Ahmed Bilal
Sports Editor
SquadGod Week 2: Suck it up, it’ll get better
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 10 2023Welcome to another edition of our Soccerlens Fantasy Football news update, and the headline just about says it all – if you’re sucking (or more appropriately, if your team is…
England 1-2 Germany – 1 step forward and 2 steps back
Ahmed Bilal • Jun 26 2010Get all the updates on the latest England-Germany match here. If England continue their progress at this rate, we will lose in Russia and crash out of the Euro 2008…
NUFCBlog.com launches new Newcastle United Forum
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 28 2012Congratulations to Newcastle United blogger (and fast turning into an icon) Ed Harrison – this morning nufcblog.com passed 1 million hits, and today it celebrates it’s 4-month anniversary. In recognition…
No reason for Ashley to sell Newcastle…yet
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 28 2012Yesterday there were strong rumours coming out of Iceland that Mike Ashley was ready to make a profit on his investment in Newcastle United and wanted to sell the club…
Why are people so afraid of instant video replays in football?
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 5 2023The move to keep Rob Styles and Ian Gosling (the assistant referee who failed to spot Fulham’s equalizer against Middlesbrough) out of the next weekend’s fixtures is a damage-limitation exercise…
Should Manchester United sign Anelka?
Ahmed Bilal • Jan 8 2022In the Manchester United forum there’s a hot debate going on about whether Sir Alex Ferguson should bring Nicolas Anelka to Manchester United or not.
Should Arsenal dump Lehmann?
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 23 2012Personally, I think he’s past his prime – he had the whole of last season to ‘live up’ to his heroics from the 2005/2006 season (when Arsenal went to the…
Premiership Preview: Tottenham, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Manchester United and Liverpool to win, West Ham and Chelsea to lose
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 28 2012Remember the time when you just couldn’t wait for football to come back? Depending on your allegiances, that feeling has either faded fast or reached an all-time high – less…
Beckham’s goal, Manchester United’s All-time XI and Ferguson blames Ronaldo
Ahmed Bilal • Jan 6 2022A few news items to go through quickly this morning.
List of Premiership players to miss matches during African Cup of Nations
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 23 2012SL reader and forum member XerxesK was kind enough to post the following list in the forum – see if you can add to it and / or find flaws…
Opening Weekend: Guts, Goals and Injuries
Ahmed Bilal • Dec 20 2021Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose… It was a topsy-turvy weekend (and I’m not even going to talk about the fantasy football aspect of it – damn you…
Sunderland rock the Premiership as Tottenham bottle it, again
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 19 2012Oh hell yes. OH. HELL. YEA! Take that. And that. And that.
Wenger: Arsenal have been dealt an unfair hand
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 28 2012The headline is a paraphrasing of what Wenger has said – but you already knew that, right? What is Arsene Wenger on about?
Newcastle United and West Ham, Dyer and Solano
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 28 2012The Sun (the patron of our ‘shit list’ page) claims that Nobby Solano, ever the family man, misses his wife and kids and wants to move to down South –…
Carlos Tevez – 07/08 Manchester United Shirt
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 28 2012Our friends over at Subside Sports have been lightening quick in getting the new Carlos Tevez shirt ready for us. Thanks Simon.