Choosing Liverpool
In Mauritius, children start choosing their favourite football team at around the age of nine. The choice is simple really: Manchester United or Liverpool FC. Sure, there are some odd ones who would have chosen Arsenal, Leeds or Newcastle..but they were always a minority. And perhaps now, Chelsea has entered the equation-due to their recent…
Deserving a second chance?
Joey Barton’s goal on Tuesday evening against West Brom meant many things. Not only did it help give Newcastle their first win under caretaker manager Joe Kinnear, but it was Barton’s first goal since his jail sentence and the formal ban given to him by the football association. Now the ban is over Barton can…
Liverpool fans ready to takeover from Hicks and Gillett
English Liverpool’s fan group, ShareLiverpoolFC, issued an eight month countdown today to the final deadline for club owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. The group announced that when the financial crunch comes, ShareLiverpoolFC will bid to takeover the club. ShareLiverpoolFC believes that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which the Americans owe to GBP 350…
Will Real Madrid Win Anything This Season?
Paul Macdonald over at Goal.com has a list of 10 reasons why he thinks Real Madrid will win nothing this year. It’s a well-written (albeit biased) article, let’s look at his 10 reasons and whether he is right or wrong: 1) The Challenge is stronger. Madrid glanced down from the top for almost the entire…
Chinese footballer banned 10 years for attacking referee
A Chinese player has been banned for 10 years and another for five years after attacking a referee who showed one of their teammates a second yellow card. The incident occurred during a match between Huantai Classic FC and Zibo Industrial Institution (ZII) on October 18, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said. According to reports,…
Barry Glendenning: Modern Football’s Loving Sceptic
“In most ways I am content not to know such information, and to think of sportswriting not as a real profession but more as an agreeable frame of mind, a way of going about things rather than things you exactly do or know. A reasonable guess is a source of pleasure, since it makes me…
What would it take for you to leave your dream club?
The majority of us have one. A personal vendetta with a man you’ve never met. A man who could not have done much worse had he slept with your wife. These are the players that rinse your club for every last penny. The players that see your club as a stepping stone or proclaim their…
F**K Football!
Whether you’re a Gooner, a Geordie, or a Kop, the most obsessed of us lot all have one thing in common — at one point or another, we’ve all been hurt and betrayed by our beloved football club before. It’s the kind of unparalleled hurt that you’ll only wish upon the worst of your enemies…
Manchester United sign sponsorship deal with Hublot
Manchester United has signed a new multi-million pound sponsorship deal with Swiss watch manufacturers Hublot. Hublot, which provided the timing at Euro 2008, has paid a reported £4m for a three-year partnership deal with the Champions League holders. It joins Saudi Telecom, Budweiser, and Seoul Metropolitan Government as sponsors who have committed themselves to Manchester…
A compelling argument for video referees
I’m probably the biggest proponent of the video ref alive. We all know how things are. Refs are only human. Expecting them to get all their decisions right the way they have to make them, in a matter of seconds, sometimes even less, while having to run around the field and keep an eye on…
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