When Joe Cole first arrived at Chelsea in the Summer of 2003 he was little more than a flair player who on occasion could light up a game with his silky skills and extraordinary ability to beat his man.At first he struggled at Chelsea to hold down a ...
So the window has shut. All deals between clubs are over until January but it was a Deadline Day like any other. The big move was Robinho which I'll talk about later but this blog post is about the Dimitar Berbatov saga that finally ended at around h...
Openly slagging off your bosses never goes down well but when you are a Premiership football on a wage that most folk wouldn't earn in a year - then you have a bit more freedom to say your piece. I agree with Jamie that things aren't all that at Anf...
So Day One of the Champions League proper has been and gone. We've seen two English sides play and they both recorded victory to two decisively different ways.Chelsea gave Bordeaux the expected whooping putting four past the French outfit. Goals from...
Day two of the Champions League saw the reigning Champions of Europe enter into the competition. They had the best player in the World ready to return from the bench but when all was said and done – they were lucky to come away with a point.Villarrea...
A couple of weeks ago it could have seemed as though Chelsea were slipping back into their 'go a goal up and stop' mentality after two dire performances against Wigan and then Tottenham. The latter of these two games highlighted that something needed...
What is just me who got increasingly wound up at Chris Waddle's antics last night? One of my favourite players from my youth and I had heard top things about his co-commentary work but then I listened to him last night and boy did I cringe...When all...
Well I have lambasted Fabio left, right and centre for not taking Michael Owen. I doubt he give two hoots what I think but if he did then he'd just reply 'six points'.This morning England fans are waking up to the best result since that night in Muni...
So for such an early game in the qualification group it is sure a biggie. England travel to Zagreb to take on a Croatian team that did the double over the country last time around and haven't lost at home in 35 games. Should be fun then...England tun...
Terry Venables has the option to make a stunning return to top flight management with the glamorous role as manager of Newcastle United.The North East club who are pretty much dying a death need to do something to alleviate the fears of the fans who ...
An FA regulatory commission has thrown referee Mark Halsey to the wolves and has protected the England captain from a three-match ban after overturning the players red card against Manchester City.John Terry was sent off for serious foul play when he...
Danny Guthrie needs to get out after his horrible and petulant hack at Craig Fagan has led to the Hull City player being out after suffering a broken leg. I don't think anyone could argue that he doesn't deserve a extra ban on top of the automatic t...
On Saturday we witnessed one of the most bizarre incidents of this fledgling season or any season for that matter. We saw a goal awarded when the ball went nowhere near the goal – what exactly happened?Whilst laying on my bed watching Gillette Soccer...
Harry Redknapp was the second favourite to take over at Upton Park but the Portsmouth manager has quickly moved to distance himself from the job. He states he is extremely happy at Portsmouth and although West Ham is a great club, it isn't the time ...
The Carling Cup saw the big boys enter last night and whilst there were some upsets (Rotherham beating Southampton, West Ham getting knocked off by Watford) and there was the Welsh derby last night as Swansea beat Cardiff thanks to a deflected free-k...
So an England player reckons that a draw will do. Well let me tell you this Joe Cole - a draw in an England shirt is never good enough and we should never play for a point!...
Roy Keane has escalated his war of words with Jack Warner and I think its fantastic. The Sunderland manager has branded Warner "a clown" and a "disgrace" and he is right on the money....
You have around £1.4bn in the bank so you clearly are doing something right. There was a day in your life that your bank account went up by nearly a billion pounds in one single 24 hour period. You aren't a stupid man clearly but then you get to the ...
So as it stands...Kevin Keegan is the manager of Newcastle United. However his position is about as untenable as it can be and it is surely only a matter of time before he walks out of Newcastle, out of Newcastle United for good.Yesterday was a quite...
TalkSport are reporting that King Kev has walked out on the Toon and walked away from around £14million left on his contract.When Keegan returned in January it was hailed as the messiah coming home. Just nine months later there are now increasing rep...
Finally even journalists are starting to stop sipping the Steven Gerrard kool-aid. Frank Lampard is a tremendous midfielder and is a much more important player for England than Gerrard. So glad Gerrard never came to Stamford Bridge and Lamps could j...
Spurs boss, Juande Ramos, has recently described the current situation at the North London club as “delicate” and “complicated”. Tottenham fans, however, have been slightly less tentative in their opinions. After all, the club have just made their wo...
King Kev says kick Dennis Wise out of his job and he'll stay at the Toon and I say bravo. Keegan has realised that he holds all the aces and has all the power. If Mike Ashley decides he wants to keep Newcastle then he has to fully back Keegan, the ...
Last night European Football came to the pride of the South Coast for the first time as Portsmouth stepped into the UEFA Cup for the first time with the visit of Vitoria Guimaraes. A near capacity crowd was seen despite the unusual 6PM kick-off time ...
Last week saw Uefa introduce a crackdown on racism. Michael Platini, president of Uefa, sent out a letter to referees and match officials, which detailed a zero-tolerance policy towards those guilty of racist behaviour. The letter urges officials to ...
Fabio Capello now reckons that England's poor form at home is now our fault. Well for a man with £6million coming into his bank account each year thanks to us loyal fans he really should know when to shut the (expletive) up. Our fault that England a...
You can keep your premier league or even your football league, for sheer excitement on a football pitch and possible for more passion and feeling from those involved, I have to say my Sunday League teams recent match had everything you want from a fo...
One of our men up in the North East is taking in the Liverpool reserve games this season. Keep up to date with the games with our match reports.Liverpool Reserves suffered their first league defeat in almost a year during a difficult night in Sunderl...
So Mike Ashley has (unsurprisingly) put the Toon up for sale. He released the following statement over the weekend to explain his reasons. Have a read and let us know what you think:I have enjoyed sport since I was a boy. I love football. I have foll...
In the turbulent, exciting and frenetic world of professional football, it often seems that the only true things to cling to are the statistics. Who’s scored more goals, who has a better pass-completion rate, who’s sitting at the top of the table. He...
Week four and it is the five pronged Premiership edition of everyone's (least) favourite column – Yes it's these ten, no wait, these five things I know are true.I know that there is no bigger laughing stock in English football than Newcastle United. ...
Week four of this weekly column but there were no Premiership games this weekend so we are having two editions. Here is five things I know about the England team after Saturday's 2-0 win against Andorra in Barcelona.I know that England coach Fabio Ca...
The following ten statements are things that I know are true following the Premiership action I've seen over the weekend.I know that money can buy you happiness – but it might take a while. The clash of the cash at the weekend between Manchester City...
Another exciting weekend in the Premiership dominated by awful refereeing and the realisation just how Newcastle and Tottenham are. These ten things are things that I now know that I didn't when I left my desk on Friday afternoon.I know that Rob Styl...
After another weekend with a 'big four' clash – we look at some more things that I know now that I didn't when I left my desk late on Friday afternoon.I know that Chelsea let the chance slip to really put the hammer down and put Manchester United in ...
I've just read that Setanta Sports want £1million from any of the terrestrial networks for rights to show highlights of the Croatia v England game. That is beyond disgraceful. This company is taking the michael out of us and deserve to go bust soone...
We all want to watch live football but quite often we don't know which games are live and where. This is where the good old world wide interwebs come in and one website that can help is LiveFootballOnTV.com.This website has a comprehensive ledger of ...
There are very few occasions, events or sets of circumstances that can induce me to sit in front of the TV with the laptop on, hitting the F5 button every 45 seconds to refresh any updates on a text page on the internet. However, ticking towards midn...
Rob Styles has been a joke for quite a while and Ian Wright reckons that enough is enough and I agree with him. It is time for the FA to make a move and axe Rob Styles from the Select Group list....
West Ham United got the man they wanted by why have they gone after someone with so little management experience? A Premiership club is a lot different to Italian kids in the under-21s so it seems that they've gone for the name and not the man. Wes...
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