Month: June 2008

All English Championship transfers going through in the summer of 2008 are on this page. For our transfer rumours column, see our transfer news section. This page is updated frequently,…

All French Ligue 1 transfers going through in the summer of 2008 are on this page. For our transfer news column, see our transfer rumours section. This page is updated…

All Spanish La Liga transfers going through in the summer of 2008 are on this page. For our transfer rumours column, see our transfer news section. This page is updated…

All German Bundesliga transfers going through in the summer of 2008 are on this page. For our transfer rumours column, see our transfer news section. This page is updated frequently,…

We all like a bit of a discussion and debate at the start of the week so I thought I’d take a look at some the talking points from the…

From the outside Chelsea’s efforts to find a new manager over the last few weeks appear to have been conducted in their usual clumsy fashion — with Peter Kenyon running…

I was enjoying lunch with a football agent friend of mine yesterday when the Sky Sports News ticker in the room revealed that Aston Villa had ‘given’ their shirt sponsorship…

English referees tend to be in the spotlight in international tournaments for the wrong reasons – Graham Poll with his 3 yellow cards in Germany 06 and now Howard Webb…

Images courtesy of Ian Blanchard and the English Football Association. In February 2008, I had the pleasure and privilege to interview Mr. Ian Blanchard, who became the Head of National…

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There are four ways you can find out which clubs have new kits for the 08/09 Premier League season. You can:

Netherlands 3-0 Italy. The Azzurri’s adventure at Euro 2008 could not have started worse. 3 goals like the 3 words which can be used to describe today’s match: offside, counter-attack,…

With professional goalkeepers complaining about the new EURO 2008 ball, I feel like, as a member of the greatest union in football, I need to shed some light on this…

More Euro 2008 statistics and data to feast on before and during the summer tournament. What’s included: players with the most games / goals at the Euros, the oldest and…

There are only three more days to go before Euro 2008 begins, and though it’s an abbreviated day in the news, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

“Set Pieces: for and against – ignore them at your peril”, so said former England manager Graham Taylor in a quote immortalised in the 1994 documentary – Do I Not…

John Stevanja has profiled the 16 teams going to Euro 2008, taken a good, hard look at their goalkeepers and come up with a list of the best keepers on…

Photo courtesy of Paul Blank, www.postproduktie.nl. On Monday, in a training accident in Austria, Fabio Cannavaro, the “Berlin Wall” and the great captain of the Italian National Team, saw his…

Fabio Capello took his 22-man England squad all the way to play a friendly international against Trinidad & Tobago on Sunday, but left four players wondering why they even bothered…

As seasons go, Ebbsfleet United’s 2007/08 can rank as a successful one. Their first appearance at Wembley resulted in a well-deserved victory over Torquay to take the FA Trophy. Liam…

Images courtesy of adidas. As is their custom, adidas designed a new football for Euro 2008. “Like +Teamgeistâ„¢, the official match ball of the 2006 FIFA World Cupâ„¢, the adidas…

Jack Warner is the President of Concacaf, Vice-President of FIFA, and one of the sketchiest businessmen you could encounter. His questionable ethics when it pertains to advancing his own self-interest…

Top-level international football is a young man’s game these days, but try telling that to this lot. I’ve scoured the 16 squads at Euro 2008 to find an experienced XI…

With a week to go before Euro 2008 starts, the 16 participants are busy with their final tune-ups before next weekend. Some teams look to be on firmer ground than…

Four years ago, Dan Leo told me about a new ranking system. At least, it was new to me. Like most of us, I had grown accustomed to the monthly…

President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter of FIFA. As a follow-up to my last article about the World Football Elo Ratings, Ahmed asked me to provide the top 50 teams from the…