Month: April 2012
Liverpool, Chelsea, United, City and Arsenal all have points to prove this weekend
With live football on the telly for the next 6 days, it’s a good time to be a football fan. There’s plenty of mouth-watering action in tge Premier League for…
Read more »Most efficient Premier League clubs in the last three seasons (2009 to 2012)
Updated:Building on our previous post about the most efficient football clubs across Europe’s top four leagues this season, here we do an historical analysis of the Premier league and the…
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Most efficient football clubs in England, Spain, Italy and Germany in 2011/2012
Updated:The study of football, and its players, is perhaps best accomplished by evaluating efficiency. Of course there are many methods of such evaluation – ranging from weekly player ratings on…
Read more »London 2012: Should it be higher on a footballer’s priority list?
Updated:With an exciting end to the Premier League campaign, the Champions League last four and the upcoming Euro 2012 championships in Poland and Ukraine this summer, football fans can be…
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Football Manager Handheld for Android
Sports Interactive and SEGA have announced that Football Manager Handheld for Android will be released on Wednesday, April 11th. Football Manager Handheld, which is already a massive success on iPhone,…
Read more »Balotelli is City’s best chance of overtaking United for the title
Updated:Alan Hanson recently described Mario Balotelli as “a damaging distraction at the Etihad Stadium”, highlighting the growing perception that the Italian has become more hassle than he is worth to…
Read more »Euro 2012 Predictions: Winners, losers, overachievers and failures
Updated:With Euro 2012 just over two months away, the football community is preparing itself for what should be an exciting and close-run tournament in Ukraine and Poland. Holders Spain are…
Read more »Euro 2012: The big preview
Updated:Euro 2012 will see the continent’s leading nations go head-to-head for glory this summer in Ukraine and Poland. With the first game only just over two months away and domestic…
Read more »Euro 2012 in Ukraine and Poland – what to expect from the host venues
Updated:With Euro 2012 just round the corner, the footballing world will have their eyes on Ukraine and Poland this summer. With Europe’s leading nations competing in June and July, fans…
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The Championship Race for Promotion: Southampton, Reading and the Play-Off Candidates
Updated:With 6 games to go in the season, the race for promotion to the riches of the Premier League is hotting up. It is seemingly a three-horse race for the…
Read more »The rejuvenation of Chelsea and Torres under John Terry
When Roberto Di Matteo John Terry took over at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea were reportedly in disarray following the dismissal of Andre Villas-Boas. Castrol stats shows that the Italian Englishman has…
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Barcelona v Milan – Messi and Ibrahimovic hold the keys to success
Updated:Barcelona are clearly the better side going into the second leg of their Champions League quarter final against Milan – the last three games between the two teams this season…
Read more »Ten facts highlighting Liverpool’s excellent progress under Dalglish this season
Updated:Liverpool and Dalglish have received a lot of criticism this season, most of it surrounding their transfer policy and lack of points on the table but in truth, this is…
Read more »Arsenal can deliver title to United with win against City
Updated:For months it looked like Manchester United would need, at the very least, three points at the Etihad to stand any chance of overtaking Manchester City in the title race….
Read more »English Football Finances – 1981 to 2011
Updated:Football finance has been a hot topic for several years now, and we often cite the influx of Sky money, the formation of the Premier League, the modernisation of FIFA…
Read more »Liverpool declare independence, King Kenny to lead them to league title
Updated:Liverpool have declared their independence as a separate and sovereign nation, electing King Kenny as their first leader. Liverpool will also breakaway from the English Premier League with immediate effect…
Read more »Premier League referees declare war on Manchester United
Updated:Premier League referees – backed by Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester City – have launched a scathing attack on Manchester United, claiming that Sir Alex Ferguson was single-handedly responsible for the…
Read more »Tottenham announce that Harry Redknapp will be England manager
Updated:BREAKING NEWS: Today’s news is completely broken. Tottenham have taken the bold step of announcing that Harry Redknapp will be England manager for Euro 2012. The move comes as a…
Read more »Arsenal plan test-tube footballers to outsmart Chelsea, Tottenham and United
Updated:Plans leaked from Wenger’s mobile phone (which also contained some tasty photos that we’re never going to share – respect, Monsieur Wenger, respect) reveal Arsenal’s secret plans to outsmart their…
Read more »Tottenham plan stupendous Premier League title heist against Arsenal, United and co.
Updated:Secret plans recovered from incinerators next to White Hart Lane (allegedly used by Tottenham to destroy incriminating evidence against Harry Redknapp) have revealed an incredibly risky and left-field strategy for…
Read more »Chelsea appoint John Terry as player-manager as Terry promises ‘no slipups’ in Champions League
Updated:Roman Abramovich Chelsea have appointed John Terry as player manager with immediate effect, with the board highlighting his fantastic team talks and tactical input from the sidelines as the core…
Read more »Manchester City owners complete Barclays takeover, dock Manchester United 100 points
Updated:Manchester City’s owners completed their takeover of Barclays Bank this morning and immediately set about ringing some changes that will shake the very foundations of English football. Sheikh Mansour’s first…
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