Rooney’s solution to Manchester United’s problems
Alistair Maclean wrote a book about it – which incidentally was made into a movie in 1973. Kipling wrote...
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The future of Manchester United
The good times,it seems,went away with Sir Alex. United,in the five years since he’s gone,have been slowly disintegrating. First...
Mo Salah’s daughter is a chip off the old block
Mo Salah’s young daughter, Makka, toddled across the field with the ball and scored the finally final goal of...
Klopp
“I don’t think I would have believed it but I am not a very negative person.I would not have...
Pep did not get pipped at the post
The fat lady has sung.The curtain fell on a most dramatic EPL season with Manchester City retaining their title....
Neymar skill
Neymar picked up a 3 match ban for losing his cool in PSG’s penalty-shootout loss to Rennes in the...
The reign of Spain is over
The finalists of both Champion’s League and Europa League feature no Spanish team this time.This strange concatenation of events...
Spurs pull off an incredible comeback win
This seems to be the season of the impossible comeback. First the Avengers,against all odds,defeated Thanos. Then Liverpool came...
Liverpool pull off another “Istanbul”
Liverpool pulled off another comeback for the ages by scoring four goals against Barcelona yesterday. Facing a three goal...
Kompany stunner takes City back to the top
Klopp said that destiny would decide the title winner this season. Well destiny decreed that it should be Vincent...
Manchester United blow their last chance to get to the top four
Tottenham Spurs had done United a huge favour by losing 1- 0 to Bournemouth last wednesday.That game was a...
Liverpool go back into the lead
The good news is that they are two points ahead of City again.The bad news is that Salah got...
Zidane’s shopping list
Real Madrid have been reduced a mere shadow of their former selves and so Zidane has to go on...
Messi destroys Liverpool with an incredible free kick
Liverpool crumbled against Barcelona. They were already 2 – 0 down when Messi stepped up to take a free...
Ajax keep the dream alive
When the Champions League season 2018-19 kicked off, Ajax were already written off. They were not expected to emerge...
Real Madrid plumb the depths
Zidane’s head is bowed in defeat. Barcelona celebrated winning the title with three games to spare and Real Madrid,in...
De Gea completes a hat trick of howlers
David de Gea,winner of four Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year awards in the past five years and...
Barcelona take 26th La Liga Title
Barcelona beat Levante 1- 0 to claim their 26th La Liga title.Messi came in as a second half sub...
Liverpool take the lead again
Huddersfield were obliterated 5 -0 and Liverpool are back in pole position. For now they remain in contention for...
City continue their inexorable march towards the title
Manchester United, in their illustrious history,have won the title 20 times,and Liverpool have not done too badly either,winning it...
Ronaldo wins a historic treble
Ronaldo became the first person in all of footballing history to be part of the title winning team in...
Manchester United flop on easter sunday
Everton inflicted a 4 – 0 humiliation on United on Easter Sunday. At the end of tha game Manchester...
Ronaldo done in by Toy Story
Ronaldo had given Juventus the lead after 28 minutes with a record 126th goal in the competition, his ninth...
Spurs end City’s quadruple dreams
In a dramatic VAR dominated quarterfinal Spurs overcame Manchester City and eliminated them from the Champion’s League. Within the...
Messi too much for United
De Gea’s body language in that photograph says it all.Head down in despair. Messi had scored two goals before...
Salah scores wondergoal
Liverpool did not slip this time. They beat Chelsea 2- 0 and Salah scored the goal of the season...
125 Champion’s League Goals
Predator Ronaldo notched up Champion’s League goal number 125.It takes him 17 clear of Messi. Statistics update on their...
The balance tilts in Liverpool’s favour
The Champion’s League quarter finals saw Manchester City unexpectedly losing to Spurs in the first leg by a solitary...
Hazard does a Messi
Hazard against West Ham yesterday – dodging and jinking and swerving and shimmying – leaving a horde of defenders...
Rooney sees red and DC lose big
It’s not the first time that the poor man has had to realise that the rush of blood to...
Salah ends goal drought in style
Salah tore way from the pack,and ran all the way from his own half to score against Southampton.It was,finally,a...
Sterling buys 550 FA Cup Semifinal tickets for his old school
Sterling bought 550 tickets for pupils at his old school to attend City’s FA Cup semi-final tie against Brighton...
Barcelona dazzle,Real Madrid fizzle
Real Madrid’s brief revival under Zidane fizzled out with a 2-1 defeat to Valencia which now leaves them in...
Rooney bends it like Beckham
Rooney scored with a curling free kick taken from near the corner line. DC United,after a 2- 1 win...
Solskjaer Setback
United went down 2- 1 to Wolverhampton yesterday and now the fourth place finish looks to be in jeopardy....
Liverpool are hanging in there
Manchester City are just incredible and look impossible to beat.They simply blew Fulham away in their last game. But...
Messi scores a Paneka free kick
Messi creates history again by creating a new kind of free kick. Antonin Paneka created history in 1976 when...
Messi misses the good old days
A pensive Messi,musing on the good old days gone by,said that Ronaldo’s absence from the La Liga was something...
Solskjaer gets the job
That run of 14 wins and two draws in 19 games has ensured that Solskjaer gets to keep the...
Germany beat Holland in their opening game
The German national team have not had much to be glad about since their dismal exit from the World...
Sterling Shines
The Czech Republic got mauled 5 – 0 by the three lions and Sterling scored a hat trick. Dreams...
Courtois drops a clanger
About 2 minutes and 4 seconds into the video of Belgium’s Euro 2020 qualifier against Russia you will see...
Portugal make an inauspicious start
Ronaldo and the defending champs did not get off to a blazingly good start to their Euro 2020 campaign.They,despite...
Kazakhstan give Scotland a 3 – 0 drubbing
Kazakhstan are about a million places below Scotland in the Fifa rankings ( 67 actually) and so for the...
Holland make a bright start to Euro 2020
Qualifiers for Euro 2020 have gotten underway and Holland have put their best feet forward once again.Having failed to...
Rooney scores his first MLS hat trick
While Messi was scoring hat tricks like only Messi can do,the ageing warhorse Rooney reminded everyone that he wasn’t...
Messi adds another hat trick to his tally
Real Betis were at the receiving end of a 4 -1 beating during which Messi scored his 33rd La...
Liverpool regain pole position for now
The game against Fulham should have been a walk in the park after that magnificent win over Bayern Munich...
Swansea City almost knock Manchester City out of the FA Cup
Swansea City would have been through if their stadium had VAR.Aguero came off the bench to score two goals...
United eliminated from FA Cup by Wolverhampton
United’s familiar frailties manifested themselves again.They played very poorly,without intent or imagination and thus got themselves knocked out of...
Liverpool’s CL win highlights the decline of German Football
Liverpool totally outplayed Bayern and made them look like dummies in front of their home crowd.The last time there...
David Beckham gets pranked
David Beckham was honored by LA Galaxy for the back-to-back championships won in 2011 and 2012 during his six...
Ronaldo scores a Champion’s League hat trick
Just when pundits were thinking of writing him off as a has been Ronaldo has pulled a Champion’s League...