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*season ticket covers the 19 Premier League home matches plus a further seven cup credits (eligible for FA Cup or European competitions), so 26 matches in total Findings: – The cheapest season ticket in London is Fulham, which is £586 cheaper than Arsenal’s least expensive, which is a 147% increase. – Arsenal have the most […]
Findings: – The cheapest Manchester United season ticket is is £257 more than the cheapest at Manchester City, which is a 93% increase, meaning you can almost buy two season tickets at the Etihad for the price of one at Old Trafford. – The most expensive Manchester United season ticket is £255 more than the […]
Johan Djourou has been linked with a £6m January move to Napoli October 16th: Napoli midfielder, Valon Behrami, who is also Djourou’s international team mate, recommended Napoli renew their interest. October 10th: Flavio Ferraria, Djourou’s agent – “There is no real possibility that he will leave Arsenal as he is contracted to them until 2015. […]
The Spanish national team is blessed with a plethora of world-class midfield players, meaning that 30-year-old Mikel Arteta is still awaiting his first cap for the senior international side. Although the likes of Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Xabi Alonso have ensured that Spain have managed rather well without him, this blog looks at just how […]
Danny Rose was sent off for reacting to what appears to be racial abuse in England U21’s 1-0 victory against Serbia U21s. “I think there one or two racist incidents from the crowd, they’ve been reported to Uefa I believe by ourselves, and it’s in their hands now,” said U21 boss Stuart Pearce. “I’m very […]
Stadium: The National Stadium, Warsaw Kick-off: 8pm Team: Hart; Johnson, Jagielka, Lescott, Cole; Gerrard, Carrick; Milner, Rooney, Cleverley; Defoe.
As William Congreve might have put it ”Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn nor hell a fury like a journo scorned”. Craig Levein, always viewed as a media darling, is about to face a whirlwind. Those who favoured him will now turn on him. This retribution will not be pretty. It will […]
Out of the Henrys who have ruled England, Henry II would have been of more interest to Stéphane Sessegnon, assuming our Sess shares Lorik Cana’s hunger for cultural and historical knowledge – Henry was born in Le Mans, Sess played there. But for John McCormick‘s lurch into English Lit territory as his prelude to the […]
Born, June 2nd 1988 Joined Independiente, 1997 Became the youngest player to debut in the Argentine First Division at 15 years and 35 days, breaking the record previously established by Diego Maradona, July 5th 2003 Became the youngest player to compete in Copa Libertadores, February 2004 Scored his first goal for Independiente in a 2-2 […]
Internationals weekend means Pete Sixsmith goes out in search real football. A trip to South Yorkshire brought him closer than he might have wished to the flipside of democracy… In Yorkshire near Rotherham. It is a line from one of my favourite songs, Spencer The Rover, of which there are many versions one of which […]
The game was called off with 72 minutes played after Senegalese fans reacted to being 2-0 down (6-2 on aggregate) against the Ivory Coast. Flames appeared above the players’ tunnel shortly after Didier Drogba’s second goal and then it became apparent that fans were setting small fires all around the ground. Then the Ivory Coast […]
Manchester United strikers Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck scored the opening four goals, before Arsenal’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain made it 5-0, to secure three points for England last night in their World Cup qualifier against San Marino.
I was lucky when I first used to go to Manchester United matches, over fifty years ago. Although the team was in the painful early stages of recovery from the Munich Air Crash they still often managed to play wonderfully expressive football in keeping with the finest traditions of the club.Take this description of United’s […]
We all love a little gamble on the weekend, whether it is a well prepared, so called “dead cert” or a hopeful punt at a £1million return, few will deny it adds an extra hint of excitement to the best time of the week and can act as an insurance policy to your favourite team’s […]
It’s still early days in the 2012-13 season, but the turning point for the fortunes of Tottenham Hotspur may have been half-time in the home match to Queens Park Rangers. Spurs were 1-0 down, playing terribly against the side bottom of the table. QPR with central midfield duo Alejandro Faurlin and Esteban Granero to the […]
The good ship England football team is in ‘there be dragons territory‘. The old certainties of the Golden Generation are being shredded – Terry is gone, Ferdinand is in the wilderness, Lampard is increasingly a side-lined figure. Gerrard, in the twilight of his international career, is finally playing where he’d like to play. The sad […]
David Platt scored four, with Carlton Palmer and Les Ferdinand making it 6-0. England went on to beat Turkey, Poland, draw with Holland at home, lose to Norway and Holland away, before beating San Marino 7-1 away. They finished 3rd in the group behind Holland and Norway and didn’t go to the World Cup in […]
Victor Wanyama has been linked with a January move from Celtic to Manchester United October 10th: Wanyama – “I have heard a lot about my intended move to several clubs, the latest being Manchester United. Personally I just think those are rumours. My focus now remains with my team Celtic, whom I want to help […]
Salut! Sunderland is full of admiration for so much that SAFC does: community involvement, combat against racism, incentives for young supporters, encouragement to players to get out into areas of everyday life where their presence will bring smiles to faces. So it pains Colin Randall to have to bring you this wretched tale … The […]
His second coming didn’t start very well and critics were already calling for his head after the first three games, but it seems like Spurs have turned a corner and they owe it to Andre Villas Boas. After stepping out of Mourinho’s shadow and proving his mettle at Porto, the job at Chelsea seemed like […]