Month: February 2011

A day before the Carling Cup final, an Arsenal fan told me that Arsenal had requested permission for Cesc Fabregas to lift the Carling Cup trophy if Arsenal were to…

Chile’s U-20 Bryan Carrasco full-back used Ecuador forward Edson Montano’s hand to smack himself in the face to get a free kick. I believe the ploy was set up by…

Retired English striker and currently a sports broadcaster, Gary Lineker has had his ups and downs on the field of football – performance-wise and otherwise. I guess it is okay…

Blue may be the colour at Chelsea, but it’s also the place to be on a Friday evening if you’re blind or partially sighted and love playing football. Jonathan Tear…

Alex McLeish has set the foundations now to build something special at Birmingham City. In two years he has set his side up to comfortably survive in the Premier League,…

Tickets are now available for the UEFA Women’s Champions League Final. The Final will be held at Fulham FC’s Craven Cottage. The game will kick off at 20.00 GMT on…

Chelsea’s Asian Soccer Star is back again this year providing groundbreaking opportunities for budding young players from Asian communities. The program offers the chance for players to win a place…

Today’s Premier League Predictions are brought to you by Scoreboard – an interactive Premier League predictions TV show + game hosted on Facebook that’s set to take the football predictions…

The TV income issue in Spain has been well-documented as the rift began to develop between La Liga clubs. Simply put, Real Madrid and Barcelona had individual TV deals making…

With the Big Cup out of the way for a couple of weeks, it’s back to the Premier League, looking to answer the key questions around this year’s title race:…

Professional soccer is one of the most physically demanding sports in existence. Due to the length of a traditional soccer field and the length of the intervals of constant play,…

We love our football at Soccerlens, but we especially love our football viewing. In all honesty it was getting rather tedious having to make do with bog standard streams of…

Don’t miss a very special episode of the 3 Up Front podcast! In a show packed with laughs and emotion, host Adrian Clarke alongside Iain Spragg and Iain Macintosh tackle…

Don’t miss a very special episode of the 3 Up Front podcast! In a show packed with laughs and emotion, host Adrian Clarke alongside Iain Spragg and Iain Macintosh tackle…

“SCOREBOARD is a football predictions game and show on Facebook. It’s unique selling points are: Play against the pro pundits First interactive football show on Facebook First time a predictions…

Rumours that Qatar Holdings have had a 1.1b bid for Manchester United rejected and are preparing a 1.5b bid for the club have been doing the rounds lately, and it’s…

The new Paddy Power ad is an hilarious spoof of the recent trend in phone adverts and tv commercials in general to feature the most banal of storylines and plots…

With just three months left in this year’s Premier League season, the race for the last two Champions League spots is still tight. Manchester City, Tottenham and Chelsea are all…

Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli is currently undergoing a renaissance that is relating to those glorious days in the eighties when under the spell of Diego Maradona’s magic that glorified a small…

Arsenal vs Birmingham Carling Cup Final Wembley Stadium, London Sunday 27th February, 2011 15:00 BST By kick-off on Sunday afternoon, five years, 9 months and 6 days will have passed…

In the words of arguably football’s greatest, Diego Maradona once said; “He was the best striker we ever had here and were never going to see his like again –…

Last year’s Champions League finalists meet at the San Siro on Wednesday as Inter Milan and Bayern Munich contest the first leg of their round of 16 tie.

Bolstered by injuries to key personnel at Manchester United and their lacklustre away form, Marseille will be going all-out to beat the Red Devils in the first leg. The game is United’s first of four straight away matches, and they need to start winning these games if they are to succeed in Europe / win the league title this season.

“GGOAL is a tactical/strategic browser game, where different players can experience a real challenge on a soccer chessboard of sorts. The main feature of GGOAL is the appropriate management of…

In the buildup to the Champions League second round tie between Lyon and Real Madrid, Karim Benzema sat down to talk about his time at Lyon, the move to Real…

“GGOAL is a tactical/strategic browser game, where different players can experience a real challenge on a soccer chessboard of sorts. The main feature of GGOAL is the appropriate management of…

Mancini’s destroyers have a few aces up their collective sleeves…