Charlie Rhodes
Sports Editor
Steven Gerrard’s assist on Sunday shows he’s a true Liverpool fan
Charlie Rhodes • Dec 10 2021For those Liverpool fans upset at this weekend’s loss to Chelsea, I say ‘What are you upset about?’. The loss that Liverpool have just experienced, has ironically just ensured that…
Buffon: “No way I’d sign for Manchester City”
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 10 2023Gianluigi Buffon, goalkeeping prima donna, tells it like it as he sees it – Man City just not a big enough club. But in the end, will money talk…?
Buffon: “If I leave Juventus, I see myself in the Premiership”
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 7 2023Gianluigi “Gigi” Buffon was interviewed by Sky Sport Italia, and his remarks were published by the Milan sports daily, La Gazzetta dello Sport. Buffon discussed a potential transfer to England,…
Steve McClaren: from “wally with the brolly” to national champion
Charlie Rhodes • May 3 201021st November 2007 was the night that English football experienced one of its biggest ever wakeup call as a miserable dreary wet night at Wembley saw the English National Team…
Can Liverpool Do Us A Favour As ‘Squeaky Bum Time’ Goes Into Overload?
Charlie Rhodes • Feb 19 2011If someone said to me at the beginning of the season that we would have to rely on Liverpool to help us win the title and therefore overtake them as…
Liverpool Nightmare Ends In Title Dilemma
Charlie Rhodes • May 1 2010As a football fan, as opposed to a Man Utd fan, I have to confess to feeling some sympathy for the Liverpool faithful right now. As loyal, knowledgeable, good humoured…
History 101: Uruguay 1930
Charlie Rhodes • Aug 3 2022Today I realized that the most anticipated sporting event in the world is approaching in just one, lousy, unbearably long month. No, it’s not the Stanley Cup Finals. No, it’s…
Hats off to humble Hodgson
Charlie Rhodes • May 11 2010Fulham’s opponents on the 12th May will be Atletico Madrid. Aletico and Fulham are diametric opposites, the former loaded with individual talent but lacking organisation, the latter a unit greater than the sum of their parts. Who will triumph in Hamburg?
Soccerlens TV: Semifinals of the Champions League & the Europa League
Charlie Rhodes • May 4 2010Join celebrated football pundit, author, radio show host and DJ Andy Brassell every Monday on the Soccerlens Show. In Episode 26, Andy Brassell talks about the second legs of the…
Wayne Rooney Crowned Football Writer’s Player Of The Year
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 30 2010Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has picked up his second individual award of the season after being named the Football Writer’s Association (FWA) footballer of the year. The 24-year-old forward…
Castrol Creates The “Ultimate Football Player”
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 30 2010With the unmistakable hair of Carles Puyol, the eyes of Xavi, Lionel Messi’s dynamic left foot and the accuracy of Thierry Henry’s right, the explosive legs of Cristiano Ronaldo and the imposing height of Peter Crouch, the world’s ultimate performing football player was unveiled today in London.
Fulham prove that fairy-tales can come true
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 30 2010April 2008, The City of Manchester Stadium, and Fulham Football Club were 45 minutes away from being compounded to relegation from The Premier League as they trailed 2-0 to Manchester…
Liverpool Sign Charlton’s Jonjo Shelvey
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 29 2010It’s official! Liverpool have confirmed that Charlton’s 18-year-old starlet Jonjo Shelvey has passed a medical and agreed personal terms during a whirlwind visit to the club’s Melwood training complex this…
Mourinho: Beating Barcelona is ‘the best of all’
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 29 2010Jose Mourinho’s reaction at the final whistle after Internazionale conquered the reigning champions of Europe and ended a 38 year exodus from a European Cup final said it all. It…
A ‘Fantastic’ Fantasy Football Game
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 28 2010Soccerlens is now offering a new fantasy football game which gives you the chance to win money every weekend just by predicting the most successful players of the round. You…