’s EPL games. As usual the guys tackle all the big questions such as does Kevin Davies deserve to be an England [...]

Matt is joined by Zach this week as they review the Lancer’s weekend matches versus Waterloo and Laurier. The guys managed to survive Saturday nights biblical storm to record four points and two goals. We got coach Steve Hart’s reactions to both games. Team GP W L T PTS Western 11 10 0 1 31 York [...]

It was a long time coming, but the Windsor Lancers finally got their first home win of the season after a 2-1 victory against Laurier. Windsor got off to the perfect start with midfielder Michael Watson taking advantage of some sloppy Laurier defending to lob the keeper inside the first minute.  Laurier had some early [...]

A cold, windy night in Windsor was not improved the action on the field as the Lancers battled their way to a third consecutive 0-0 draw, this time against Waterloo. The weather did play its part as neither team was able to sustain possession for extended periods. Windsor had a brief flurry of chances at [...]

In case you missed it on the podcast (shame on you), here is the latest hit from Johnny Heitinga and the Toffees as they express their feelings about the discussions regarding a shared Liverpool and Everton stadium. There is a guest singer this time around, enjoy don’t share a ground