Ahmed Bilal
Sports Editor
Hill-Wood: “Fabregas might stay, he might go, I have no idea”
Ahmed Bilal • May 27 2010Fabregas moving to Barcelona is by no means a done deal – Arsenal will presumably look for both a suitable fee and a nailed-on squad replacement before allowing the Spanish…
Mourinho: No one beat Chelsea and Barcelona like Inter
Ahmed Bilal • May 19 2010Jose Mourinho, speaking to the press before the Bayern Munich v Inter Milan Champions League final. On the importance of the game: “This game is the most important in the…
The real reason Fabregas wants to go to Barcelona
Ahmed Bilal • May 19 2010So, it’s damn near official now – Fabregas wants to leave Arsenal for Barcelona. Arsenal fans will say they saw it coming miles away (it’s by far the longest-running transfer…
Ian Holloway joins Football Manager
Ahmed Bilal • May 12 2010Today sees a world first as one of the most famous faces in football management, Ian Holloway, becomes football’s only virtual manager allowing anyone to call upon his expertise, quirks…
Why Chelsea won the title and United, Liverpool and Arsenal didn’t
Ahmed Bilal • May 10 2010Hello readers. I refrained from writing about the title race until it was done and dusted – and there’s plenty to talk about, from pre-season predictions to key battles where…
Manchester United – six in a row
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 22 2010Debt is evil. Glazers brought debt to United. Therefore, Glazers are evil. United may not have the best marketing (Madrid, Barcelona and Arsenal trump everyone in that department) but they…
Vote For The Soccerlens Podcast!
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 24 2010As I said earlier today, only titles (and awards) count in football. You may disagree (especially if your team wears red, pretends to play in pretty triangles and don’t like…
Titles aren’t everything, but only titles count
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 22 2010A friend asked me this question right after the Inter-Barca first leg: If Barcelona don’t get to the final, lose the league title to Madrid and Argentina bomb at the…
Soccerlens turns 4
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 4 2023Soccerlens turns 4 today. When I started out in 2006, this was one of a dozen or so ideas that I had been playing with at the time, and at…
Adebayor is the … Power Horse?
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 19 2010Signing Emmanuel Adebayor to be the face of an energy drink whose name signifies ‘hard work’ is akin to hiring Carlos Tevez as the poster child for a teaching English…
Email: I would like to join Arsenal FC…
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 9 2010We get one of these emails every week it seems, where a young footballer (invariably from Africa, although not always from Nigeria) asks us to ‘give him a chance’ and…
FM 2010 Patch 10.3
Ahmed Bilal • Mar 13 2010The mid-season data update plus final patch for the 2010 edition of Football Manager is now available. If you’ve got the game through Steam, fire up your Steam client and…
Anderson on Manchester United and Brazil, minus sensationalism
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 23 2010Manchester United fans who saw Nani’s brief resurgence – the final flickering of a dying flame or the spark that would light a raging fire, depending on your point of…
Arsenal in 2005 and Arsenal in 2010
Ahmed Bilal • Apr 5 2023If you believe what Arsene Wenger says – if Arsene Wenger believes what Arsene Wenger says – then contrary to predictions, Arsenal’s title challenge is NOT over. Today’s game against…
Arsenal v Chelsea v Manchester United – analysis of remaining Premier League fixtures
Ahmed Bilal • Feb 11 2010With all the talk about Arsenal’s last 13 games being easier than those of Manchester United’s and Chelsea’s, I’ve pulled up a list of remaining Premier League fixtures for the…