Month: October 2010

Being the cultured Italian gentiluomo that he is, Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini is probably not averse to the odd shot of grappa in his cafe corretto, or a even…

Call it sensationalist horsesh*t if you wish, but splashed across the backpage of this morning’s Daily Mirror (which is, granted, not a newspaper that tends to let the facts stand…

At the highest levels of sport competition is intense and a tiny advantage can often times be the difference between winning and losing … not to mention the difference between…

The FIFA executive committee that votes on World Cup hosts uses an ‘exhaustive ballot’ system, whereby the candidate receiving the fewest votes in each round is eliminated until a single…

They’ve got the whole world in their hands…or at least the destination of the next two World Cups, which is still more valuable than 99% of any ‘voting’ privileges you…

At the youthful age of 26, Bastian Schweinsteiger has already a rather successful career. His current haul of five Bundesliga titles, five German Cups, two League Cups and a Champions…

It is often said that you can begin to make sense of the league table after 10 games. With nine games played we are more or less at that point, but are we any the wiser as to how the season will unfold?

With both starting elevens full of fringe players and youngsters, the match promised to be full of entertainment from the beginning and it did just that.  Newcastle came close first,…

Chelsea have made approximately 50 signings since the take-over of Roman Abramovich. About£470 million (and William Gallas) has been spent on these players – that averages out at just over £9 million (and one of Gallas’ hands) per player. Taking money spent, time consumed, bad memories and general disappointment into account, here is a list of the 10 worst signings of Abramovich’s ownership.

The League Cup is a joke While Premier League sides have for a while now been putting out reserve teams in this competition, it was interesting to see Swansea, Burnley…

Javier Hernandez has enjoyed a breathtaking start to his Manchester United career, but it is quite unrealistic for the supporters to think that he is going to maintain his dazzling…

Some footballing headlines are just so unfathomably inevitable that they may as well remain unreported, with the masses left to just assume that Occam was right about his razor and…

I didn’t manage to get on here for the Man City match report, but I’m sure you all got to watch it. What a game eh? Well the Man City…

A World Cup medal and a European Cup medal won by Nobby Stiles have been bought for more than £200,000 by Manchester United. The World Cup medal which Stiles won…

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has vowed to abandon his policy of blooding members of his ever-burgeoning creche during the early rounds of the Carling Cup, in lieu of making a…

Speaking to France Football, the founders of the award, Lionel Messi admitted that he does not expect to retain the award he won last year and he tips that one…

If one needs further confirmation that Dutch football was slipping down the echelons of European football, look no further than this weekend’s shocking upset–PSV Eindhoven beat the once-giant Feyenoord 10-0….

In the last week, the drive of Manchester United has been under intense scrutiny, but those questions should be put to bed following Sir Alex Ferguson’s next generation extending the…

Manchester United escaped further controversy as they secured safe passage to the Quarter-finals of the Carling Cup with a 3-2 win over the Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford. Javier Hernandez…

What a year it has been for Diego Milito. He finally achieved a big money move to one of Europe’s elite after impressive spells at Real Zaragoza and Genoa. Not…

Cardiff cruise to victory at Elland Road While Leeds may be going through a tough patch, Cardiff’s 4-0 win was still an impressive signal of intent. They have scored exactly…

The inaugural FIFA Ballon d’Or list has been announced with pretty much the household names of 2010 who we would have expected. There are however names who are in with…

There are many things that you could accuse Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho of being, and ‘inconspicuously subtle’ is definitely not one of them. With tonight’s Copa Del Rey tie…

“Paul” the Octopus is dead. If you, like me, were watching the World Cup with all the dread and disinterest of a Manchester United / England fan (there really was…

With their individual World Cup exploits taken into account, it should come as little surprise that England as a nation have absolutely no representation on this year’s Ballon d’Or shortlist,…

While Liverpool languish in the Premier League’s relegation zone, one division down the Championship has its own big hitter floundering in the bottom three. Scarlet stripped, based in a working…

Week nine of the Soccerlens Fantasy Football Game did not go as planned. My team finished joint fifth, well outside the top three and the prize money. Chelsea’s Ashley Cole…