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Dalglish Gone As Liverpool Count Heavy Losses

The Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has left Anfield after talks with the club’s American owners. Dalglish had traveled to the US to meet with the Liverpool owners, where he presented his end-of-season review, outlined his plans for next season and answered questions from John Henry and Tom Werner about the missed targets this season. The…

Ferguson’s big United decision this summer

Manchester United’s best performance in the 2011/2012 season was on Sunday, 28th August 2011, when they walloped an injury-ridden and pre-panic-buy Arsenal 8-2. This standout performance wasn’t a blip. In their first five competitive games of the season, United won all 5, including their best performance against Manchester City (although it was the Community Shield,…

How Football Manager can improve your FIFA gameplay – and vice versa

The two most popular football simulation games – Football Manager and FIFA, offer very contrasting experiences to football fans. And yet you will find that there is plenty to learn from one game that can be applied to the other, and vice versa. Despite the current trend of simulating real life matches, you’re not going…

Three things Pakistani football can learn from Euro 2012

The 2012 European Championships will kick off this summer in Poland and Ukraine. The Euro 2012 betting hugely favours Spain and Germany, but beyond the favourites and indeed beyond the 16 teams competing at Euro 2012, there are plenty of footballing lessons for Pakistan and Pakistani football to learn from, and hopefully apply to our…

The next Chelsea manager should be … John Terry

Regardless of whether Chelsea beat Napoli tonight, and regardless of whether Chelsea qualify for the Champions League or not this season, the signs are crystal clear. The next Chelsea manager must either be extremely special (even Mourinho would be hard-pressed to fix the current Chelsea state, and he’s not coming), or it needs to be…

Five things Liverpool can improve on – apart from points

“What other areas are there to improve on – apart from points?” From any other manager, these would their famous last words. From Kenny Dalglish, however, it’s merely an affirmation that Liverpool as a club has improved from last season. Before we’re accused of taking this out of context, here’s what King Kenny said in…

Chelsea fire Andre Villas Boas as Abramovich backs player power

Roman Abramovich has sacked André Villas-Boas after a string of poor results that has left Chelsea fifth in the league table. Saturday’s 1-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion left Chelsea three points behind Arsenal with 11 games to go. Villas-Boas’s assistant, Roberto Di Matteo, has been appointed the new first team coach until the end…

Should football introduce the ‘Vanishing Spray’?

The ‘vanishing spray’ is used by the referee to mark 10 yards between the ball and the wall at free-kicks. This line is a clear indicator of where the opposition teams should be standing before the free-kick is taken and was introduced in an effort to stop the attacking team gaining advantage by moving closer…

John Terry – Good Or Bad For England’s Euro 2012 Campaign?

The extraordinary delays in a resolution to the Terry-Ferdinand affair have already resulted in the wholly unnecessary cop-out by the FA and the Premier League in asking Chelsea and QPR to forego handshakes in their recent league clash. The pointlessness of team handshakes apart, the worst that could have happened would have been the whole…

adidas is all in – and why you should be too

We may be going into 2012 but with PR agencies it still feels like 2006 at times. I started Soccerlens.com way back in April 2006 – and one of the lasting memories of the last five and a half years has been the treatment of football bloggers by PR agencies promoting their clients. I say…