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There’s a certain etiquette you’re supposed to follow when you get to the Premier League. For the first time, maybe ever, you get a transfer kitty made up of more than the proceeds of selling pre-match programs and Pukka pies at half time. You’ve got the real Sky Sports money now. But there are apparently […]
Pete Sixsmith risked the vagaries of an early morning shower and an irate cat to meet up with his old friends Rupert and Monty at Ashburton Grove. The Durham Branch of the Sunderland Supporters’ Association parked up the bus in north London and according to the pundits the team did the same. But after a […]
‘Player Power’ seems to be at its peak. We’re starting to hear more and more stories about players refusing to play, going against their contract, to try and force something, the majority to get a move out of the club. This makes you ask the question, is there any loyalty left in the game? Or […]
BFTGT: What would have to happen this season for you to class this as a successful one? Danny Pugsley: This has been the most asked question of me for the various previews this summer. Having done what City have the past couple of seasons there is a platform for continued success. By that, of course […]
BFTGT: What would have to happen this season for you to class this as a successful one? Andrew Weber: I think with the excellent summer we have had, bringing in three quality attackers to freshen things up and avoiding the transfer mishaps of the previous seasons, we have reason to be optimistic. It might be […]
Podolski was born in Poland to his two Polish parents and moved to near Cologne when he was a boy. When he was 10-years-old, he joined Cologne, and when he was 18-years-old he became a part of the first team squad, playing 20 games for them after making his début in November 2003. When he […]
BFTGT: What would have to happen this season for you to class this as a successful one? Rob Marrs: A top five finish, a Cup, playing some decent football and being on the back pages rather than the front. I’d say top four but we’ve fallen back over the last couple of years and all […]
It was announced this afternoon that Robin van Persie will wear Manchester United’s number 20 shirt this season, following speculation that he might be given Dimitar Berbatov’s number 9, despite the Bulgarian still being at the club. Who else has worn this shirt and what did they win when they wore it? 1993-1994: Dion Dublin […]
With the 21st season of Premier League football almost upon us, I thought I’d take a look back at how each of the 20 member clubs fared last time around in a variety of scoring categories. It should be noted that the figures for Reading, Southampton and West Ham United are taken from a 46-game […]
Jack Rodwell signed for Manchester City on a five-year-deal last weekend for £12m-£18m, depending on which newspaper you read. The transfer had been kept out of the press so whilst it came as no real surprise that Rodwell had left Everton, with him being linked to the top clubs for several years, the timing and […]
BFTGT: What would have to happen this season for you to class it as a successful one for your club? Mike Delap: Promotion. End of story. The signals that have come out of the club since relegation and over the course of the summer is that we want to go back up at the first […]
On the day of the annual curtain raiser of the English football season, the Charity Shield was this year contested between the League champions Manchester City and the winners of the FA Cup Chelsea. We were given a first hand view of two potential winners of the upcoming Premier League. With Manchester City being the […]
It was reported last night that Manchester United and Arsenal have agreed a £24m fee to take last season’s Premier League top scorer to the North West. This is the fourth time in seven years that Arsenal’s captain has left the club, with Van Persie following in the footsteps of Patrick Vieira (Juventus), Thierry Henry […]
BFTGT: What would have to happen this season for you to class it as a successful one for your club? Spooky: Quantify success because it tends to get confused with progression. A successful season would be winning silverware because historically that equates to something tangible. However, with football being the beast it is, we tend […]
Nobody turns failure into fuel like Sir Alex Ferguson. His response to a trophyless season is usually pretty uncomplicated: he just goes round collecting trophies like a giddy old broad in a supermarket sweep. Since his breakthrough in 1990, Ferguson has only failed to win something in five out of 22 seasons. His immediate response […]
BFTGT: What would have to happen this season for you to class it as a successful one for your club? Played off the Park: A top 10 finish and to generally be in and around the Play-Off area for the majority of the season. I feel this is a bit of a ‘transition season’, with […]
Once a month, Beautifully Red will leave his United bubble and bring you some beautiful GIF moments from some of the best and biggest games around. This time it’s the Community Shield where Man City beat Chelsea 3-2 at Villa Park. The game was hard fought with plenty of tough tackles and cards but also […]