Month: September 2009

Adelaide United 1-0 Central Coast Mariners Hindmarsh Stadium, 10,262 Adelaide finally won a match, their first since round 1, and in great style in front of ten thousand fans at…

Dirk Kuyt’s first half effort handed Liverpool an unconvincing 1 – 0 win over battling Debrecen at Anfield. Boss Rafa Benitez, celebrating his 300th game in charge of Liverpool, named…

Soccerlens Podcast duo Adrian Clarke and Iain Spragg make ten big match predictions each and every Thursday and competing against one another throughout the season to discover once and for…

Andy Reid, Jason Roberts, David Dunn. What do they all have in common? No, it isn’t that at regular intervals, their respective managers have prefixed the mentioning of their names…

A celebration of a proper hitman!

Watch Manchester United v Manchester City live online here. Update: The competition was won by Joseph Brown-Pobee and Mark Dobson-Hill – congratulations to the winners (both of whom came through…

The upcoming Champions League tie between Inter and Barcelona provides an early season look as to who got the better deal in the transfer/swap of Eto’o and Ibrahimovic. This article analyses the footballing and financial implications of the transfers and the reasons behind the deal.

Just finished reading Dan Walker’s column on BBC and his account of his time spent at Eastlands during the Manchester City – Arsenal game. It’s a great article, but if…

The Premier League have introduced a home-grown player rule and a limit on squad sizes – both of which will come into effect from next season.

The 20 Premier League clubs have voted to introduce the measures which will see all teams limited to a squad of 25 of which eight players must be ‘home-grown’.

Emmanuel Adebayor evokes some interesting emotions wherever he goes. From his goal-scoring exploits for Arsenal to back-to-back interviews where he pledged allegiance to Arsenal before flirting with Barcelona, to his…

‘If in doubt, get it out!’ It’s a cry heard from many a parent and even coaches every weekend around the country at junior football games. It’s a cry that…

Am I the only one who seems to think everyone in the country is missing something? At Eastlands on Sunday a steward was struck by missiles thrown by Arsenal’s fans,…

The season so far has had its ups and downs for the Reds. A shock defeat to Burnley certainly wasn’t in the script, as the world looks on intently to…

While Liverpool were busy hammering out a contract with new sponsor Standard Chartered Bank, Park Si-Jung was busy wrapping up the finer points of his contract with Manchester United. Park…

The Sporting Index traders have priced up the outright Champions League win index and have installed the two big Spanish sides as the favourites. Spain The current champions, Barcelona, did…

Analysis of Milan’s current status and new manger. Not a single game won in pre season and a heavy early season defeat in the recent derby match. Commentary on the average age of the team, departure of Kaka as well as lack of signings including Gourcuff staying at Bordeaux. Berlusconi and his involvement both from a political and direct perspective plus the one major signing of the window (outside of Oddo and Oguchi Onyewu) Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.

English football clubs pocketed an average of 160 million euros ($234 million) each in prize money in the last six Champions League seasons, almost four times as much as the…

In a season which has already produced its fair share of talking points, the Premier League once more exploded into life after the two week recess, with a flurry of…

It’s one of the most tiresome cliches in football these days, yet one that most in the public eye can unilaterally agree on. Liverpool, they say, are a team of…

As I write this I’m watching Everton lose to Fulham at Craven Cottage and as a Liverpool fan it puts absolute delight in my heart to see Everton in the…

Despite conceding a goal in the first minute Manchester United rallied back through Giggs and Anderson (yes, Anderson!) to make it 2-1 at half-time. A second yellow to Paul Scholes…

Today’s City v Arsenal game confirmed what we already knew about certain players and, in context of the starts made by the two sides this season, gave us a fair…

England qualifications are not used to happen this way. Where was the last-gasp heroic goal, the nervous, stuttering qualification that went down to the wire, the sharpening of knives for…

After an international induced Premier League hiatus, England’s top tier returns with some standout games for spread punters to look forward to, featuring mouth-watering ties between North London and Manchester’s…

Without wishing to pre-empt the entire article, Jermaine Defoe is a very good football player, not a world-class football player. There is much empirical evidence to substantiate this, but what…

DC United is Major League Soccer’s most storied and most successful club. Since becoming a founder member of MLS in 1996, United have piled no fewer than twelve pieces of…

Join former Arsenal player Adrian Clarke and co-host Iain Spragg every Thursday on the new-look Soccerlens Podcast. These two highly experienced journalists love to debate all the hottest football topics…