Archive for September 2008

AaB 0-3 Manchester United – 30 September 2008 – UEFA Champions League – Live Blog

Thank you, Rob Styles.

AaB 0-3 Manchester United (Rooney 22′, Berbatov 55′, 79′) Stadium: Aalborg Stadion, Denmark Competition: UEFA Champions League, Group E Date: 30 September 2008 Kickoff: 18:45 GMT, 14:45 ET Manchester United overpowered AaB, 3-0, in a spirited Champions League clash! Soccerlens brought you the action live! Click below for the live blog!

A fresh view on the Spurs sack race: sack the board!

Musings of an ex-manager

My article on Spurs’ dire current situation got you all talking yesterday. Today a fresh viewpoint on the situation has been provided by the shy and retiring Terry Venables. The ex-Spurs boss has made it clear that the majoritiy of the blame lies with the board as far as he is concerned. El Tel told…

Top 10 daft football injuries

A bitch of an injury

Following the news that Liam Lawrence is a doubt for Stoke City’s match against Portsmouth after tripping over his dog, we look at some of the silliest football injuries: 1. Dave Beasant The crazy keeper ruled himself out of action for two-and-a-half months after dropping a jar of salad cream on his feet during the…

Premier League club for sale. Applications from overseas multi-billionaires will be particularly welcome.

Wipe out world debt or buy Manchester City?

What is the lot of a football club owner in the English Premier League in this day and age? Well, if you are Abu Dhabi United or Roman Abramovich, then you are in it for the fun and kudos of owning a football club. Neither of these two owners are in the game to try…

Newcastle United should have won, Tottenham and Man City deserved penalties, Man Utd didn’t

The old adage that you don’t get the rub of the green when you are down at the bottom of the league will have a resonance with the Premier League strugglers. No less than three of the bottom four are favoured by the decisions of the Right Result team this week. Heading the list, amid…

Video Highlights: Portsmouth 2-0 Tottenham, Arsenal 1-2 Hull, Newcastle 1-2 Blackburn and more

English Premier League video highlights from the 27-28 September 08 matches:

Champions League Matchday 2: Predictions

Needs a new logo...

Matchday 2 of the 08/09 UEFA Champions League will be played out on 30 Sep / 1 Oct – we have the head-to-head records for the clubs involved, a look at the predictions for each group and the highlights going into this round of the Champions League group stages. Did you know? Celtic have failed…

Bring in compulsory history lessons for Italian footballers

Abbiatti: Stupid and/or naive

That is an overstatement obviously, but Italian football does seem to be hotbed of naive footballers with some extreme political views. I am not closely enough involved in Italian football to be able to prescribe a solution, but I can certainly detect a problem. AC Milan keeper Christian Abbiati is the latest player to declare…

Who would you fire from Tottenham?

The Spurs sack race

Spurs’ woeful start to the season has heaped pressure on two key figures at White Hart Lane. The players might be taking some of the flak, but they are not likely to lose their jobs over the team’s current relegation form. No, it is the off-field personalties who face the chop. Fairly obviously the man…

Takeover Talk: SA for Newcastle, Chinese for Tottenham, American for Sunderland, no one for Portsmouth, Everton or Liverpool

For Money, not Football...

After the Manchester City takeover (and the mad chase for players on the last day), some Premier League club owners came out with their hats in their hands looking for investment or if they were lucky, a big pay day. In the last month or so, 6 Premier League clubs (Newcastle United, Tottenham, Sunderland, Liverpool,…


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