Europe
New Barcelona kits 09/10
The new Barcelona strips for the next season have been unveiled by the club and Nike with a return for the famous striped home shirt.
Story of the season so far: November 08
As the Premier league entered the month of November there were 2 teams making the headlines on and off the pitch and that was Arsene Wenger’s up and down Arsenal and Big Phil Scolari’s Chelsea.
Snowball fight stops game
Watch how ‘loco’ Atletico Madrid fans halted their home game with Bilbao with a volley of well aimed snowballs
Catania players moon Torino keeper
Straight from the crazy mind of Italian legend Walter Zenga comes this set piece strategy that begins with nudity and ends with a goal
Coloccini comes to Toon
Newcastle United today hailed the arrival of some long awaited defensive reinforcements as Argentinian international Fabricio Coloccini arrived from Deportivo La Coruna. Coloccini has signed a 5 year deal which could cost the magpies upto £10.3m depending on appearances and will wear the number 2 jersey at his new club. Coloccini has so far failes [...]
Champions league 3rd qualifying round 09 videos
Arsenal once again got the better of Steve McClaren as they dispatched his FC Twente side in the first leg of the qualifying round. Second half goals from William Gallas and Emanuel Adebayor were good enough to give the gunners the cushion need to take back to the Emirates in 2 weeks.
Meanwhile in Belgium Liverpool [...]
Champions League qualifying draw 08/09
The draw for the preliminary rounds of the Champions league took place this morning and it through up an interesting battle between the ‘wally with the brolly’ and ‘Le Proffeseur’ as Arsenal drew FC Twente. The Dutch side who beat Ajax in a playoff at the end of last season to secure their Champions league [...]
Wenger brings in Bischoff
Arsene Wenger has added another typical signing to the Arsenal ranks today with the arrival of Amaury Bischoff from Werder Bremen. No suprises then that he’s French, young and ofcourse an unproven talent as he didn’t make a single appearance in the Bundesliga. If 21 year old Bischoff is a success we will no doubt [...]
Behrami becomes a Hammer
West Ham United have made their first acquisition of the transfer window completing the signing of highly rated Swiss midfielder Valon Behrami from Lazio. Behrami has signed on a 5 year deal with the Hammers paying Lazio £5m for his services. The 23 year old Swiss international featured in all 3 of Switzerlands games in [...]
Makelele and Boulahrouz leave the blues
Claude Makelele and Khalid Boulahrouz have become the latest casualties of the Scolari era as the new Chelsea boss trims his squad down. Makelele has moved to French Ligue 1 strugglers Paris St Germain on a free transfer after 5 years at Stamford Bridge following his £16m arrival from Real Madrid. Makelele now 35 has [...]
Hleb leaves Arsenal for Barca
Aleksander Hleb has penned a 4 year contract with Barcelona after Arsenal let the wantaway midfielder leave on a cut price deal. The Bielorussian international had been expected to stay after Arsene Wenger put his foot down and ruled out the sale of the playmaker but has since backtracked after Hleb reiterated his desire to [...]
Ronaldinho makes Milan move
Former world player of the year Ronaldinho has completed his move to Italian side AC Milan, a deal which is set to spark a flurry of transfer activity around Europe. Milan who finished 5th in Serie A last season beat Manchester City to the signing of the mercurial Brazilian talent after the player rescinded his [...]
Riise signs Roma deal
Liverpool left back Jon Arne Riise has signed for Serie A runners up Roma for an initial fee of £4m. The red haired Norwegian made over 300 appearances for the Anfield club winning the Champions league, FA Cup and League cup in his 7 year stay. After being asked to concentrate on his defensive dutes [...]
FIFA take no action against Madrid
FIFA have today announced that they will be taking no acton against Real Madrid in regards to their public courting of Cristiano Ronaldo. According to a FIFA statement released today no action can be taken untill a a breach of contract has occurred which from Manchester United’s point of view would be much too late:
“We [...]
Scolari named new Chelsea boss
Portugal manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has been named as the new Chelsea manager and will take charge at the end of the Euro 2008 tournament. Scolari who was twice a target of the FA had hinted earlier today that he would be leaving Portugal to manage on foreign shores. Big Phil as he is lovingly [...]
Euro 2008: Holland 3-0 Italy
The first clash between 2 of the favourites in Euro 2008 didn’t dissapoint as the world cup winners met the dutch masters in the so called group of death. The game was by far the best encounter in the championships so far, not only producing the most goals but also the biggest shock as Holland [...]
Euro 2008: Germany 2-0 Poland
Due to a few boring internet problems (had to get a static IP for all you tech people) over the weekend and the last couple of days i haven’t been able to post anything about the Euro’s getting under way, I know it may have looked like England was boycotting the tournament because we didn’t [...]
United report Real to FIFA
Manchester United have taken dramtic steps to end the speculation surrounding wantaway winger Cristiano ronaldo by reporting Real Madrid to FIFA. In a statement on their website the premier league champions pointed out that they had publicly warned Madrid about their conduct but feel the La liga champions have not altered their behaviour:
“On 27 May, [...]
Dos Santos signs Spurs deal
Barcelona’s promising Mexican midfielder Giovani Dos Santos has signed for Tottenham Hotspur in an initial £4.7m deal. There are a number of conditions attatched to the deal as Barca look for compensation for yet another Cantera product, with the fee rising to £8.6m depending on appearances and Barca claiming a 20% sell on fee for [...]
