Chris Wright
Chris Wright (b.1984 -) Regular contributor for Soccerlens and news editor over on Who Ate All The Pies. Lifelong Nottingham Forest fan, so therefore I have no idea what real football looks like.
The Round-Up: Messi Cleans Up, Man Utd Fancy Tea And Busquets
After scoring an astonishing 60 goals for club and country in 2010, Lionel Messi has rather unsurprisingly been named the inaugural (it’s the first time FIFA’s Player of the Year gong has been with amalgamated with France Football’s trinket) winner of the Ballon d’Or at a glitzy gala bash in Zurich.
Man Utd Cut Short King Kenny’s Second Honeymoon
As it turns out, Liverpool’s returning regent, ‘King’ Kenny Dalglish, enjoyed approximately 30 seconds of unwavering clamour and adulation on his return to the dugout – which surely amounts to one of the shortest-lived managerial hooneymoon periods since OPTA records began - thanks chiefly to Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov‘s early (and supremely consumate) rendition…
The Round-Up: Will Ancelotti Be Out For A Duck In January?
Having staved off Roman’s wrath for the time being with a thumping 7-0 victory over rudderless Ipswich at the weekend, Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is apparently about to be handed the necessary funds to finally land AC Milan starlet Alexandre Pato before the January transfer window ebbs to a close in three weeks’ time.
Roy Hodgson Leaves Liverpool ‘By Mutual Consent’
Liverpool have posted an update on their official website to confirm that Roy Hodgson has left the club ‘by mutual consent’ and that Kenny Dalglish has been put in temporary charge for Sunday’s third-round FA Cup tie against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Hodgson himself has posted a statement on the site: “Being asked to…
The Round-Up: Which Sevilla Striker Will Liverpool ‘Break The Bank’ For?
Morning all. Throughout January, Soccerlens are going to be bringing you a daily round-up of the morning’s various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we’ll have it covered. Here’s this morning’s batch. Liverpool to ‘break the bank’ for Sevilla striker… Reports emanating from Spain…
Roy Hodgson’s Liverpool Future Hangs In The Balance
As touched on in this morning’s news round up, the general consensus emanating from the nation’s press circle this morning was that Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson is now surviving on borrowed time at Anfield and developments this afternoon have done nothing to help truncate that particular line of conjecture. After suffering the ninth league defeat…
The Round-Up: Edin Dzeko Stranded At Heathrow, Arsenal Target Porto Goal Machine
Morning all. Throughout January Soccerlens are going to be bringing you a daily round-up of the morning’s various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we’ll have it covered. Here’s this morning’s batch. Dzeko deal reaches terminal velocity… After teetering on the edge of a…
Soccerlens Top 10 Transfers Of 2010
Unsurprisingly, cash-gorged Manchester City have dominated the footballing transfer market in 2010, shunting a combined total of somewhere up around the €350 million mark in fees and transfers into the global market between January 1st and the present day as owner Sheikh Mansour continues to feed his foray into capitalism on a gargantuan scale. There…
Biggest Winners Of 2010: Barca, Bale, An Octopus And… John O’Shea?
Alas, ’tis that time of year again when thoughts invariably turn to the ‘new’ and stock is taken of the twelve months that played out hence – and we forthright bods at Soccerlens are no different. As we yet again slide effortlessly over the cusp of a footballing decade and into 2011, we thought it…
Biggest Losers Of 2010: Rooney, Rafa And A Particular Strand Of DNA
Alas, ’tis that time of year again when thoughts invariably turn to the ‘new’ and stock is taken of the twelve months that played out hence – and we forthright bods at Soccerlens are no different. As we yet again slide effortlessly over the cusp of a footballing decade and into 2011, we thought it…
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