MLS: Sounders-Timbers not as progressive as some hope
SEATTLE – Since the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers inaugurated Major League Soccer’s Cascadia Cup rivalry on Saturday night, fans and journalists alike have been proclaiming that the game was…
This Summer’s Best Free Transfers
Is your club completely skint? Still waiting for your Arab oil sheikh to sink billions of his black gold profits into your first team? Just like the rest of us,…
Where to now for West Ham?
West Ham are down – but not out. Here are six points suggesting how they can rebound straight back up.
QPR promotion party still on hold as FA investigate illegal payments to third party caterer
Newly-promoted Queens Park Rangers are still no closer to holding their end of season promotion party, after it emerged that the FA are investigating reports that the R’s have hired…
Zlatan Ibrahimovic continuing his incredible domestic dominance
Zlatan Ibrahimovic was Silvio Berlusconi’s marquee signing last summer in a bid to discontinue Milan’s seven year drought without a Scudetto. Not only has the big Swede taken to Italian…
Manchester United: Champions 19 Times and That’s a Fact!
That’s it…the lads have done it, we’ve finally knocked Liverpool off their perch. It might haven’t been a vintage season, but it was damn sure it was a exciting one….
Manchester United Are Champions of England: Ceasefire at Ewood Park Makes History
Liverpool were not so much knocked as bundled off their perch as a typically below-par away performance from Manchester United sealed a scrappy 1-1 draw at Blackburn Rovers to gift…
Manchester City End 35 Years of Pain With FA Cup Win
It’s been 35 long, painful years, but Manchester City fans can finally trade in tears of anguish for tears of joy. The Citizens won the FA Cup with a 1-0…
Manchester City vs. Stoke City: 2011 FA Cup Final Live Blog
In the clash of two very disparate Cities, there are a certain amount of similarities. Both feature powerful teams capable of grinding out necessary results thanks to a sturdy defensive…
Saving The Beautiful Game: A Radical Revision of the Rules of Football
Nearly 25 years have passed since Diego Maradona scored the infamous “hand of God” goal that took England out of the World Cup in1986. A few months before the World…
Form Crucial to Championship Playoff Success
It seems that the Championship Playoff finals are often won by the team who is playing best at the end of the season. Last year, Ian Holloway masterminded a Blackpool offensive (cough) juggernaut to promotion behind Charlie Adam and against a Cardiff side who’ve developed the nasty reputation of being playoff chokers. This year, the popular picks from pundits have gone to anyone but the Bluebirds. But is there really a trend to which clubs are most successful come playoff time?
2010/2011 Championship Playoffs Prediction: Cardiff, Forest, Reading or Swansea?
In the last several years of the Championship, there has been a trend developing that I’m surprised has not been made a big deal of. Since the end of the…
Lucas and Spearing: Maligned to Masterful
No, Liverpool are not going to make the Champions League this season. That said, it’s nice being a Liverpool fan at the moment. Goals are being rattled in, games we…
What has turned Liverpool’s season around?
It is beyond doubt that Kenny Dalglish’s reintroduction to the Anfield faithful has provided the catalyst for a sparkling run of form that has seen Liverpool win six and lose…
Manchester City have 44% chance of beating Tottenham and securing Champions League football
In the penultimate game of last season Harry Redknapp boldly led his Tottenham side to Eastlands and a Peter Crouch header secured a well deserved 1-0 win over Manchester City…
