Month: June 2006

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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?”

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…

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…

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…

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…

(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…

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…

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…

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…

In case you’ve dropped by here before, you’ll notice that Soccerlens now sports a brand spanking new wordpress theme. All credits to Matt Mueller for putting this together inside ……

Another big organisation tries its best to find a sensible solution to a rampant problem, and once again they seem to have come up short and out of bloody ideas….

Football transfer fees are always the subject of heated debate. Is a club spending too much? Are they spending too little? Is any player really worth more than £100 million?…

A quick lesson in blind journalism for all you folks: Heard about Jon Obi Mikel? You know, that kid Chelsea just signed for 16 mil (12 mil of which is…

Read the England vs Jamaica Match Report When England take on Jamaica at Old Trafford today, Eriksson has one last shot at tinkering with the formations and finding out what…

Arsenal fans, being arsenal fans, are blaming the recent BBC NewsNight investigation into the Arsenal-Beveren relationship as being part of a conspiracy to get David Dein voted off the FA…