Month: May 2011

Stop the presses! England to win the next World Cup! This could be our year! Well, not quite. I’m not talking about the men, I’m talking about the women. Hope…

First name on the Barcelona team sheet? Messi. Xavi. Sergio Busquets. As Sergio Busquets clutched the World Cup in his hands on the 11th July 2010, a footballing fast-track journey…

The FIFA Ethics Committee has opened proceedings against Jack Warner and Mohammed Bin Hammam over possible charges of bribery (official FIFA statement). The committee is due to meet (and most…

Selecting the best team of a decade can be a flawed approach – you miss the players who straddled the previous and current decades, you forget players who were great…

Over the past ten years, which clubs have had the most – or least – successful spells in the Premiership? Where does your club rank?

It is back to the drawing board for Cardiff City following their second successive failure in the Championship playoffs. The Bluebirds’ 3-0 aggregate defeat to Reading in last week’s semi-final…

I was recently interviewed for a Polish newspaper as part of a feature on FIFA ahead of the 1 June elections. The Q&A is below, but as part of the…

Spanish football journalist Guillem Balague broke the news on Revista de la Liga that Manchester United prospect David de Gea will be in the Old Trafford nets next season. The 20…

Portsmouth striker David Nugent is out-of-contract this summer and the one-time England international is keen to resolve his playing situation one way or another in the coming weeks. The former…

Castrol Football have used their year-round football stats to pick out the 11 best performers (in a 4-3-3 formation) in the English Premier League of the 2010/2011 season. Have a…

Carlo Ancelotti’s sacking by Chelsea prompts Zahi Sahli to ask two major questions concerning the future of Chelsea football club…

Mario Balotelli, the clown prince of football, has had a turbulent life with an abundance of misdemeanours that have left scars all over his undeniable talent The press condemn with…

After a little bit of a wait Bob Bradley released the U.S.’ Gold Cup roster and there were a few surprises included. With that in mind here are five or thoughts about the U.S. roster and how it affects their chances in the championship.

After delaying the release of the U.S. national team roster, head coach Bob Bradley finally came out with his list of the 23 men who will wear the red, white,…

What is wrong with Manchester and their away shirts? First Manchester United copying Chelsea’s away shirt and now this! To celebrate the FA Cup win Umbro has taken Manchester City…

The leaked images were spot on as Manchester United have officially revealed their Nike manufactured 2011/2012 home shirts. The simple red shirt with a white and black collar is brilliant….

In the Ryan-Giggs-Imogen-Thomas-super-injunction comedy (the 3D version comes out this summer, but you can see a trailer below), public outrage (generated by the press) at the enforced censorship has muddled…

Alex McLeish has kept his job at St. Andrew’s, despite Birmingham’s last-day relegation to the Championship, but has been told by the board that he must lead the side back…

After being knocked out in the last eight of the Champions League, Chelsea have finished in second place, Carlo Ancelotti has been fired and along with an ageing side; the…

Perhaps it is because Romanticism eludes any attempt at a concise definition that it has become a term so freely tossed into the melting pot of football criticism and punditry….

Manchester United and Barcelona meet at Wembley on Saturday to battle it out for the mantle of the best side in European club football. Dominant in their domestic leagues, sides…

Ipswich Town boss Paul Jewell is desperate to get his hands on a 20-goal-a-season striker to reignite the Blues’ Championship promotion hopes for 2011/12. The Suffolk side have toiled in…

This town is a rugby town. The red and white horizontal stripes of the Warriors have always been the biggest team in the Greater Manchester town of Wigan, dominating the…

While the Gold Cup has traditionally been a battle between Mexico and the United States the coming edition has the best chance to yield a different finalist in quite some time. Honduras, Costa Rica, Canada and Jamaica are all legitimate threats in the tournament and are capable of beating either favorite in a knockout stage game.

Let’s look at the group of challengers and see what they offer and how much of a threat they are for the cup

So it’s Manchester United versus Barcelona at Wembley on May 28th in a rerun of the 2009 CL final which saw Lionel Messi and Samuel Eto’o ensure the trophy went…

We’ve looked at the world’s highest paying football clubs, but who are the world’s highest earning footballers (including bonuses and sponsorship income)? We’ve put together a short video to highlight…

Not only are Barcelona the best club football team in Europe, they also possess the nucleus of the side that is the best international side in Europe and the world….