Celtic v Barcelona – 07/08 Champions League 2nd Round Preview
A lot of people may feel that this is one of the more one-sided of the last-sixteen ties in this season’s Champions League but statistics suggest that Celtic could well…
Arsenal v AC Milan – 07/08 Champions League 2nd Round Preview
The Champions League will restart next week and one of the more tantalizing second round ties has got to be Italian giants AC Milan against English powerhouse Arsenal. It is…
La Liga Week 23: Real Madrid’s Magnificent Seven
Barcelona have been missing Samuel Eto’o. While the Cameroon striker has been scoring aplenty in Ghana, his teammates have only managed to find the net five times in seven games….
Lorrie Fair – From US to Chelsea To Help Women’s Football
Lorrie Fair has 123 caps for the full USA women’s national team. She is a 29 year-old midfielder, who at the age of 20 was the youngest member of the…
Cameroon 0-1 Egypt – Pharaoh Apothesis: Egypt Triumph at the African Cup of Nations
When the 2008 African Cup of Nations began on January 20, few would have put any serious amount of money on Egypt as tournament winners. Despite entering the competition as…
Andre Bikey Attacks Medic And Misses ACN 08 Final – Was He Provoked Or Did He Lose His Head?
We often read of football-related violence that occurs in the stands/terraces, between players, against referees, and out on the streets between rival hard-core factions. But here was an another unfortunate…
The Great Premier League Takeover
Derby County‘s inevitable relegation from the Premiership this May should be eased by the fact the Rams will start next season as one of the richest clubs in the Championship….
EuroBall – Play and Win Tickets to Euro 2008
Being that I spend much of my day at the computer, it’s nice to have something to distract me from an article every now and then. Not that I needed…
Dave Penney – Profile – Darlington Manager
In the first of his series on young English managers in the Football League, Hugo Steckelmacher seeks to demonstrate that Dave Penney is indeed worth top dollar. “One of my…
10 Reasons Why Barcelona Should Have Signed Diego Milito and not Thierry Henry
I was going to write a type of homage to Diego Milito during the transfer window as I anticipated that a move to a bigger club was imminent for the…
The Rich Get Richer
The news that the English Premier League is planning to go global has dominated the front and back pages of the English newspapers today. Hidden away, in some of the…
2008 African Cup of Nations Semifinals: Hosts fall short, Champions close in on repeat
After 30 matches, the 2008 African Cup of Nations final is set, and two of Africa’s premier footballing powers will square off on Sunday for the title. Hosts Ghana won’t…
A Lesson in Efficiency by the Egyptian Pharaohs: Ivory Coast Dominate but Concede Four (African Cup Semi-Finals)
In trying to find an answer to the eternal question “what makes a sports competition memorable?”, many have cited ‘beautiful plays’, ‘the enthusiasm of the fans’, and ‘spectacular goals’. What…
Idomitable Lions of Cameroon Defeat Ghana and Crush the Hopes of an Entire Nation (African Cup Semi-Finals)
Cameroon is the first finalist of the 2008 African Cup of nations. Burdened by pressure, injuries, and suspensions, the Black Stars of Ghana didn’t manage to pull yet another miracle…
2008 African Cup of Nations Semifinal Preview: Cameroon looking to crush Ghana’s hopes, Ivory Coast out for revenge
We’re down to the final four in the 2008 African Cup of Nations, and there aren’t any real surprises as to who the last four standing are. Ghana’s got one…
