Month: October 2008

I resolved to interview the hot new Salvadorian player Marco — he cost a lot of money, and the other reporters didn’t speak Spanish, but I could finesse it sketchy….

Despite the modernisation of the game and the soaring cost of attending, football is crawling with traditionalists. And why wouldn’t it be? We’re followers of a sport which can proudly…

It just seems that it cannot get any worse for Tottenham Hotspur after defeat at new boys Stoke City continued their worst-ever start to a season.

Melbourne Victory returned to action last night in the Hyundai A-League. Facing the Newcastle Jets in Newcastle. The Victory demolished the Jets in the 3rd round at home 5-0. The…

The article below refers to a previous Inter-Roma game. For the latest fixture, see this Inter Milan-Roma article. His last match in the starting eleven had been over six months…

For the fourth time in FIFA Futsal World Cup history, Brazil conquered the gold medal on home turf Sunday morning. It was a match which all pundits anticipated to be…

The world of football never ceases to provide gems of amusement to keep us all smiling. Footballers are not known for their intelligence, but Didier Drogba has once again proved…

Manchester United produced a sensational second half display to beat West Bromwich Albion 4-0 at Old Trafford. Wayne Rooney made it three goals in four days for club and country…

“When the club versus country dispute arose Small children were trampled in the exodus…” So sang Half Man Half Biscuit in 2005. Little has changed since then as the greed and…

On October, 15, MLS announced that Brightstar Corp. CEO Marcelo Cuare , Barcelona FC President Joan Laporta and a number of the Miami-Dade public officials made a formal bid to…

The English Premiership’s most costly bench-warmers have been revealed today in a new list published by football scouting website IMScouting.com. The list gives a “Cost per game” value for each…

The result read England 3, Belarus 1, with Steven Gerrard on the score sheet, and yet like night following day, the pundits were still assessing Capello’s success in dealing with…

Marcello Lippi was hailed as a hero after guiding Italy to their first world cup success in 24 years in 2006. He retired after his victorious run in Germany with…

The Newcastle story – from the euphoria of Mike Ashley buying the club to the suicide-dive in confidence of Keegan’s departure – is tragic. What happened post-Keegan is much worse,…

This time they want to buy Mathew Upson from West Ham, a rumour that dovetails nicely with West Ham’s recent austerity measures. Upson, if he stays fit, would be a…

Studs Up by Chris Toy

Serial sicknote Michael Johnson has turned to yoga in a bid to put his injury problems behind him. The Manchester City midfielder has never played more than ten consecutive games…

The England team is a strange animal. They are some of the best-paid professionals in a game pretty much every bloke in this part of the world has played at…

We didn’t have to wait too long for the boo boys to resurface at Wembley on Saturday. Yes, Ashley Cole’s backpass was lazy and I doubt he’d ever do that…

What is it about Manchester United number 7’s and the urge to own a fashion empire? And we don’t mean Eric Cantona! Cristiano Ronaldo’s second CR7 shop has opened in…

Dubai-based Zabeel Investments have made a bid for Charlton Athletic. The club confirmed in a statement that it will enter a period of due diligence with Zabeel Investments and should…

It’s just come to my notice that England Under-21s are actually a quite brilliant side! They haven’t lost for three years and in that time they’ve won 16 and drawn…

I may exude confidence in the betting arena, but when it comes to relationships I’m somewhat insecure. It takes me a long while to reach the stage where I feel…

Watch World Cup qualifiers live here. It’s great being an England fan. The despair and doom and gloom hanging over the team and indeed, over the entirety of English football,…

As Scotland slid down 10 places from 16th to 26th in the latest round of FIFA’s world rankings, is it possible that the country’s hysteria over the exploits at both…

There’s been a lot of talk about the omission of Michael Owen from the England squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Kazakhstan and Belarus but I think it’s…

Newcastle Fans United is a group of passionate Newcastle United fans who want to save Newcastle United by turning it into the first supporter-owned club in the Premier League. Like…