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3 Possible Reasons Behind Manchester United’s Poor Form

This article is a submission for the Soccerlens Football Writing Competition; to participate, please read the details here. Written by Andrei Dobrogeanu Last season Manchester United furiously rose to the top of the Premier League table within the first few weeks. They did it then by scoring a flurry of goals, playing beautiful football and…

Jan-Klaas Huntelaar – Who Will Sign Him Next Summer?

The past several days have been absolutely hectic in football, with Manchester United and Chelsea making most of the headlines. Mourinho’s departure was almost as shocking as Mike Dean’s performance and nearly as expected as Manchester United’s loss to Coventry while Avram Grant has shown that he is not really a football manager. But, just…

Manchester United 2-0 Chelsea – Ref Watch: Mike Dean

“They did not score any goals today. It was the referee who scored two goals for them.” He did not exactly say those exact words, but if he was still the manager of Chelsea today, this is more or less what Jose Mourinho might have said after the match. In truth, yesterday’s referee helped Manchester…

Chelsea’s Next Maestro is…?

Mourinho’s shocking departure has left one of the hottest managerial seats in football unoccupied. As the quality of Chelsea’s squad is immense and Abramovich’s chequebook is thicker than the latest Harry Potter book, it should come as no surprise if managers will form a queue to apply for the job at The Bridge. So this…

Ref Watch: Lubos Michel – Italy 0-0 France (Euro 2008 Qualifier)

The Italy-France game turned out to be the scrappy affair we had been expecting as both teams failed to produce anything special in the goal-less draw. With harsh words exchanged between the two sides before the game and the recent history between these two international powerhouses, the game was bound to be dull and tense….

Are Chelsea the new Newcastle United?

Mourinho blames them for not having won the Premier League this past season, while everyone associated with Newcastle blames them for not having performed well at any point in time over the past several years. Indeed the ominous injuries play a huge part in a team’s season and it seems that they will always haunt…

An argument for Hawk-Eye

Hawk-Eye – an invention of Paul Hawkins which uses strategically placed cameras to generate a 3D animation of the trajectory of an object – has been successfully used in tennis for the past 15 months. In football, this technology could be used to determine whether or not a ball has crossed a line, and tests…

Is Bent really worth more than Henry?

Over the past week many Arsenal fans have been shocked to hear that their ‘greatest ever’ was sold for the ‘miserable’ fee of £16.1m. Meanwhile the rest of England was equally shocked to hear that former Charlton striker Darren Bent commanded a higher transfer fee (£16.5m) than the Arsenal legend. And although it is obvious…

Ref Watch: Damir Skomina, Euro U21 Final

This article is an analysis of a referee’s performance during a game (based on my personal opinion). I watched the Holland vs Serbia European U-21 Championship final closely and took notes on how many good and bad calls the referee made and who was generally favored.

Analyzing Chelsea’s new transfer strategy

In stark contrast to vast spending sprees of the past four summers, Chelsea has decided not to bring in another set of overpriced superstars. They have instead focused on bringing good, but not spectacular, players in on free transfers. Naturally, many questions have been raised by this sudden change in the club’s transfer policy; however…