Month: September 2008

Come on down! These days everyone wants to be taken over by a billionaire and then immediately get linked with players worth more than the entire debt of Africa. But…

Every Bundesliga team has been jointly liable to run a youth academy since 2002, moreover, it is one of the eligibility criterias to obtain the club license. The annual operation…

There were many puzzled faces up and down the country after hearing Joey Barton’s lenient punishment following his brutal attack of his then City teammate, Ousmane Dabo. Essentially, he’s been…

With the Champions League just around the corner you now have the chance to flex your football muscles and show Alex Ferguson who the real boss is by competing in…

I can’t help but think that the Guardian’s Rob Smyth said it best the other day when he blamed overly-high expectations for England on two things: the mass-marketed ‘Golden Generation’…

Fabio Capello’s England squad selection for the World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Croatia asked more questions than it answered. The inclusion of Jimmy Bullard and omission of Michael Owen…

Watch England v Croatia live online. They say that history repeats itself. In England’s case, stupidity repeats itself, ad nauseam. You could drive yourself insane hypothesizing how England will line…

It infuriates me when people are judged on their appearance. Just because Rafa Benitez is a tubby mess, this does not give opposing supporters the right to abuse him. The…

With few weeks remaining in the transfer window, the media were eager to write off the current English and European Champions from retaining their Premiership crown. The logic behind it…

Dear Deidre, My name is Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson. That’s bad enough – it takes me fifteen minutes to sign a cheque. I am chairman of West Ham United. That’s even worse….

So, the transfer deadline (August 31) has passed and the football market is now closed. Closed? Not quite. Indeed, while transfers from one club to another will have to wait…

Compared to the lion that was the summer of 2009, when we saw Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic move to pastures anew for a combined fee of more than…

Few noticed last week when Juande Ramos called for a shortening of the transfer window, but the nuclear fallout from Monday’s race to the finish seems to support his argument….

The Premiership woke up this morning to a lot of excitement. Everton fans were celebrating breaking their transfer record, West Ham fans were incredulous that they had sold half their…

After Dimitar Berbatov’s strange menage-a-trois dalliance with Mark Hughes and Sir Alex Ferguson, and Man City gazumping Chelsea, yesterday’s third oddest deadline day transfer was that of John Akinde from…

There’s really only a couple (well, one to be specific) deals that many people followed on transfer deadline day, but while many looked to see if Dimitar Berbatov would sign…

As in the first two weekends of the Premier League season, there’s another two incidents that have come under the spotlight of the Right Result.

If you have never coached or managed a football team you will believe, like I did, that the fans feel the highs of victory and lows of defeat more than…