Month: January 2009

When it suits him, Sir Alex Ferguson can be quite a student of the FA’s rules and regulations. The brief, and swiftly abandoned, dalliance with rule 11a may not have…

David Beckham, with his floppy hair and unassuming ways, was an instant success at Manchester United. A lifelong United fan, who had made the journey from the south with his…

My grandmother, lovely woman as she is, loves to watch ‘Waiting to Exhale.’ I’ve spent the last few weeks with her, and she watches it daily. Daily! Of all of…

We’re edging towards the final week of the January transfer window, and while you’ll likely hear more about a few new signings tomorrow, Sundays seem to be set aside for…

“We started this” boast The Daily Telegraph of the Fantasy Football phenomenon. And they are right, sort of. The Telegraph was the first national daily newspaper to run a Fantasy…

The official blurb of the Times Fantasy Football game reads as following: “11 players to pick, £100 million to spend and £100,000 to win — are you ready to prove…

Nothing like an FA Cup upset or two to add a little spice to your Saturday. Well, unless you’re on the receiving end of said upset, at home nonetheless.

After 3.3 million votes cast by 256,000 online users (slightly less than last year), the uefa.com Team of the Year 2008 was revealed earlier this week. As can usually be…

With action on the pitch dominating the sports pages today, there’s not a lot of transfer news and rumors to report on, but we still have a few tidbits for…

The Guardian has always fancied itself as a bit different from your usual rags when it comes to football. But in a sneaky way. It doesn’t so much avoid the…

A couple of noteworthy signings are coming through the newswire today, which makes me quite happy, and should make fans of certain clubs quite happy as well. Of course, if…

“Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger are the longest-serving managers, and that’s no coincidence. When they had difficult times – and both did – they were given time to get it…

The article below refers to a previous United-Tottenham game. To watch the latest United-Tottenham game, click here. Manchester United (Scholes 35′, Berbatov 36′) 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Pavlyuchenko 5′) Stadium: Old…

It’s starting to get down to crunch time for sides looking to add the necessary reinforcements to their squads with races for titles, European places, and survival in mind. Of…

So I guess the nickname of the ‘Worthless Cup’ certainly doesn’t fit the Carling Cup anymore. Both semifinals were entertaining and goal-filled, and each underdog made a valiant effort at…

Finally, the transfer deals are starting to come through in bunches. Am I just getting my hopes up that I’ll have a lot more of these to talk about over…

Football, in recent years, has hardly been the sanest of sports but even by recent standards Manchester City’s £100m bid for Kaka has seen the sport reach new levels of…

In case you hadn’t heard or read already, Manchester City have failed in their bid to sign Kaka from AC Milan. However, the January transfer window has not come to…

For someone as pathetically devoted to football literature, rumour, analysis and comment as myself, I should be loving this time of year. The time when the merest whisper of a…

Ricardo Kakà said no to Manchester City. Incredibly, and it is important to note that AC Milan accepted the transfer request for a little less than 130 million euros according…

If you thought that Manchester City bidding £108m for Kaka was silly money, then speculation linking them to a £15m move for Chelsea defender Alex should have you in stitches….

This match refers to an older game. Get the latest Liverpool-Everton game details here. Liverpool (Gerrard 68′) 1-1 Everton (Cahill 87′) Stadium: Anfield Stadium, England Competition: English Premier League Date:…

Even without much to report on in the Kaka-Manchester City situation (besides more people weighing in with opinions, talks of meetings between the Kaka camp and AC Milan, and possible…

It was a moment which summed up the night, hell, the season. Xavi Hernandez, surely the best midfield player on the planet at this moment in time, drifting effortlessly into…

There is a saying within comedy circles that “timing is everything”. However for us forlorn Bears there seems to nothing comical about events at our club. The feeling is now…

We learnt a lot about the recent attack on Neil Lennon during the court case this week. It turns out that he wasn’t jumped from behind after all. His attackers…

Let’s face it, Rangers fans couldn’t agree on the colour of s***e these days (no, it is not green, not in this context anyway). I’m also wondering if some of…