Can you give Chelsea the blues?
The Beeb says to squeeze the midfield and stop those creative Chelsea midfielders from getting any real estate and...
Category: Soccer Coaches & Coaching
Ashley Cole benched: Inter rumours? Will Tweedy go along?
Arsene is extracting his punishment. He is benching Cole for the opener against Aston Villa but Cole said he...
Video: Norway 1, Brazil 1 – Ding, Dong, Dunga!
Not everyone is impressed by Dunga’s managerial style, or his style when he was a player for that matter....
The Asian Cup qualifiers: The Socceroos roll, India struggle.
Yep! Down Under the Socceroos have maintained their momentum and are turning some great performances in the Asian Cup...
Old Arsenal buddies converge on Pompey: Sol and Kanu
First Sol Campbell and now Nwankwo Kanu have moved to Portsmouth. Both Kanu and Campbell were in the double...
Joachim Löw: Germany hammers the Swedes, 3-0
Joachim Löw, Germany’s new coach, on a winning note Germany left off, with the Swedes in the World Cup,...
Owen Hargreaves to Manchester United
Hold your horses. It is that rubbish Rupert Murdoch mouthpiece the Sun that is reporting this. I have gone...
Video; England vs Greece
The post Beckham era pays off immediately
Owen Hargreaves: From most reviled to England’s cornerstone
It was not too long ago that The Sun compared Owen Hargreaves to “a mass murderer” and Hargreaves was...
England 4, Greece 0: Owen Hargreaves the Cornerstone?
Richard Williams writes in the Guardian: “Hargreaves inherited the former captain’s No7 shirt and went on to match the...
Dirk Kuyt to Anfield: The suspense is over
Liverpool strengthened its position in the Premiership and further imperiled Chelsea’s lock on the Prem title by signing Dutch...
FIFA elections 2007: Sepp Blatter should be fired this time
No sympathy for the devil this time! Joseph Blatter is standing for re-election to be president of FIFA in...
Michael Essien on his way out from Chelsea?
Michael Essien played in the Ghana-Togo friendly, that the Black Stars won 2-0, largely due to the efforts of...
The Yanks in the Premiership: Who will perform?
My picks for the top 5 performers 1) Bobby Convey: Club: Reading Position: Midfielder Bobby Convey will be the...
Premiership injury update: Ledley King back Sep 16
Club Injuries Portsmouth Player Condition Expected Return* Next Match** D Kiely thigh 9th Sep 06 D Stefanovic Achilles 19th...
Dean Ashton out: Broken ankle in training
Dean Ashton out: Blow to England and Hammers Is it just me but just when England makes the right...
Premiership rosters: The top four from 2005-2006
Arsenal Ins Tomas Rosicky B Dortmund, £6.8m; Alexandre Song Billong Bastia, undisclosed Outs Robert Pires Villarreal, free; Sol Campbell...
Video: The Mido vs Zidan show
Two of Egypt’s best strikers in this clip. If they play together they will be phenomenal, but they have...
Video: The Mido ‘incident’ at the Africa Cup
Mido and Sheheta get a bit emotional!
Eye on Egypt: Mohamed Zidan included in the Pharoahs
The soap opera that is Hassan Shehata and his relationship with Egyptian strikers, Mohamed Zidan and Ahmed ‘Mido’ Hossam...
Craig Bellamy and a healthy Robbie Fowler: The Liverpool firepower that they need
Top goal scorers: 2005- 2006 season Scorer Goals Team Thierry Henry 27 Arsenal F.C. Ruud van Nistelrooy 21 Manchester...
Premiership predictions: Liverpool tops, Aston Villa improves dramatically
Today’s FA Community Shield Championship should have gone someways in answering who will contend for the top title. Liverpool...
How Chelsea is ruining the game?
The number of players that Chelsea has given away at a loss to the club is obscene. It is...
Video: MLS All Stars vs Chelsea, 1-0
Chelsea’s Mikel John Obi in action. The Blues were not very impressive and the MLS showed nice bits of...
Simon Kuper on Michael Ballack’s debut
Ballack, who should make his official debut for Chelsea in the FA Community Shield against Liverpool tomorrow at Cardiff’s...
Steve McLaren: A man in control or plain doggone rash
Steve McLaren has already shown that he is ready to take outsized chances. He has booted out Beckham in...
Its curtains for David Beckham
There was no way a sane manager was going to take David Beckham back into the team to play...
The rise of Maggie Thatcher: The decline in England’s football fortunes
The only good thing that came out of the Margaret Thatcher and Ronnie Raygun lovefest in the 1970’s across...
Guus Hiddink’s biggest challenge: Russian indifference
Melancholy is a big part of the Russian nature. It is a theme that runs deep in Russian literature,...
Video: More Aaron Lennon
More reasons why we should not waste anymore time on Beckham. This guy is England’s and Tottenham’s future.
Video: Aaron Lennon owns John Terry
I am sure Steve McLaren remembers this moment and so does John Terry. Seriously, you would have to be...
Video: Goodbye, David Beckham! Time to bring Aaron Lennon
Steve McLaren and Terry Venables should be unsentimental: Bring Aaron Lennon in. He deserves a full 90 minutes. Lets...
Arsenal bludgeons Dinamo Zagreb, 3-0
Arsenal stayed on course for the European Championship beating Dinamo Zagreb through Van Persie’s goal, and a pair by...
Video: Ri- be- ry, Ri- be- ry, Ri- be- ry!!
Check this piece of fancy footwork by Ribery. This is the year Arsenal gets it all back from the...
Franck Ribery to Arsenal; Gallas too?
This is a great bit of news for the Gunners. Ribery has been snapped up by Wenger for £13.5m...
Womens World Cup 2007: Testesterone involved
It’s all that testesterone, Brandi! Scientific studies have shown that competitive sports increase testesterone levels in men. This is...
Liverpool FC: In performance far more than its monies worth
Liverpool is the most storied English football club there is with 18 League titles and 5 European Championships. Of...
Who wants Franck Ribery?
Franck Ribery is not happy at Olympique Marseille joing a long list of disillusioned players in this very active...
Man U misses the bus again: Vieira signs with Inter
After all Man U’s huffing and puffing and reported interest in Patrick Vieira, finally Inter bags him. I don’t...
The great divide: US Mens soccer vs its youth teams
The FIFA holds its youth World Cup every two years (U-20) and most of the talent on display form...
Video: Robbie Keane celebration
Enjoy the brilliance of Keano! No matter your club affiliation, this man is top notch.
Ledley King out again: Will miss 6 weeks of Tottenham’s season
The news keeps getting bad to worse for Ledley King. Out of the England squad with a metatarsal fracture...
Carlos Alberto Parriera: Bfana Bfana’s new coach
Parreira became South African soccer’s 14th coach in that many years since they resumed playing in 1992. He has...
Is Alex Ferguson throwing it all away?
Arsenal, Tottenham, and Liverpool have consolidated their clubs and there does not seem to be much interest in getting...
Another offer: Jurgen Klinsmann to coach Aston Villa?
Randy Lerner’s bid to buy Aston Villa seemed to be slim to none a few days ago. Apparently, Douglas...
Why are Chelsea players running away from the club?
An observation: The record money that Chelsea offers a club can buy its players but it does not buy...
Where is Hernan Crespo headed to? He loves Italy
Crespo did not report for training to Stamford Bridge and he missed his flight for Chelsea’s tour to the...
Ruud to Real; Carrick is a Red Devil
Busy, busy day in the EPL. Ruud finally finds a home at Real and the Spurs let go of...
Soccer down under: Guus is taxed and the Matildas make it
So the big news is that the Dutch have prosecuted Guus for tax fraud. He claimed that he was...
Martin O’Neill: The plaintalking coach with the Midas touch
“Nobody Knows Anything” His most recent work as a pundit on BBC has been met with praise from supporters...
Aston Villa supporters: Get Martin O’Neill
This is what you’ll get with Sven, a greedy turncoat. Eriksson on… … David Beckham: “He’s a nice boy....
Sol Campbell to Marseille? Man U in for a Ruud shock
Marseille have shown a great deal of interest in Sol Campbell. Amongst French clubs, Marseille ranks below Lyons, FC...
Aston Villa: Arab sheikhs, NFL barons, and Sven-ile dementia
Roman Abramovich flew over the London skies three years ago, looking down at the empty playing fields of Chelsea,...
Dunga is not important
So Dunga is the new Brazilian coach. I personally find it curious how much importance people give to the...