Month: February 2008

When Jonathan Woodgate recently departed Middlesbrough for Tottenham in an £8million deal he could not help himself in having a pop, not only at his former boss Gareth Southgate, but…

Image courtesy of the FAI. Giovanni Trapattoni, who will be 69 years of age in March, was named on 13 February 2008 as the new manager of the Republic of…

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In Hugo Steckelmacher’s second of his profiles on great English managing prospects in the Football League, he looks at the playing and managerial career of Middlesbrough great Tony Mowbray. When…

Images courtesy of Martin Little and Tanked Up Underwater Imaging. A few months ago, I was searching the Web for a site that listed football web sites by countries. Lo…

Update – Second Leg Preview: Internazionale v Liverpool – Reds and Nerazurri prepare to paint San Siro with the colours of Europe. Update – First Leg Match Reports: ‘Inter have…

Four years ago, FC Porto won their second European Cup title by defeating Monaco 3-0 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, where ‘The Special One’ cemented his place as one of Europe’s top…

A lot of people may feel that this is one of the more one-sided of the last-sixteen ties in this season’s Champions League but statistics suggest that Celtic could well…

The Champions League will restart next week and one of the more tantalizing second round ties has got to be Italian giants AC Milan against English powerhouse Arsenal. It is…

Barcelona have been missing Samuel Eto’o. While the Cameroon striker has been scoring aplenty in Ghana, his teammates have only managed to find the net five times in seven games….

Lorrie Fair has 123 caps for the full USA women’s national team. She is a 29 year-old midfielder, who at the age of 20 was the youngest member of the…

Since news about Premier League’s proposal to play an extra round of matches from January 2011 leaked (a good thing – it’s better to start this debate early and give…

When the 2008 African Cup of Nations began on January 20, few would have put any serious amount of money on Egypt as tournament winners. Despite entering the competition as…

We often read of football-related violence that occurs in the stands/terraces, between players, against referees, and out on the streets between rival hard-core factions. But here was an another unfortunate…

Derby County‘s inevitable relegation from the Premiership this May should be eased by the fact the Rams will start next season as one of the richest clubs in the Championship….

Being that I spend much of my day at the computer, it’s nice to have something to distract me from an article every now and then. Not that I needed…

Nike’s Mercurial Vapor IV shoes are supposed to be one of the lightest pairs of football boots ever made – but do they really help players run faster? Last month,…

In the first of his series on young English managers in the Football League, Hugo Steckelmacher seeks to demonstrate that Dave Penney is indeed worth top dollar. “One of my…

I was going to write a type of homage to Diego Milito during the transfer window as I anticipated that a move to a bigger club was imminent for the…

If you’re a Manchester United fan, you need no convincing (although the following water-tight argument (and this one) is yours to beat your friends over their heads). If you hate…

The news that the English Premier League is planning to go global has dominated the front and back pages of the English newspapers today. Hidden away, in some of the…

I am no stranger to a lazy stereotype. I’m half-Irish and I’m married to a Scot, so some people believe we stay at home all day smoking crack and peeling…

After 30 matches, the 2008 African Cup of Nations final is set, and two of Africa’s premier footballing powers will square off on Sunday for the title. Hosts Ghana won’t…

In trying to find an answer to the eternal question “what makes a sports competition memorable?”, many have cited ‘beautiful plays’, ‘the enthusiasm of the fans’, and ‘spectacular goals’. What…

Cameroon is the first finalist of the 2008 African Cup of nations. Burdened by pressure, injuries, and suspensions, the Black Stars of Ghana didn’t manage to pull yet another miracle…

Do you support this move or are you against it? Make your voice heard in our poll at the end of this article. The English Premier League clubs are considering…

We’re down to the final four in the 2008 African Cup of Nations, and there aren’t any real surprises as to who the last four standing are. Ghana’s got one…