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Best Football Boots of 2011

Holiday season is nearby and the season is getting more and more interesting as Real Madrid finally have the upper hand on Barcelona heading into the El Clasico and in the English Premier League, Manchester United is yet again leading the chasing pack but this time behind Manchester City. In Germany, Bayern Munich are now…

Write off Barcelona at your peril: The European champions show their worth at the Santiago Bernabeu

Saturday’s El Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid lived up to all expectations; there was passion, spell-bounding skill and goals – the only thing missing was the heavily anticipated Madrid victory. Pep Guardiola’s European champions are not ready to hand over the Primera Division crown to their bitter rivals just yet, as an Alexis Sanchez…

An Arsenal Christmas – gifts for Arsenal fans

Holiday season is approaching and it’s time to get presents for your loved ones. To get you a head-start in the decision to buy present for a Gunners fan, lets get you through some of the Arsenal merchandise: Personally Signed Merchandise Our friends at ICONS.com have a huge collection of signed merchandise. The items are…

Why Modern Footballers Are Losing It

During his 1990s assault on celebrity culture, Paul Kaye creation Dennis Pennis battled his way to the front of the media scrum surrounding Some Like It Hot actor Tony Curtis, ageing gracefully on the arm of a pneumatic blonde, at a film premiere. ‘My name’s Dennis, man,’ he explained, having caught Curtis’ eye. ‘I specialise in making celebrities look ridiculous… but I don’t think I’ll bother this time.’ Immediately spinning on his heel, Pennis leaves the date stifling a giggle while Curtis struggles to fix a recovery stare on the middle distance.

Top Christmas Football Deals

The best part about holiday shopping is the amount of discounts you can find. It is very important to go around the market before buying something because you never know, you might find it for cheaper elsewhere. Keeping that in mind, I looked around for quality presents with good discounts and picked, what I thought,…

El Clasico Video Preview: Lionel Messi, Crisitano Ronaldo, Audi and ESPN

While Neymar and everybody else thinks Lionel Messi is the best player in the world, you have Cristiano Ronaldo voting for himself, Messi-haters voting for Xavi and Xavi himself voting for Paul Scholes (which, in a nutshell, tells you all there is to say about ‘votes’). But the best part about El Clasico this season…

Betting Preview: Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham and United to catch up with City

This weekend, the big teams have a chance to catch up with the Premier League leaders Manchester City, and you can get great betting odds for United, Arsenal and co. to cut down on the lead and make the title race more interesting. Manchester United v Wolves Manchester United have endured a horrendous week, crashing…

Premier League Preview: Arsenal and Chelsea fight to catch up with Tottenham and Manchester City

With 15 points separating the top five teams in the English Premier League, the race for a top four place is well and truly on. If you bet on football, you’ll know that Manchester City are still favourites for the league title but with a tough set of fixtures ahead of them, things can change…

Cashing In On Fan Support

Before football became an ‘integrated leisure experience’ (thank you, FA Blueprint for the Future of Football), deciding to go to the game required nothing more than a pat of your pockets. Keys? Wallet? Right, I’m off.

Retro Football Kits

Throughout history, people have been kicking a ball but the earliest scientific evidence suggest that it was an exercise from a military manual in the second and third BC in China – it was called Cuju. Modern football took years in the making after the Chinese forgot about cuju. In 1872, the first ever international…