Archive | October, 2009
Football transfer rumours: Tottenham to sign Rio Ferdinand?
Today’s gossip is hoping you all phone up and vote for it … It is with an extra sense of liberty that the Mill picks up its quill on this bright and cheery autumnal morning, safe in the knowledge that nobody will be reading because they are all outside the X Factor house, too busy even [...]
Continue reading...Everton v Aston Villa Preview – Premier League – 31 October 2009
31. October 2009
Everton v Aston Villa English Premier League Saturday, 31 October 2009 Kick-off: 1500 GMT Everton’s injury crisis shows no sign of abating and they are now without 10 senior players for the match against Aston Villa but defender. Leighton Baines and Louis Saha – their highest goalscorer this season – could return to the fold. Watch Everton v Aston [...]
Continue reading...Fulham v Liverpool Preview – Premier League – 31 October 2009
31. October 2009
Fulham v Liverpool English Premier League Craven Cottage Saturday, 31 October 2009 Kick-off: 1500 GMT Three days after their Carling Cup exit to Arsenal, Liverpool return to the capital on the back of five defeats from their last six league and cup games. Should the Reds win at Craven Cottage, they will have five points fewer than at the same stage [...]
Continue reading...Football transfer rumours: Liverpool to sign Valencia’s Juan Mata? | Barney Ronay
30. October 2009
Today’s gossip fears for the family line The Mill is nothing if not a traditionalist. Rumour runs deep in its blood. Cut the Mill and it bleeds rumour, not to mention also crying for ages until it sneezes snot everywhere and threatening to, like, sue you and then pretending it can’t walk properly or even sit [...]
Continue reading...MLS Playoffs 2009: Preview
30. October 2009
Anybody casually tuning in to Major League Soccer’s Week 32 action and teetering over the great lake of MLS fandom will have jumped right in. The final week of the regular season began with a cluster of teams fighting it out to take up the final three playoff spots. The results and their impact on [...]
Continue reading...Who Said the Serie A Wasn’t Entertaining?
30. October 2009
What a tumultuous ten weeks it has been. When the season kicked off, even the most Italian-friendly pundits were predicting that this season, dubbed ‘Year Zero’ by the AC Milan fans, would be the dullest season in Italian history. But it is now clear how wrong that prediction was. In the first two games of the [...]
Continue reading...The Real Problem
30. October 2009
So a new President and around 250 million pounds later, Real Madrid find themselves in exactly the same position as they were at the end of Bernd Schuster’s ill-fated rated reign in 2008. With the loss at Alcorcon in the Copa del Rey all Real Madrid’s match day personnel have been thrown into the spot-light [...]
Continue reading...Episode 26: Spitting swine flu, Newcastle naming rights and Arsenal v Tottenham
30. October 2009
Check out Episode 26 of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast with co-hosts Adrian Clarke and Iain Spragg. Football’s swine flu epidemic (including the dangers of spitting), the latest twist in Newcastle United’s tale and an escalating problem with hooliganism all crop up in conversation during this week’s spookily good show – as do all the usual [...]
Continue reading...Capello rouses Italian clubs to take power back from Ultras
30. October 2009
England manager Fabio Capello breezed into the school of excellence at Coverciano on Monday with the air of authority that comes from having won everything there is in the club game. He was there to give an inspirational speech to the school’s students who want to follow in his footsteps. Instead, Capello launched an unexpected and [...]
Continue reading...Fantasy Football: Pick Manchester United and Aston Villa players this week
30. October 2009
It was a momentous week in the Premier League, as we saw Arsenal give further ammunition to those who claim they have a soft centre with a late collapse at West Ham, Nemanja Vidic pick up a third successive red card against Liverpool, Harry Redknapp beg Aaron Lennon not to leave him and Liam Ridgewell [...]
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31. October 2009
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