West Ham fallout: The ballad of Ms Purdon and Mr Duxbury
Dangerous times lie ahead of West Ham. West Ham’s stay and solvency in the Premiership might come down to...
Category: Soccer Business
Joey Barton on the lam
Ousmane Dabo Wear a visor if you are anywhere near Joey Barton, friends and foes alike. The man likes...
With Shinawatra as owner of Man City, the Premiership will have crossed a line
The Premiership has quite a few owners who have dabbled in shady business dealings before. Tom Hicks, co-owner of...
Thierry Henry in Time’s Top 100
Thierry Henry makes the list of Time’s most influential people of the year. Tony Parker, San Antonio Spurs guard,...
BBC’s Inside Sports lets off Sepp Blatter
Sepp Blatter was interviewed on BBC’s new sports programme “Inside Sports’ and it turned out to be a fluffball....
CL return leg: Liverpool vs Chelsea
Peter Crouch meets Michael Essien Liverpool should throw caution to the winds. They need to get adventurous. Chelsea is...
Bollywood meets the Premiership
The Premiership is now a Bollywood destination. Or Stamford Bridge is rather than the Reebok. On June 15, 2007,...
The case for salary restrictions in the Premiership
I was struck by the fact, watching the NFL draft which concluded recently, this is a league that has...
Sam Allardyce resigns to big questions
Big Sam Allardyce whose pugnacious style of coaching revitalized Bolton announced his resignation in a shocker. The resignation is...
Juan Pablo Angel will have more impact than Becks
It’s just too bad that the NY Red Bulls can’t just drink Red Bull and finish on top of...
Kroenke’s buyout of Arsenal perceived as hostile
Stan Kroenke moves to take over Arsenal. This is huge. David Dein has resigned and there is speculation that...
Who is rooting for a Liverpool vs Milan rematch?
I am. With memories of the most fascinating and enthralling final played in CL history between these two teams...
Michael Chopra: South Asian pride in da house
Michael Chopra becomes the leading scorer in the Championship. 21 goals! And renews his contract with Cardiff City. Now...
Arsenal awaits a new owner
Indications are that Arsenal may have a new owner. Unlike the other big three, Man Utd, Chelsea, and Liverpool,...
Sir Alex: Referee killed the Red Devils
What any impartial observer seeing the Roma vs Man Utd match would have seen was that the team playing...
Lille and now Roma: Coincidence? Man U fans cry foul
Moral of the story: If you are to play Man U, play them in a neutral venue, preferably with...
Champions League: Big games today
AS Roma vs Manchester United Totti’s day in the sun. Without doubt the bigger and better game today compared...
Blatter’s unopposed election calls for term limits
The UN has 192 member states and since its inception in 1945 has had 8 Secretary Generals, the effective...
Different ideologies: Why Mourinho and Abramovich will part company
Lets face it. The relationship between Jose Mourinho and Roman Abramovich is not working out. And it is not...
Soccer stands to gain following India’s disgraceful exit
Right now effigies of Indian cricketers are being burned and their families threatened with dire consequences. And for those...
Good news: Kenya rejoins international soccer
The Kenyan national squad can now participate in the Africa Nations Cup qualifiers and other international games. Fifa’s Emergency...
Andrew Jennings: Sepp Blatter’s shell games continue
Sepp Blatter is upto his old tricks with his willing accomplice FIFA’s vice president Jack Warner. At stake are...
Other leagues show less disparity
Lets look at the other leagues and find where the Premiership stands. The Serie clubs have played a couple...
Goal differential: A tale of two Premierships
The big four Premiership clubs walk away with the lions share of the revenues filling their already swollen coffers...
Video: Steve Nash shows soccer moxie
Why do I get this strange feeling that Steve Nash might do more to promote soccer in this country...
Steve Nash, NBA All Star: Soccer mad and potential Spurs owner
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns star trains with NY Red Bulls Steve Nash, the Phoenix Suns point guard, perennial All...
Video: A closer look at OM’s Samir Nasri
Born in Marseille just like Marseille’s favourite son Zinedine Zidane as well as sharing Algerian ancestry, it is inevitable...
Jack Kachkar: Olympique Marseille’s new owner
Jack Kachkar, L’OMs new owner L’ OM’s fortunes have been on the wane for over a decade since Bernard...
Cricket fades as the West Indies takes to soccer
Every four years we have cricket’s version of the World Cup and this year the West Indies is hosting...
Drogba’s award sells African soccer short
A bow to the Premiership and its selling power as it rules the roost in global viewership. But if...
Gazza to star in sci-fi horror movie
You’ll soon see Gazza in movie halls in a sci-fi horror movie called Final Run. And no, its title...
British soccer hardmen pale in comparison
Craig Bellamy has impulse control issues, Lee Bowyer is a racist thug, Vinnie Jones enforces by squeezing sensitive body...
Video: Bellamy to Riise, Liverpool 2 Barca 1
Riise 1 – 2 – Barcelona v LiverpoolUploaded by samgoff Bellamy assisted Riise in Liverpool’s second goal as the...
For your Champions League fix ……….
Lille v Man Utd Celtic v AC Milan PSV Eindhoven v Arsenal Real Madrid v Bayern Munich Barcelona v...
Does soccer also have its ‘unproductive’ stars?
Marx addressed the issue of worker productivity and set into motion modern day labour laws. The ILO now records...
Site Review: Sportscheat.org
Here’s an interesting site dedicated to fighting cheating in the Premiership. Midnightjester (not his real name, or is it?)...
Obafemi Martins: The best transfer this season
When we look at players who have exploded on the Premiership in their first season and single handedly changed...
Arsenal a seriously certifiable team: Take your meds
Take a bow Arsenal. You make every other team in the Premiership look pedestrian. Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool may...
In today’s India, soccer finds no place
India’s overheating economy along with China’s is the topic du jour nowadays in the global economy. Overnight, the IT...
Schalke soccer shocker: Bayern is verklempt
Otto Hitzfeld’s boys are feeling some real pain and there is a sense of doom and gloom choking the...
Long lines outside the San Siro
Ronaldo is back in business at the San Siro Long lines formed outside the San Siro, as security frisked...
Arsenal and the Colorado Rapids team up
Forbes reports that Arsenal made a bit of a reverse investment across the pond forming a business partnership with...
India slumps to a FIFA low of 157
India’s FIFA rankings have plunged to 157, its lowest ever. The AIFF secretary general Alberto Colaco, has woken up...
Real Madrid richest club: Spain reigns on England’s parade
Spain and Sergio Aragones put the kibosh on the Three Lions, 1-0 and Steve McLaren had to hear it...
Italy gets cracking: Pisanu decree to be reinforced
Italy opened itself upto soccer business and Luca Pancalli, the FIGC special commissioner stated that games would get underway...
The English response to hooligans: Price them out
Italian authorities in search of answers to curb the soccer violence in the Palermo and Catania match that resulted...
MLS fan: US business feels your pain
US businessmen have spent 2.5 billion dollars buying out Premiership clubs like there is no tomorrow. It has become...
Tom Hicks: Liverpool’s co-owner and his dubious history
Tom Hicks, Liverpool’s new owner George Gillett and Tom Hicks £470m takeover of Liverpool saved the Merseyside club from...
Berlusconi apologizes while Italy shuts down soccer
The unending drama that is Italian life. Where people and institutions fight and make up in extraordinary public displays....
Tiger Woods weighs in on the Beckham factor
Tiger Woods regularly kids Roger Federer that he will break Jack Nicklaus record of 18 PGA titles before Federer...
Aliadere anwers for the Gunners
Arsenal are through to next month’s League Cup final against Chelsea as Jeremy Aliadere came through for the Gunners...
Gareth Bale stays put in Southampton
Gareth Bale rejected a 10 million pound offer from Spurs deferring to Saints manager George Burley’s advise that he...
Video: Liverpool 2 West Ham
Dirk Kuyt’s blast and Crouch complete the victory over a futile West Ham that sinks lower into relegation zone.
LA Galaxy and Becks head for Oz
LA Galaxy wants to put Beckham to good use as the ambassador of the club. The LA Galaxy is...