Normally teams are announced an hour before kick-off, but not if you’re the Sun. They have the inside scoop on the United team to face Barcelona in the Champions League final and it’s… well… pretty unsurprising. Carlos Tevez is out, Dimitar Berbatov is out, Park Ji-Sung and Ryan Giggs are in. The paper claims it’s a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 22, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
18, 30, 37, 9, 21, 11. No, these aren’t the winning numbers for tonight’s National Lottery, they’re actually the gap between Liverpool and the winner of the league dating back to the 2002-03 campaign. It’s sobering the realise that whilst Liverpool are a world class club, their inability to contend in the Premier League has [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
Speculation continues to swirl around Liverpool’s Xabi Alonso – but is Madrid’s interest for Real? The Legacy of Reprocessing in the United Kingdom by Martin Forwood (A research report of the International Panel on Fissile Materials), seven pages worth of averages from somebody’s village cricket team, a Daily Mail article detailing the drunken debauchery of champagne-guzzling [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Not content with provoking Sir Alex Ferguson during the season and then failing to offer his congratulations to the Manchester United manager upon winning the Premier League title, Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez is set to further annoy his nemesis with an astonishing £50million swoop for Carlos Tevez. Benitez’s attempt to lure Gabriel Heinze to Anfield from [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Today’s tell-all has arrived at the conclusion that pompous hacks who keep writing about “the integrity of the Premier League” obviously aren’t familiar with the Premier League The Rumour Mill has no problem admitting that much of its daily round-up of transfer speculation is taken from The Sun, but we were puzzled by their proud boast [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Seasons are coming to a close around Europe, and while many big names will make moves in the upcoming summer transfer window, we’re also going to see a few notable managers change clubs in the near future. With that in mind, today’s transfer news and rumors roundup has a little managerial news from around [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 19, 2009
With the European football season drawing to a close the attention of the UK press is fully focused on transfer tittle-tattle and Tuesday’s big money move centres around Wigan Athletic winger Antonio Valencia. The Daily Mail ‘exclusively’ reveal that the Ecuador international is set to join Real Madrid after Latics boss Steve Bruce thrashed out a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Today’s rumours are looking for a comfortable dark place in which to hide Yes, he’s really off now. Off. This time. Going now. Five-goal ace Carlos Tevez really is packing up his little scurrying legs and taking his wounded, puppyish baby-brown eyes off to somewhere else, somewhere better, somewhere his organ grinder can get a few [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 18, 2009
My Grandad always used to say “The Runners Up in anything are just the first losers”. It is a notion that is unlikely to endear himself to the man who he refers to consistently as “Bennertez”, as Rafa Benitez wakes up today contemplating being the “first loser” of this season’s Premier League. But, clichés and mispronunciations [...]
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