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Michael Owen To Sign With Manchester United. (Yes, You Read That Correctly.)
By: chris |
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And no, it’s not FC United of Manchester as some would believe. It’s the Red Devils. Old Trafford. Three time defending Premier League champions. That one.
Two days ago it was thought that Michael Owen would be signing for a team which was aiming for the Europa League, not world domination. His stint at Newcastle was [...]
Tags: Carlos Tevez, Cristiano Ronaldo, English Premier League, Karim Benzema, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Michael Owen, Real Madrid, Ronaldo, World FootballYet Another Reason For British Clubs To Spend Obscene Money
By: chris | 4 Comments
Most, even the Brits among us, have at one point or another decried the excessive, borderline loony, transfer fees among Premier League clubs, and particularly those for Brits. Tottenham was a nice example last year, doubling David Bentley’s value overnight before loaning Robbie Keane to Rafa & Co. for six months, netting a free £5m.
Well [...]
Puma Bows to the Power of the People
By: chris | 12 Comments
Have you ever seen your team’s new kit and felt the inexplicable sudden urge to go shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch, or some other less-than-stylish retail outlet? Chances are you have, and despite you being the one who’ll shell out the big bucks for the kit and will be staring at it for the next [...]
Category: Dutch EredivisieESPN Are Anti-Big 4; Name Hull City Preseason Prem Favorites.
By: chris | 15 Comments
ESPN’s football coverage is, shall we say, sub-par at best - which is fine, they do the others well enough. The economic recession forced them to, presumably, fire all of their Soccernet copy editors, resulting in strange typo after strange typo. And now they’ve got more faith in Frazier Campbell than we do, putting Hull [...]
Category: English Premier LeagueNewcastle Goes Up For Sale; Continues To Torment Supporters.
By: chris | No Comments
After the mild surprise that Kaka cost quite a bit less than expected, we have the news of another footballing institution whose price has dropped. A lot. And that’s Newcastle United, a club which has been put up for sale by Mike Ashley much to the delight of NUFC supporters. Just not exactly by traditional [...]
Kaka: Officially The Newest Galactico & Most Expensive Player In History.
By: chris | 21 Comments
It’s official: Kaka has signed for Real Madrid (pretty self-explanatory above even if you don’t speak Spanish). The fee has yet to be officially announced but there’s little question it’s the highest fee ever paid for a footballer (assumed somewhere in the €70m+ range) - an honor Florentino Perez has pushed through how many times [...]
Category: Spain La LigaCeltic’s Hiring Standards Do Not Include The Common Man
By: chris | 2 Comments
Genius find from Matt over at the Celtic Offside.
The Hoops are currently looking for a manager. The search hasn’t gone spectacularly well - particularly if you ask Tony Adams - so a certain Celtic fan and online forum member decided to toss his hat into the ring. He whipped up a letter teeming with [...]
Transfer Talk: The ‘I Belong To Jebus’ Edition.
By: chris | 5 Comments
There’s been a mild bit of speculation as to the future of one Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite the last 24 hours or so. Just a bit.
The latest is that Milan will happily sell their prized Brazilian for the GDP of a small country. A sum which Florentino Perez & Co. are more than chuffed [...]
Ladies & Gents, Your 08/09 Golden Boot Winner: Diego Forlan.
By: chris | 4 Comments
Everybody began the Atletico year talking about Kun Aguero. We did. And rightfully so. But nose into a discussion about Madrid’s second team and you’ll hear them gushing on one name - and it ain’t Kun. It’s Diego Forlan, the 2008/09 ESM Golden Boot winner for the second time in five years and perhaps the [...]
Category: Spain La LigaOne Transfer Saga Down, One To Go In Milan.
By: chris | 2 Comments
That noise you heard after Carlo Ancelotti stepped down from his post in Milan was the silence brought about by nary a soul batting an eyelash. Long expected, Berlusconi & Co. let him go by ‘mutual consent’ and kicked open the door for him to join Chelsea - which he has done today on a [...]
Tags: Carlo Ancelotti, Chelsea, Inter, Leonardo, Milan, Roman Abramovich, Serie A, World Football, Zlatan IbrahimovicFrance Has A New King: Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux.
By: chris | 6 Comments
Lyon lost their kung-fu grip on the Ligue 1 trophy some ways back and a new champion was always inevitable, but that doesn’t make it less of a story. Bordeaux beat Caen 1-0 to take home the title and send their opponents tumbling down to Ligue 2. Their first title in 10 years and the [...]
Category: French Ligue 1Rangers Fans Fool Celtic Fans With “Operation Tango”
By: Daryl | 30 Comments
We all know how Rangers and Celtic fans feel about each other. But this is just mean.
Category: Scottish Premier LeaguePhoto: Waving Goodbye to Newcastle United
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
Full time at Villa Park yesterday, and a Villa fan waves goodbye to his Newcastle counterparts. The two probably won’t be meeting again for a while.
Painful stuff for Newcastle fans, who have my sympathies.
You could argue that the Toon were relegated because of Mark Viduka’s disallowed goal vs Fulham, or Damien Duff’s bad bad luck [...]
Category: English Premier LeagueAn Italian Whirlwind Of Emotion
By: chris | 10 Comments
The weekend began with the best of intentions as Paolo Maldini headed for his San Siro swansong. But when teams are relegated - or pushed to the very brink of relegation - things tend to go downhill very quickly.
Take, for example, Genoa and Torino, who embarked on a full out brawl following the former’s 3-2 [...]
Paolo Maldini Says His San Siro Goodbye
By: chris | 14 Comments
We haven’t had a retirement this big since Zinedine Zidane in 2006 and, let’s hope, it should go much better. And were it not for the stage of Zidane’s retirement, it could be said this is much bigger.
Paolo Maldini has been playing for Milan since 1985, which is nothing short of remarkable. But what’s [...]
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