Ahmed Bilal
Sports Editor
Who Wants It More – Arsenal, Barcelona, Chelsea or Manchester United?
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 17 2009Barcelona and Manchester United have already won the Champions League in recent years. Arsenal and Chelsea are recent losing finalists (to the opposite teams – there’s a nice symmetry there)….
Premier League makes a play for global domination
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 17 2009The Guardian (so I only read them and the BBC, shoot me) have a report saying that Richard Scudamore and Peter Kenyon are tacitly backing Mohamed Bin Hammam’s bid for…
Alex Ferguson is a naughty old man
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 17 2009After United beat Porto, I reckoned that Fergie would lay off Liverpool till at least next week, and focus on Everton in the meantime. It seems that the old man…
WPS Kicks Off In Style
Ahmed Bilal • Jan 9 2022The biggest footballing story of the weekend wasn’t Scotland’s defeat against Holland, it wasn’t Northern Ireland’s win against Poland, it wasn’t Spain and Holland getting close to World Cup qualification,…
Ronaldinho’s Hands T-Shirt
Ahmed Bilal • Dec 12 2021Ronaldinho’s famous celebration where he folds all his fingers except his little fingers and his thumbs and raises his hands in the air. Now you can get a t-shirt with…
Who Will Host World Cups 2018 and 2022?
Ahmed Bilal • Mar 28 200911 candidates have made official bids to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022. Nine of the candiates are interested in staging the tournament in either 2018 or 2022,…
OFF! Fans And Players Clash, Referee Sends Off An Entire Team In Argentina
Ahmed Bilal • Jan 10 2022Last week we saw an angry fan shoot a player dead. This week we hear of the entire away team (including the subs bench) being red carded by the referee…
Funny Football T-Shirts
Ahmed Bilal • Dec 31 2021Our friends over at Subsidesports.com have a very interesting section where they put some really cool football related t-shirts. I’ve got one off them and trust me, it is a…
England’s squad for Slovakia and Ukraine
Ahmed Bilal • Mar 23 2009England are in pole position to qualify from Group Six for the 2010 World Cup and they’ll move one step closer to that target when they beat Ukraine at Wembley…
Classic Football Shirts – 1950s to 1980s
Ahmed Bilal • Dec 12 2021You’ll find all sorts of vintage football shirts here – from vintage 1970s shirts to rare retro 1950s football kits. Go through our list of classic football shirts below –…
Soccerlens Evolution T-Shirt
Ahmed Bilal • Mar 22 2009The Soccerlens Evolution t-shirt is a remake of the popular ‘evolution’ shirt. It’s a classic black t-shirt with the ‘evolution’ graphic (tracing humanity’s evolution from primitive roots to the modern…
Advantage Liverpool as Manchester United see red and Chelsea lose to Tottenham
Ahmed Bilal • Mar 22 2009Liverpool beat Aston Villa 5-0 – dubious penalties or not, it’s a well-deserved three points and on form, the title’s Liverpool’s to lose. Manchester United have serious, serious work to…
Premier League Predictions: 21-22 March 2009
Ahmed Bilal • Nov 8 2021The big story in the buildup to this weekend’s Premier League fixtures has been that the title race is back on, what with Liverpool and Chelsea in good form and…
Football Fan Shoots Player Dead
Ahmed Bilal • Mar 18 2009An Iraqi football fan shot dead a player of the opposing team as he tried to score an equalizing goal in the final minutes of a match last Saturday. The…
Why does the press protect Fabregas?
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 22 2012Update: Excellent piece on Arseblog over the Fabregas-spitting incident. Read here. The tabloids have been depressingly unimaginative this morning. They lacked perspective (no mention of Fabregas’ past misdemeanours and no…