Category: Soccer Players
Premiership opening weekend: Portsmouth the club, Kanu the player
Kanu scored two goals in Portsmouth’s very impressive win against Balckburn Rovers. The number 16 club beating the number...
Video: Sheffield United vs Liverpool, 1-1
Steven Gerrard learned a lot from the Italians this World Cup and put it to good use against the...
Premiership: Small clubs serve notice, Blues blast Manchester City
Reading, Bolton Wanderers, Portsmouth, all overthrew their more fancied opponents. Reading came from 2 goals behind to go past...
Man U to Bayern: We will get Owen Hargreaves, no matter the cost
Owen Hargreaves’s asking price – £34m. A jawdropping figure for someone that no English club would have paid a...
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...
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...
The woman behind Sheva: Kristen Pazik
Apparently Jose Mourinho did not want Sheva as much as Roman Abramovich did. As for Sheva he really did...
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....
Football’s World Metrosexual XI: Beckham is out
Goalkeeper: D James (Portsmouth, England) Defenders: S Ramos (Real Madrid, Spain) G Zambrotta (Barcelona, Italy) A Cole (Arsenal, England),...
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...
Video: Totti’s broken ankle
The same gruesome injury to Dean Ashton will keep him out for 3 months >>
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...
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...
Video: Who is Leroy Lita?
Why you will be hearing more about Leroy Lita. And why Reading FC will escape relegation.
Video: Nuri Sahin, Turkey’s new generation of football stars
Nuri Sahin is just about 18, and plays for Borussia Dortmund. He has been denied German citizenship like millions...
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...
Video: FA Community Shield: Liverpool vs Chelsea, 2-1
Riise’s goal, Crouchy’s goal!
Video: Robbie Fowler: Back at Anfield
Robbie’s return, 5 goals in 14 appearances. This man is capable of much much more when healthy. So what...
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...
Stock markets crash on the uncertain future of metrosexuality
Stock markets crashed on the announcement that Steve McLaren had dropped David Beckham from the English squad and his...
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...
Video: Nigerian superstars: Aiyegbeni Yakubu
Middlesborough striker Yakubu scores and the Blues suffer again. Just get all these Nigerian strikers together and Chelsea will...
Video: Nigerian superstars: Nwankwo Kanu
Arsenal’s Kanu scoring his hat trick over Chelsea and much much more!
Video: Nigerian superstars: Jay Jay Okocha
Without doubt the finest player in recent times never to have played the World Cup, joining Tony Yeboah and...
Video: Nigerian superstars: Sunday Oliseh
Piledriver!
Is Bayern missing Michael Ballack?
Roy Makaay, Bayern Munich striker Not really. The Bundesliga season began with Bayern shutting out Dortmund 2-0, with Roy...
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...
Video: Ali G gets it on with Posh and Becks
Funny, funny, funny! Becks was a good sport but you could see Posh was struggling a bit. She looked...
David Beckham: The decline and fall of metrosexuality
I hope it is over. Can I go and wallow in my body odour without feeling like I have...
Hollywood calling the Beckhams: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
David Beckham and Tom Cruise are good buddies “Having my baby.” Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have unveiled their...
Video: Beckham’s best
For all those Beckham wellwishers!
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...