Articles By Ahmed Bilal (1009)

Chelsea Should Have Bought Tevez Instead Of Shevchenko

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 20 2012

The official storyline behind Chelsea buying Shevchenko has been that Mourinho wanted a player with Champions League experience – a striker who was proven on the European stage and would…

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FIFA Clears Arsenal After Beveren Probe

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 20 2012

The Arsenal-Beveren issue raised so spectacularly by BBC Newsnight is finally laid to rest as FIFA clears Arsenal of any breach of club ownership rules over their dealings with Belgian…

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Fabio Aurelio To Move To Liverpool

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 20 2012

Rafa Benitez has been tracking Aurelio for quite some time, and with the left-back’s contract expiring on Friday, he is expected to travel to Anfield over the weekend to sign…

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Germany vs Argentina – Quarter Final Preview

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Jul 2 2010

Read the latest Argentina v Germany preview. The hosts vs the most ‘complete’ team in the tournament. At this stage it’s hard to chose between sides, but a lot of…

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Arsenal Fans: Henry was fouled. World: No he wasn’t.

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 20 2012

It’s really cute how Arsenal fans are saying that we should ‘move on’ and ‘stop living in the past’. These be the same fans who took their frustrations out on…

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Henry: I’m not a diver. World: Yeah right.

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 20 2012

Seeing the Arsenal captain, legend and top goalscorer Thierry Henry dive last night after he ‘ran into Puyol’ was a scene right out of Hollywood mystery movies – where the…

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Going Lampard?

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Apr 11 2011

A shoutout to SoccerBlog, who have added a very useful term to our football lexicon: Lampard – As used in this sentence: “Have you gone Lampard on us?”

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Argentina vs Mexico Match Preview

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Jun 26 2010

Get all updates for the latest Argentina v Mexico match here. Argentina have a foot already in the quarter-finals as the square up against goal-leaking Mexico at Leipzig tonight. If…

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Mad About Bad Referees? Blame Fifa, not Graham Poll

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 20 2012

After that Australia-Croatia match, British referee Graham Poll came under scathing criticism for showing Josip Simunic 3 yellow cards before showing him a red one (with the third one coming…

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Manchester United in Transfer Wilderness

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  May 6 2012

Yet another club strengthen their squad… (Bellamy joins Liverpool) Admittedly, Liverpool have suffered, selling one striker and losing another to a terrible injury, but the sight of 3 out of…

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Is Eriksson the worst England manager of all time?

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 20 2012

Myles Palmer from Arsenal News Review puts England’s performance last night into perspective: You had to feel sorry for the England fans over in Cologne on a night when de-mob…

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Transfer News During The World Cup

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 20 2012

(Updated on 19th June) The search for for United’s summer recruits continues, with news now linking Javier Macherano (Corinthians), Fernando Torres (Atletico Madrid) and Dida (AC Milan) to the Red…

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Interesting Striker Stats (World Cup 2006)

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Jun 9 2009

You can see the top ten goal scorers in the World Cup 2006 here, but what if you wanted to know who had the most shots on goal? What about…

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Day 4 Review – Finally, Some Fireworks

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 29 2012

Where Argentina vs Ivory Coast on Day Two was perhaps the best match of the tournament so far, Day Four saw one of the best comebacks in recent World Cup…

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Ljunberg vs Mellberg – scenes from the Swedish dressing room

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Apr 11 2023

It was mentioned in the media earlier that after the Sweden vs Trinidad & Tobago game (0-0), Freddy Ljunberg and Olof Mellberg came close to blows on a dispute on…

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