Month: August 2009

Watch live World Cup matches here. World Cup 2010 is just around the corner. As the last bunch of games for qualifications get played this year we face the possibility…

This Community Shield match is from a previous season. Watch the latest Community Shield match here and the latest Manchester United v Chelsea match here. Watch Manchester United v Chelsea…

How good of an investment is bringing in an highly-talented but oft-injured player for 20m? Rafa Benitez won’t find that out for a month or two, what with new signing…

Oh, Inverted World!  Besides being my favorite Shins Album, it’s how I’m feeling about Twitter.   Allow me to explain. I’m on twitter.  I use it to connect with friends, colleagues, and…

The dawn of the new premiership season is upon us and this year we might have something special on the cards. Of course the usual battle at the top will…

Not so long ago, David Beckham’s move to LA Galaxy would not even have been possible. It was facilitated by a change in Major League Soccer’s rules. Tim Leiweke, the…

What a difference a year makes. Against odds, FC Bordeaux dethroned Ligue 1’s 7 time consecutive champions Lyon to lift the Ligue 1 trophy. With 12 wins on the trot…

Soccerlens’ Football League preview reaches its climax ahead of the big kick-off this weekend, with The Championship playing a starring role. There’s plenty of big names battling it out for…

With Lyon finally knocked off their lofty perch by Laurent Blanc’s fantastically well drilled Bordeaux side last season, there is a feeling that this season’s Ligue Un title race might…

If the Premier League was an ice cream, it would lick itself. That’s a fact. The money swishing around the self-proclaimed “Greatest League on Earth” has given the English top…

It has been easy to laugh at Newcastle United in recent months, not that it makes it right of course. From Kevin Keegan’s typically sudden departure, the frankly ridiculous resurrection…

The official FIFA 2010 Trailer – with actual in-game footage, was recently released by EA Sports. FIFA 2010 is scheduled for release on 2 October 2009 – watch the Fifa…

An A for an A, a tooth for a tooth? Excuse the weak comment there, but it is early, so I won’t be at my cleverest for another few hours…

We’re now over halfway through Soccerlens’ full season preview ahead of the big League kickoff this weekend. Today we’re up to League 1, which contains fallen ex-Premier League teams Leeds,…

Where I come from, there tends to be two kinds of boys. Car boys and football boys. You can like both of course, but essentially you know at some point…

Once upon a time, Italian football was the centre of the universe. As recently as the turn of the decade, Serie A was the preferred destination for pretty much all…

You might not know it as you zip up your coat to brave the rain and the wind, but summer is here in England. And that means one thing. Cricket….

It will be hard for the Bundesliga to live up to expectations following last season’s dramatic, and truly eventful, feast. But already the biggest sides in Germany are preparing to…

Soccerlens continues its full season preview of the English Football League, as we move up from the Conference to League Two, which promises to be tighter than than Cheryl Cole’s…

A couple of more days and the new Bundesliga season will be in full swing. I waited too long this summer, already got used to last year’s shorter summer period…

Our friends over at Footbo have teamed up with Sony Ericsson (South Africa 2010 sponsors) to bring you a very lucrative offer: Write an article on any topic in football,…

Watch live World Cup matches here. With less than a year to go until the World Cup, England are sitting pretty in their World Cup qualification group. With qualification all…

All this week Soccerlens will be preparing for the big kick-off on August 8th with a full preview of the English leagues from Championship downwards. We start off with the…

From a far off view, the MLS comes off as a far inferior league.  A league that is not worthy to talk about if David Beckham is not involved.  The…

With the recent news of England’s successful Rugby World Cup bid, it would appear that another part of what is fast becoming known as ‘The Golden Decade of Sport’ has…

He’s obviously finished the brandy. When club president Vadym Rabynovych handed over Ukrainian Premier League side Arsenal Kyiv to the city’s mayor, Leonid Chernovetskyi, in January 2009, rumour had it…

The Sunday papers always make for interesting reading when it comes to transfer gossip, so this morning’s roundup is no exception. From the looks of Sunday’s gossip, we’re in store…