Ahmed Bilal
Sports Editor
Daily News Roundup: 31 March 2007
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 22 2012Premiership weekend (finally!) and a quick look at what you should be reading right now:
Football’s wealth league puts Chelsea far behind Manchester United and Arsenal
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 22 2012Forbes 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.
Daily News Roundup: 30 March 2007
Ahmed Bilal • Nov 20 2011Today’s best news as the Premiership season gears for the final leg of the season:
Daily News Roundup: 29 March 2007
Ahmed Bilal • Dec 31 2021A look at the more interesting headlines this morning:
The English media and the fans are pathetic and deserve the worst
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 29 2012We’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…
Andorra 0-3 England (match videos), and a good thing we’re off till June
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 29 2012So 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 Video – Holland vs Andorra
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 22 2012Ruud 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.
Newcastle United 2007-2009 Kit – Home Shirt
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 29 2012The 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.
Newcastle reject Distin and Silvestre
Ahmed Bilal • Jan 9 2022Oh, 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…
Daily News Roundup: 27 March 2007
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 29 2012A roundup of the key football news this morning (27th March, 2007):
Klose and Bale linked (again) to Tottenham, Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 29 2012The Bale rumours have started again (god help us), as have the Klose rumours.
Arsenal watch: Adebayor vs Togo, Colorado Rapids owner to buy Arsenal shares, trouble with Gallas
Ahmed Bilal • Aug 5 2022A quick look at the Arsenal news today:
England watch: McClaren under viscious attack from the Sun
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 20 2012Before 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…
The State Of The “Beautiful” Game
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 7 2023Here’s an experiment – please read the following two paragraphs and tell me what you think:
Israel 0-0 England – out of balance and out of ideas
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 29 2012This 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…