Tag Archive | "Bolton"

Keeping Davies the key for Bolton

Monday, June 22, 2009

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Bolton Wanderers captain Kevin Davies is reportedly a transfer target for Bolton’s Lancashire rivals Blackburn Rovers. Davies endured a (very) difficult season for the Rovers way back in 1998/99 after a £7.5million move from Southampton. In his spell with the Rovers Davies scored just once in 24 games and was promptly sent back to Saouthampton [...]

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Football “Franchises” – Right or Wrong?

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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In a summer bereft of football, the release of fixture lists this week provide some form of respite for fans starved of action. Away trips are plotted, long weekends at some of the more far-flung fixtures are planned, and best mates are pleaded with not to hold their wedding on a certain date as it [...]

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Transfer Rumors (15 June 09): Man United after Valencia stars Villa and Silva, Aston Villa close on Tottenham duo, Berbatov and Pavlyuchenko linked with Bundesliga moves, and more

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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We’re already in the middle of June, and though the signings haven’t been coming hard and fast just yet, that doesn’t mean that there’s a shortage of action thus far in the summer transfer window. In this morning’s transfer news and rumors roundup, we’ve got tidbits from England, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and Greece, [...]

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Football transfer rumours: Brede Hangeland to Arsenal?

Friday, May 22, 2009

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Today’s tittle-tattle is off to live in a floating duck house – because we deserve to be safe from foxes too Forget Manchester United v Barcelona, The New Harry Potter Movie v The New Terminator Movie or Peter Andre and Katie Price v The Possibility That Newspapers Might Stop Writing About Them Soon, the real heavyweight [...]

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Top of the flops: The five worst Premier League signings of the season!

Friday, May 22, 2009

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There’s nothing quite like the buzz and thrill of expectancy when your club announces a new signing. Let’s face it, it doesn’t matter if you follow a team in the lowest echelons of the Conference South or one of the European superpowers at completely the other end of the spectrum, you just can’t beat that [...]

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Newcastle deserved a point, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United deserved an extra goal

Monday, May 18, 2009

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The penultimate weekend of the season provoked plenty of Right Result activity at the top and bottom of the table. Manchester United’s day just about went to plan as they secured their 11th Premier League title with a nil-nil draw against Arsenal. It wasn’t without a few jitters before the end of the game at Old [...]

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WBA Are The Latest Victims Of Football Fantasy

Monday, May 18, 2009

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West Brom are now mathematically relegated. Well, what did they accomplish? Did they enjoy their stay? And despite all the nice touches their midfielders have had, will we really miss them? Every season one of the promoted clubs takes on their mantle; they will be the promoted side that will play “The Football.” Their manager will [...]

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Robbin’ a Van Persie?

Monday, May 18, 2009

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Plenty of Tevez talk doing the rounds on Sunday, but we’ll get round to that! The more interesting story concerns Arsenal, with the News of the World claiming that the Gunners are considering cashing in on their niggle-friendly forward. He’s yet to sign a new £70,000-a-week contract at the Emirates and Monsieur Wenger could use that [...]

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Wenger has his head turned

Monday, May 18, 2009

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Monday morning, another title gone up north and Arsenal fans wake up to the news that manager Arsene Wenger finds Real Madrid ‘interesting.’ Now this would be fine if it was the type of ‘interesting’ usually reserved for that person on the bus with tin foil on his head, but quotes attributed to the Frenchman in [...]

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Transfer Rumors (14 May 09): Chelsea after Arsenal’s Adebayor and Villa’s Young, Tottenham want Santa Cruz, Barcelona to land Inter’s Ibrahimovic, and more

Friday, May 15, 2009

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Is it safe to say that striker receives more time in the transfer gossip pages from January to December than any other position? Several well-known strikers are in today’s transfer news and rumors, but the goal-getters aren’t the only men in the summer shop window. In today’s roundup, we’ve got tidbits from several of [...]

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