Gareth Bale has reached incredible heights at Tottenham this season, 31 goals for club and country is no mean feat – more so for a player who isn’t a striker. He has almost single-handedly carried Tottenham, to 5th place – cruelly missing out on Champions Continue reading
This year’s FIFA Under-20 World Cup, to be hosted in Turkey, starts on 21 June and Cuba will be participating in it for the first time in their history. In Group B with South Korea, Nigeria and Portugal – the national team have done tremendously well to make it to such a Continue reading
It’s the question on a majority of QPR fans’ lips, especially with the articles from the press this past week about Redknapp’s future at the Rangers. When one story broke about Redknapp wanting to leave, I started to follow this story just to see every paper and online Continue reading
So, Don Garber did it, he brought in an expansion team into New York City proper. The New York Yankees and English Premier League giant Manchester City bought the rights to Major League Soccer 20 (New York City FC). Of course the news of this has been very Continue reading
Mark Hughes has finally been confirmed as the new Stoke City manager but there seems to be a divide between those who think he’s a decent manager with a good track record (see Stoke Chairman Peter Coates’ comments) whilst others think the opposite. How does Continue reading
Football is important to me. It is not only a hobby of mine, but a life passion in a variety of forms like reading, playing and writing. My mother understood it, not because she is a football fan herself, but she realised how important it is to me. I had her brother to “thank” Continue reading
I’ve just read a story about the sacking of Roberto Mancini. This particular newspaper is not known for making outlandish comment, but the story refers to Manchester City’s ‘miserable season’. My immediate reaction as a supporter of a totally different City is to Continue reading
When Sunderland appointed Paolo Di Canio as Martin O’Neill’s replacement in March, it was always going to guarantee one thing: fireworks.
The controversial Italian boss was always a passionate, fiery, enigmatic kind of player and Continue reading
Atlético Madrid have enjoyed a superb Primera Division season this year. Currently sitting in third place, they have become an incredibly dangerous and powerful team, led by their star-striker Ramadel Falcao. It took them until November of this season to lose their first Continue reading
It was surely the biggest shock to modern football when Sir Alex Ferguson retired from Manchester United, the club he has managed for 26 years. Building from the bottom and creating a football club that would be recognised almost anywhere in the world. The man Continue reading
Recent headlines have all been about a certain Luis Suarez (apart from the astonishing news coming out of Old Trafford) and his subsequent bite on Branislav Ivanovic. However I pose the question whether in fact, Suarez’s ban can in fact be an advantage to Liverpool Continue reading
With the relegation battle hotting up after Aston Villa’s thrashing of Sunderland on Monday night, I thought I’d do a little summary of the cost of relegation from the Premier League seeing as many clubs and their fans will be fearing for the worst and what it could mean for Continue reading
The FA’s decision to implement goal line technology has finally put to bed years of debate over whether it should be introduced and the form it should take. There has been a lot of negativity around it, with claims that technology will slow the game down and that more Continue reading
Hawk-Eye goal line technology has understandably been a talking point in football for a few years now. With several did it/didn’t it scenarios where shots have been adjudged (or not) to have crossed the goal-line, the system has its reasons to be considered for use. Continue reading
Here’s a definitive list of things I’d rather do than go to a Scottish Premier League game under the now rejected 12-12-18 split;
- Lick Simon Weston’s elbows Continue reading