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Rio Ferdinand was left out of England’s Euro 2012 squad for “footballing reasons” according to Roy Hodgson, although it is widely accepted that the England manager preferred John Terry and the two couldn’t be in the same squad following the Chelsea captain shouting “black cunt” at Rio’s brother. The fact Martin Kelly, who had struggled […]
Eight games into the new season and Manchester United haven’t fully got going, failed to purchase the midfielder they needed, leak goals at a startling rate and have kept just two clean sheets. Dissecting those two games, Wigan had ten men and Galatasaray could and should have scored at least 3. In simple terms, United […]
Last week saw the launch of FIFA 13, and to celebrate we hosted the first ever FIFA 13 Celebrity Cup, a chance for our biggest celebrity fans to take each other on and see who is the real FIFA King. The people involved were Joe Hart (Manchester City), Sam Tomkins (Wigan Warriors), Elliott Bennett (Norwich […]
Stevan Jovetic has been linked with a January move from Manchester City to Fiorentina after rejecting their interest in the summer September 3rd: Jovetic – “I received important offers in the summer and I thought about what to do but the club promised me that they would build a great team, and that has happened. […]
In Part I of this article I compared English football with Spanish by comparing how well teams did in European competition. Now it’s time to look deeper, using different criteria to judge the strength of the leagues. Putting the Catalans to one side for the time being (finally), why is it that Chelsea – the […]
The Premier League threw up its usual amount of excitement and quality again this weekend. Vote for your favorite goal of the weekend from the following 5 GIFS: 1.Demba Ba (Newcastle United v Reading) 2.Luis Suarez (Liverpool v Norwich City) 3.Nikica Jelavic (Everton v Southampton) 4.Gareth Bale (Spurs v Manchester United) 5.Shinji Kagawa (Manchester United […]
– Paul Ince’s son, Tom, has been linked with a £5m move from Blackpool to Manchestser United Ian Holloway: “It’s absolute rubbish. The way Tom’s playing, the best clubs in the world might want him at the end of the season. Manchester United are one of those but I’m sure they would be talking to […]
John Terry is a more interesting and complex man than most of us think. Here is a man who – to many – embodies everything wrong with the modern footballer. The view is he is grossly overpaid, egotistical, he is a thug, he is rapacious, he is a cheat, a liar, a man-child. He believes […]
I don’t need to introduce AFC Ajax to you. I’m pretty sure you all know this club, its rich history, its world famous youth academy, the legendary players the club has produced. You are all football fans with knowledge in your bags, you know your stuff. But if I asked you to name three players […]
QPR v West Ham – A first half goal from Bobby Zamora was not enough to let QPR take anything away from their eventual 2-1 defeat to Tottenham. Despite the efforts of Mark Hughes’ men, QPR remain fixed second from bottom. – Ji-Sung Park has continued to successfully integrate himself into the QPR midfield. He’s […]
Positives: winning, being unbeaten, Mignolet’s world class shot-stopping, Fletcher’s Fifth… Negatives: matched and menaced by Wigan for half the match, unable to build on a lead even against 10 men. Maybe we should acquire the wonderful gift identified by a certain Scottish bard: ‘to see oursel’s as others see us!’ Over to our resident Burns […]