Articles By Charlie Rhodes (31339)

Will Reina And Torres Really Lead The Liverpool Exodus?

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Oct 28 2010

Call it sensationalist horsesh*t if you wish, but splashed across the backpage of this morning’s Daily Mirror (which is, granted, not a newspaper that tends to let the facts stand…

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9 Sportsmen Who Bent The Rules And Got Away With It

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Oct 30 2010

At the highest levels of sport competition is intense and a tiny advantage can often times be the difference between winning and losing … not to mention the difference between…

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Bastian Schweinsteiger: Manchester United or Real Madrid?

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Dec 31 2021

At the youthful age of 26, Bastian Schweinsteiger has already a rather successful career. His current haul of five Bundesliga titles, five German Cups, two League Cups and a Champions…

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Early season tales; can City, Arsenal, United and Tottenham stop Chelsea?

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Oct 28 2010

It is often said that you can begin to make sense of the league table after 10 games. With nine games played we are more or less at that point, but are we any the wiser as to how the season will unfold?

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Newcastle 0-4 Arsenal – Silverware guaranteed?

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Oct 28 2010

With both starting elevens full of fringe players and youngsters, the match promised to be full of entertainment from the beginning and it did just that.  Newcastle came close first,…

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Not even Championship clubs care about the Carling Cup, Adel Taarabt is a lunatic and Pumpkin Penalties

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Oct 27 2010

The League Cup is a joke While Premier League sides have for a while now been putting out reserve teams in this competition, it was interesting to see Swansea, Burnley…

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The Pressures Of The Fickle Fan

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Feb 19 2011

Javier Hernandez has enjoyed a breathtaking start to his Manchester United career, but it is quite unrealistic for the supporters to think that he is going to maintain his dazzling…

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Time For Michael Owen To Accept The Inevitable?

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Oct 27 2010

Some footballing headlines are just so unfathomably inevitable that they may as well remain unreported, with the masses left to just assume that Occam was right about his razor and…

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Arsenal Vs Newcastle – Match Preview

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Oct 11 2021

I didn’t manage to get on here for the Man City match report, but I’m sure you all got to watch it. What a game eh? Well the Man City…

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Manchester United buy Nobby Stiles's World Cup and European Cup medals

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Feb 19 2011

A World Cup medal and a European Cup medal won by Nobby Stiles have been bought for more than £200,000 by Manchester United. The World Cup medal which Stiles won…

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Clear Signs That Arsene Wenger Is Getting Desperate

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Oct 27 2010

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has vowed to abandon his policy of blooding members of his ever-burgeoning creche during the early rounds of the Carling Cup, in lieu of making a…

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PSV Beats Feyenoord 10-0 in Eredivisie: How The Mighty Have Fallen

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Oct 27 2010

If one needs further confirmation that Dutch football was slipping down the echelons of European football, look no further than this weekend’s shocking upset–PSV Eindhoven beat the once-giant Feyenoord 10-0….

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The Future Is Theirs

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Feb 19 2011

In the last week, the drive of Manchester United has been under intense scrutiny, but those questions should be put to bed following Sir Alex Ferguson’s next generation extending the…

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United 3 Wolves 2: Cult Status For Cup Hero

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Feb 19 2011

Manchester United escaped further controversy as they secured safe passage to the Quarter-finals of the Carling Cup with a 3-2 win over the Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford. Javier Hernandez…

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How on earth has Diego Milito failed to make the cut for the Ballon d’Or?

Author image Charlie Rhodes  •  Oct 26 2010

What a year it has been for Diego Milito. He finally achieved a big money move to one of Europe’s elite after impressive spells at Real Zaragoza and Genoa. Not…

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