Month: March 2007

Premiership weekend (finally!) and a quick look at what you should be reading right now:

Forbes business magazine has placed Manchester United at the top of the wealthy clubs pile (740m), with Arsenal (466m) in 3rd spot and Chelsea (274m) way back in 8th place.

Today’s best news as the Premiership season gears for the final leg of the season:

A look at the more interesting headlines this morning:

We’ve spent so long criticising and whinging about the England team and the players that we now take it as our god-given right to attack the national team at every…

So yes, England beat Andorra by 3 goals (should we be ashamed?), and now we can watch the rest of the Premiership season in peace without fretting over bad England…

Ruud van Nistelrooy has had his share of taunting by opposition players for missing penalties. He rarely gets the chance to avenge it in the same match though.

The new Newcastle United 2007/2009 home kit was out in March – it’s an inverted version of the 07 strip, with the badge in the center and less stripes.

Oh, this is absolutely priceless. To have Glenn Roeder come out and categorically reject transfer rumors that were linking Newcastle to Manchester City’s Sylvain Distin and Manchester United’s Mikael Silvestre…

A roundup of the key football news this morning (27th March, 2007):

The Bale rumours have started again (god help us), as have the Klose rumours.

A quick look at the Arsenal news today:

Before the Israel game, Pini Zahavi, super-agent, predicted that the English media would set upon Steven McClaren like a pack of wolves if England failed to beat Israel. He may…

Here’s an experiment – please read the following two paragraphs and tell me what you think:

This post is about the Israel qualifier in March 2007 – for the recent qualifying game (September 2007), see this article: England vs Israel, 8th Sep 07, Wembley. Yesterday, I…

The match itself was quite pedestrian (apart from THAT goal by Shevchenko, who’s on a roll), so I’ll skip the boring match report (you can hit ChelseaBlog or BBC for…

Andriy Shevchenko is back in the business of scoring goals – and like Rooney, it is perfect timing for the Ukrainian hitman to start firing.

Your team is a goal down, 30 minutes to go in the second half and you’re watching your opposite number take a free kick from deep inside his own half.

As I write this, Chelsea are 2-0 up at Stamford Bridge, firmly placed to reduce the gap between themselves and Manchester United back to 6 points (and maybe improve their…

The Valencia-Inter brawl has led to severe punishments for the parties involved.

These two marvelous midfield Maestros would waltz their way into any team in Europe, but are both inconsistent on the international scene. Following on from Ed Harrison’s argument that these…

For a match report and all other updates, please see the main Man Utd v Europe XI page. Videos included here:

After Liverpool’s amazing victory over AC Milan in the 2005 champions league final, may disgruntled fans of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal accused Liverpool of being lucky and undeserving winners….

While Alex Ferguson has not officially announced the players lining up to face Europe XI on tuesday night, here’s the expected list of players based on recent injuries to several…

Gennaro Gattuso and Andrea Pirlo – both players who have been repeatedly linked with Manchester United – will be strutting their stuff on the Old Trafford pitch on Tuesday night…

The quarter-final (and semi-final) draws for the 2006/2007 Champions League have been announced:

I hate to use such headlines, but it’s even worse when it’s true.