AC Milan moves to Athens as Man United crash and burn
AC Milan 3 Man Utd 0. Milan wins on aggregate, 5-3. If Man Utd is the best England has...
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CL Semifinals, return leg: Manchester Utd vs AC Milan
Cristiano Ronaldo vs Kaka. Round 2. If the Liverpool vs Chelsea match was as a number of commentators put...
Mourinho is orchestrating his own exit
The Special One is now in the midst of lobbing verbal Molotov cocktails at Sir Alex and his prodigal...
Video: Penalty kicks: Liverpool 4 Chelsea 1
liverpool-chelsea-tir aux butsUploaded by macfly67 “They just can’t keep their hands off it” the QOTD. Reina was magnificent in...
Video: Liverpool 1 Chelsea 0 (CL Semis, return leg)
Liverpool 1 – 0 Chelsea – AggerUploaded by FootballHeaven Agger’s sweetly struck first timer leaves Cech stranded.
Liverpool storm through to the CL finals
Liverpool wins! They are through to the CL final over Chelsea. The match came down to PKs and Liverpool...
Video: PSV Eindhoven are the Eredivisie champions in a dramatic finish
PSV Eindhoven capture their third consecutive Eredivisie title beating Vitesse 5-1 through Jefferson Farfan and veteran Philip Cocu. It...
Young Gunners in Birmingham and Sunderland promotion
With Derby beaten 0-2 by Crystal Palace, Birmingham City and Sunderland made it back to the Premiership. Arsenal fans...
CL return leg: Liverpool vs Chelsea
Peter Crouch meets Michael Essien Liverpool should throw caution to the winds. They need to get adventurous. Chelsea is...
Bollywood meets the Premiership
The Premiership is now a Bollywood destination. Or Stamford Bridge is rather than the Reebok. On June 15, 2007,...
The case for salary restrictions in the Premiership
I was struck by the fact, watching the NFL draft which concluded recently, this is a league that has...
Sam Allardyce resigns to big questions
Big Sam Allardyce whose pugnacious style of coaching revitalized Bolton announced his resignation in a shocker. The resignation is...
Sir Alex and Jose Mourinho draw out their knives
‘ The circumstances are difficult for us with the new football rules that we have to face. It is...
Brian Glanville remembers Alan Ball
” For all his long, successful career as player and manager with Arsenal, Everton, Blackpool and Southampton, as manager...
Juan Pablo Angel will have more impact than Becks
It’s just too bad that the NY Red Bulls can’t just drink Red Bull and finish on top of...
Kroenke’s buyout of Arsenal perceived as hostile
Stan Kroenke moves to take over Arsenal. This is huge. David Dein has resigned and there is speculation that...
In tribute: Alan Ball, 1945- 2007
1966 World Cup final. Alan Ball, Everton and Arsenal midfielder, was the scrappy, motoring midfielder with his socks down...
Who is rooting for a Liverpool vs Milan rematch?
I am. With memories of the most fascinating and enthralling final played in CL history between these two teams...
Chicago Fire awaits bad boy Cuauhtémoc Blanco
Is the MLS ready for the Cuauhtémoc? MLS is underway and the biggest news is Beckham’s debut for the...
Arsenal’s midfield needs to score
Arsenal is still the best team to watch in the Premiership. They outclassed West Ham and were unlucky not...
Van Der Saar’s weak parry leads to a goal again
How eerie is this. Matt Taylor’s goal for Pompey against Man Utd was reminiscent of Vucinic’s winner for Roma...
Video: Ferenc Puskas: A delayed birthday tribute
On April 2nd, Ferenc Puskas would have turned 80. A tribute to the galloping major. His days in Honved,...
Sir Alex: Referee killed the Red Devils
What any impartial observer seeing the Roma vs Man Utd match would have seen was that the team playing...
Video: AS Roma 2 Man Utd 1
Roma – Man Utd | Match HighlightsUploaded by GOAAAAL Great game. Man Utd was kept off its stride by...
Lille and now Roma: Coincidence? Man U fans cry foul
Moral of the story: If you are to play Man U, play them in a neutral venue, preferably with...
Defenders are the new attackers
Van Buyten, Riise, Oddo, and Phillip Lahm, the new hunting pack Mocha is the new black. The 40’s are...
Champions League: Big games today
AS Roma vs Manchester United Totti’s day in the sun. Without doubt the bigger and better game today compared...
Blatter’s unopposed election calls for term limits
The UN has 192 member states and since its inception in 1945 has had 8 Secretary Generals, the effective...
Champions League: Big games today
Liverpool meets PSV Eindhoven Dirk Kuyt gets back to familiar territory with a great chance of scoring his first...
Different ideologies: Why Mourinho and Abramovich will part company
Lets face it. The relationship between Jose Mourinho and Roman Abramovich is not working out. And it is not...
A real headscratcher this one ………….
Peter Crouch scores the perfect hat trick as Liverpool runs rampant over Arsenal. England celebrates the best league in...
Steve McLaren: Bloke on the ropes
Watching Steve McLaren at his press conference after England’s lugubrious victory over Andorra was like watching a man who...
Good news: Kenya rejoins international soccer
The Kenyan national squad can now participate in the Africa Nations Cup qualifiers and other international games. Fifa’s Emergency...
Wenger has a point: Arsenal are the most booked team
I may have been a bit too quick to condemn Arsene Wenger’s sense of martyrdom as there are some...
Other leagues show less disparity
Lets look at the other leagues and find where the Premiership stands. The Serie clubs have played a couple...
Steve Nash, NBA All Star: Soccer mad and potential Spurs owner
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns star trains with NY Red Bulls Steve Nash, the Phoenix Suns point guard, perennial All...
Wenger’s martyr mentality is taking a toll
I am a great supporter of Arsene Wenger and I find his commitment to nurturing Arsenal’s young players a...
Video: A closer look at OM’s Samir Nasri
Born in Marseille just like Marseille’s favourite son Zinedine Zidane as well as sharing Algerian ancestry, it is inevitable...
Jack Kachkar: Olympique Marseille’s new owner
Jack Kachkar, L’OMs new owner L’ OM’s fortunes have been on the wane for over a decade since Bernard...
Cricket fades as the West Indies takes to soccer
Every four years we have cricket’s version of the World Cup and this year the West Indies is hosting...
Who wants to bet against Liverpool now?
We called it foolhardy when Rafa Benitez sent his squad a week before the game against Barca in the...
Dimitar Berbatov: White hot in White Hart
Dimitar Berbatov is the tour de force in the Spurs attack. As Robbie Keane and Mido play now you...
Premiership action: Shootout at the Fantasy Factory
Shootout at the Fantasy Factory was a 1973 Traffic album but it could well describe the Premiership this weekend...
Eurocentric bias: Blatter and FIFA overstep in Kenya ban
Sepp Blatter is a political animal. His FIFA career has been an orchestration of lining up votes, doling out...
West Ham left dead in the water
Alan Curbishley vs Alan Pardew in the clash of the 500 lbs gorillas and it is Curbs left with...
Kenya’s FIFA impasse continues
With virtually no soccer being played in their country because of the FIFA suspension, Kenyan players have left to...
British soccer hardmen pale in comparison
Craig Bellamy has impulse control issues, Lee Bowyer is a racist thug, Vinnie Jones enforces by squeezing sensitive body...
Video: David Villa’s bender against Inter
C1 Inter-Valence :1-1 Villa 21/02/07Uploaded by Luca_Toni Villa’s magnificent freekick restores parity for Valencia
Video: Bellamy to Riise, Liverpool 2 Barca 1
Riise 1 – 2 – Barcelona v LiverpoolUploaded by samgoff Bellamy assisted Riise in Liverpool’s second goal as the...
Video: Bellamy’s goal against Barca
Bellamy 1 – 1 – Barcelona v LiverpoolUploaded by samgoff Victor Valdes backs up into his own goal inexplicably....
Melbourne Victory’s victory: Global game, local connections
Archie Thompson and Fred, Victory’s deadly duo On Sunday, the Melbourne victory crushed Adelaide United, 6-0 at Telstra stadium...
Video: Jefferson Farfan, PSV Eindhoven star
Arsenal will be hoping that Farfan’s injury will keep him away from today’s Champions League match. The marauding left...
For your Champions League fix ……….
Lille v Man Utd Celtic v AC Milan PSV Eindhoven v Arsenal Real Madrid v Bayern Munich Barcelona v...
Video: Tomas Rosicky, Arsenal’s little gunner
Tomas Rosicky guns them goals directional bias or no directional bias.