Ahmed Bilal
Sports Editor
Sunderland want Wigan to get relegated next season
Ahmed Bilal • May 26 2009By some accounts, Sunderland should have been relegated this season. They didn’t, and with Ellis Short due to complete a full buy-out of the north-east club, the Black Cats are…
Watch the 2009 Champions League Final Live – in Rome
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 8 2023There’s a good chance you’ll be watching the 08-09 Champions League final live on TV, or watching it live online. But what if you could be sitting in the Stadio…
08-09 Champions League Semifinals Preview
Ahmed Bilal • May 5 2009This year’s Champions League semifinals have a familiar look to them – after all, three of these teams also featured in the English FA Cup semifinals earlier this month and…
The Experiments Are Over: Bayern Munich Sack Klinsmann
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 28 2009Bayern Munich’s season has been a difficult one (and not just in the league) and after losing at home to Schalke hastened the inevitable. Jürgen Klinsmann has been sacked after…
Ryan Giggs and Ashley Young win PFA Awards
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 28 2009Manchester United’s Ryan Giggs has won the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year award for the first time in his career, while Ashley Young takes the PFA Young Player…
Manchester United 5-2 Tottenham – All The Goals
Ahmed Bilal • Dec 1 2009The article below refers to a previous United-Tottenham game. To watch the latest United-Tottenham game, click here. Manchester United went into half time 2 goals down to Tottenham but a…
Can Roy Keane Take Ipswich To The Premier League?
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 24 2009He’s back. Yes, as most of you would have heard yesterday, Roy Keane is back in football management, taking over at Ipswich and given the remit of getting Ipswich promoted…
West Ham: the first recession casualty in the Premier League?
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 17 2009The Guardian reckons that West Ham will be taken over by the banks who have control of Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson’s various assets. Some people see this as the inevitable outcome of…
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…