Charlie Rhodes
Sports Editor
Tired? How About Cutting Out The 22,000 Mile Pre-Season Tours?
Amidst the recent furore over the clamour by several leading figures in the game to introduce a fortnight’s winter break to Premier League proceedings, one salient piece of white-hot hypocrisy…
The Inspirational Signing of Joe Cole
When Roy Hodgson signed Joe Cole on a free transfer, it marked the beginning of the end for Liverpool. The end being of course, the downward curve which Rafael Benitez…
The lurid lure of transfer rumours
Now that the World Cup has finished and we are in the midst of the summer lull, the residue of broken dreams and weary familiarity with England’s failure has inevitably…
Premier League Clubs Ban Vuvuzelas Amidst ‘Safety’ Fears
Three Premier League clubs have all independently announced the banning of vuvuzelas from their stadiums next season, with Tottenham, Arsenal and Birmingham City all declaring that they intend to stem…
Will Joe Cole Finally Deliver On His Teenage Potential At Liverpool?
As you’ve probably heard, the perennial golden boy of English football Joe Cole signed up to a four-year stint at Liverpool yesterday, thus ending months of mounting speculation as to…
The Big Four: Are they prepared enough?
As the World Cup frenzy finally ends, with La Furia Roja lifting the coveted trophy and the psychic Octopus Paul ready to be fried in Garlic butter by the Germans,…
Arsene Wenger – The Wise One
As the news slowly made its way across the pond to me that Thierry Henry had signed for the New York Red Bulls, I couldn’t help but think, “He is…
Walter Promises Youth – Who to look out for?
Rangers manager Walter Smith has admitted youth will get its chance next season at Ibrox as the SPL Champions face tough times with debt problems. The exact figure of the…
Who should be the young English coach to join the England set-up
With Sir Trevor Brooking saying that England want to appoint a young English coach to gain experience and eventually replace Fabio Capello in the national side hot-seat, Peter Jackson analyses…
Official: Liverpool Sign Joe Cole On A Four-Year Deal
Liverpool have confirmed, via their official website (which has now crashed), that free-agent Joe Cole has signed for the club on a four-year deal following his release from Chelsea. The…
Free agent Cole to leave London for £90k per week Liverpool deal?
Thus far this summer, the only certainty about Joe Cole’s future is that it doesn’t lie at Chelsea. So far, we’ve seen the England playmaker linked with a host of…
Barcelona to make final offer of £40m for Arsenal star Fabregas
Will Arsenal finally cave in to Barcelona’s persistence on Cesc Fabregas, or will another summer come and go with Cesc where he’s been since September 2003? Yesterday, Arsenal manager Arsene…
Chelsea to make £50m bid for Torres – should Liverpool accept it?
If Roy Hodgson thought that Chelsea were going to give up hope of signing Fernando Torres after yesterday’s declaration that their Spanish strike star wasn’t for sale, hopefully he’s a…
Transfer Rumors: Chelsea up bid for Liverpool star Torres to 50m
England Chelsea Go To 50m For Torres? According to the Mirror, Chelsea have made a £50m bid for Fernando Torres, after having an initial bid of 40m knocked back by…