Month: September 2010

Week six of the Soccerlens Fantasy Football Game is over, with my Soccerlens All-Stars team finishing sixth in our 11 team league, just two points and three places short of…

EA Sports is doing a series of mini-episodes to promote its new game, FIFA11. The episodes are titled “We are 11” and features some of the biggest football fans around…

One of the coolest football advertisements hit international tv’s in the past weeks, promoting the newest version of Fifa11. We have a behind the scenes look at how this advertisement…

AS Roma must now certainly believe that they have turned a corner as Mirko Vucinic popped up in the dying embers of their Serie A clash with Internazionale on Saturday…

Manchester United travel to the Mestalla to take on Valencia in their second Group C match in the UEFA Champions League, and with their backs already against the wall, the…

There is an old saying, “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts,” which pinpoints Manchester United’s faulty defending. A lot of talk is being made about all…

Choosing between Cristiano Ronaldo and Megan Fox is less about attraction, more about your sexual orientation. But moving beyond who you’d like to shag (or rip Armani jeans off, as…

Chelsea will be hopeful that the Newcastle horrors in the Carling Cup will be forgotten by the time the Ligue 1 champions, Marseille, face them in the Champions League group stage game.

Can Chelsea and England manage without Frank Lampard? Well, the prosaic answer is that they’re going to have to until mid-October, after a minor setback (inflamed scar tissue if you…

Scott over at ROM recently got an interview with former Manchester United great Paddy Crerand. Amongst the many things discussed: The difference in how players were treated in Paddy’s time…

Liverpool forward Dirk Kuyt thinks that teammate Fernando Torres just needs time to heal from his current drop of form, and that Torres is happy in Anfield. Scoring only one…

There’s been plenty of chatter about the fiscal power of Chelsea FC and Manchester City in recent years, especially in the context of their recent clashes. The head-to-head record for…

As cries of “that’s why we’re champions” rung out at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday evening, the Fulham residents would undoubtedly have thought it was service as usual. How wrong they…

The footballing career of Tottenham defender Jonathan Woodgate is seemingly teetering over the proverbial precipice after the blindingly obvious has finally dawned on him, his manager Harry Redknapp and everybody…

A season ago Milos Krasic was a blonde haired Serbian winger playing in Russia, this season he has become the new Pavel Nedved for Juventus. While he has created chances…

Former England manager Kevin Keegan has added his five-penneth to the debate over the slump in Wayne Rooney‘s form, inferring that the Manchester United striker’s ‘confidence has been shot’ following…

Arsene Wenger is a man of many talents but modesty is not among them judging from his most recent outburst. In the aftermath of the announcement that Arsenal had made…

From his disastrous tragi-comedic cameo during the final hours of Cumbrian killer Raoul Moat‘s fatal stand-off with the Rothsbury police constabulary back in July to the car crash in Newcastle’s…

French veteran David Trezeguet rolled back the years as he bagged a brace for his new club Hercules as they claimed yet another monumental scalp. Sevilla are the latest casualties…

The agent of Luis Fabiano has stated the striker may look to depart from Sevilla if his current scenario doesn’t change. Brazillian international Fabiano has only played 17 minutes of…

Once more, it’s a tale of Manchester United shooting themselves in the foot. Such talent oozing from the walls of Old Trafford, but thus far this season, United have failed…

Bristol City have today announced the season-long loan of Tottenham Hotspur youngster Steven Caulker. The 19 year-old defender has been allowed to join the Championship side for the rest of…

In contrasting style to their previous two Barclays Premier League draws, Manchester United were forced to come-from-behind twice to secure a 2-2 draw with the Bolton Wanderers at the Reebok…

The editor of one of Liverpool’s foremost fansites KopTalk recently posted a dangerously incendiary article which overtly encourages irate supporters to ‘put the frightners’ on owners Tom Hicks and George…

Arsenal vs West Brom, a review of the effect of a defeat at home.

Accepting that there is no greater feeling in football than scoring a goal, it could be assumed that there is no worse feeling than having one chalked off. Just ask…

Watford impress again Last week I said it was time to stop treating the North Londoners like plucky underdogs; after the 3-1 win over Middlesborough, when do we start treating…