Videos
Story of the season so far: October 08
The month of October saw the Premier Leagues managers make all the headlines. Joe Kinnear proved that ‘fiasco’ and ‘farce’ weren’t the only ‘F’ words they know at Newcastle whilst Harry Redknapp was branded a Judas on the south coast yet again, turning his back on Portsmouth for the second time in just 4 years.
Snowball fight stops game
Watch how ‘loco’ Atletico Madrid fans halted their home game with Bilbao with a volley of well aimed snowballs
Story of the season so far: September 08
Its time for part 2 of our review of the season as we move onto the month of September where things really started to hot up on and off the field. The first managerial casualties were claimed, the first of the top 4 clashes produced asurprise and one of the top 4 were all but out of the title race by the end of the month.
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
Manchester United v Newcastle video highlights 17/8/08
Manchester United’s title defense got off to a shaky start as they dropped 2 points at home to a resurgent Newcastle side who they beat 6-0 in the corresponding fixture last season. United were without Ronaldo and Tevez and their attack was suitably numb with Rooney looking unlikely to breach a new look Newcastle defence [...]
Aston Villa v Manchester City video highlights 17/8/08
Aston Villa stormed past Manchester City in a 6 goal second half shoot out at Villa park thanks largely to a Gabriel Agbonlahor hat trick. City had lost highly rated Bulgarian striker Valeri Bozhinov in a freak accident in the warm up which will now see him miss another six months of his fledgling Premier [...]
Chelsea v Portsmouth video highlights 17/8/08
Chelsea romped to an emphatic home win over FA cup holders Portsmouth in their first competitive game under new boss Luiz Felipe Scolari. Pompey boss Harry Redknapp chose to field an attacking 4-4-2 formation partnering new signing Peter Crouch with England striker Jermain Defoe in what turned out to be a costly opening day gambit. [...]
Hull City v Fulham video highlights 16/8/08
Hull City marked their first ever top flight game in their 104 year history with a win over Roy Hodgson’s new look Fulham side. Seol Ki Hyeon put Fulham ahead with an excellent leap and well executed header before Hull drew level through Brazilian Geovanni who now holds an amazing record of having scored in [...]
Middlesbrough v Tottenham video highlights 16/8/08
Tottenham were expected to steamroll a young Middlesbrough team at the Riverside stadium but Spurs new signings failed to live upto the hype and Juande Ramos’ decision to leave Dimitar Berbatov on the bench soon seemed foolish. Boro had a perfectly good goal ruled out early in the first half after Wheater had headed in [...]
Everton v Blackburn video highlights 16/8/08
Paul Ince ended Blackburns 8 games winless streak against the toffees scoring a shock opening day victory over Everton at goodison park. The game was one of the most thrilling openers to the new EPL season seeing 5 goals netted in a game that see sawed one way then the other. Rovers had taken an [...]
Arsenal v West Brom video highlights 16/8/08
Samir Nasri marked his Premier League debut with an early goal as Arsenal yet again started another season with another home win. The fixtures computer is very kind to Arsenal on the opening day sending them out of north London only 4 times in the history of the Premier League and often pitching them against [...]
Sunderland v Liverpool video highlights 16/8/08
Fernando Torres was the difference between the 2 sides as Liverpool travelled to Sunderland on the opening day of the new Premier League season. The game had looked like heading towards a goalless draw when the new strike partnership of Keane and Torres botched the best chance of the game. Gordon had agilily reacted to [...]
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 [...]
2008 Olympic football results round one
The Olympics hasn’t officially started yet but the only exciting part of the tournament got underway a day early in Beijing as the mens football kicked off. The big stories of the day were Brazil and Italys controversial victories over Belgium and Honduras as both sides benefitted from some extremely generous refereeing.
Brazil were struggling to [...]
New Rover Villanueva video
Blackburn Rovers have moved swiftly to replace David Bentley by agreeing a loan move for Chilean trickster Carlos Villanueva who has already become somewhat of a sensation with his new teammates. The Chilean player of the year will spend the season at Ewood park with a view to a permanent £4m move if all goes [...]
Barton out on bail
Newcastle United midfielder Joey Barton has been released from prison on bail today. The former England international was released from Strangeways prison in Manchester after serving just 74 days of a 6 month sentence, this despite being found guilty of another assault on teammate Ousmane Dabo just weeks ago. Newcastle were expected to set an [...]
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 [...]
John Terry penalty jokes
If you have to use the internet at work you’ve probably been bombarded with John Terry jokes by your humourous friends and workmates especially if your a Chelsea fan and your friends are Man united fans. In an attempt to get it all out in one go here is my favourite video compilation of the [...]
