Football Manager – What makes a good manager?
It would be foolish of me to insult your intelligence within this article by banging on about the fact that a good FM manager is determined by the games they…
Procrastinator’s Paradise – The Best Online Football Games
Feel like partaking in a good old fashioned spot of football-based procrastination at work? You’ll be able to while away the hours at your desk with this selection of some…
Bet on Chelsea and Liverpool to win their final Champions League group game
As we head into the final group matches all of the English sides know their fate. Sporting Index punters that bought Liverpool’s outright spread will have been hugely disappointed to…
How will Angola 2010 affect Ligue 1?
It has developed into some kind of a tradition that every year, when the African Cup of Nations takes place in January, Chelsea come out moaning about the effect it…
Milan are the real winners after Derby d’Italia
Alberto Cerruti, La Gazzetta dello Sport’s chief football writer, was unsparing in his analysis of Saturday evening’s much-anticipated Derby d’Italia. “Juventus win with a splendid goal and Inter lose, seeing…
Football Manager – What makes a good winger?
It’s fair to say that Cristiano Ronaldo has taken the meaning of the word ‘winger’ to a whole new level during the last couple of years. The primary role of…
Football Manager – What makes a good striker?
Wayne Rooney, Fernando Torres, David Villa, Samuel Eto’o. We can all name them but what is it that makes them rank among the best strikers in the world? Well while I…
Fulham and Sunderland look to improve on good starts
Fulham v Sunderland English Premier League Sunday, 6 December 2009 Craven Cottage Kickoff: 15:00 GMT Although Tottenham have also thrilled goals buyers in recent weeks, the more competitive game on…
Miodrag Bozovic: Why Europe Should Be Out for the Count
As everybody knows, the most famous Count of them all had no reflection and could only be seen by others, never by himself. A curious inversion of this phenomenon appears…
2010 World Cup Fixtures
FIFA World Cup 2010 fixtures – for group stages and knockout stages – are listed below. Kickoff times are set to local time (South Africa).
Football Manager – What makes a good attacking midfielder?
So what exactly makes a good attacking midfielder? Well obviously an abundance of goals, clever through balls and a bucket load of assists wouldn’t be a bad starting point. Although…
World Cup 2010 Host Cities
The temperature’s certainly rising right now, but come June, South Africa will have full-on football fever. Nine South African cities will add their names to a select list of places…
Rustenburg: 2010 Host City
Rustenburg’s name may translate into ‘Place of Rest’, but it will be anything but come June when the World Cup comes to the city located in South Africa’s North West…
Cape Town: 2010 Host City
Cape Town is South Africa’s second largest city, and it’s the site of the third-largest World Cup 2010 venue, the 69,070-capacity Cape Town Stadium. Cape Town, which is the legislative…
Pretoria: 2010 Host City
Pretoria, the national capital of South Africa, is the location of the Loftus Versfeld Stadium, which will serve as host for six World Cup 2010 ties. The city, in the…
