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Standing Up for Football

We’ve all been there. It’s the last minute and your team is clinging on to a vital, undeserved win away from home. You stand and bellow support for your lads with their backs against the walls, frantically throwing themselves in front of every ball headed toward the goal to break your heart. Or stood on…

Soccerlens Podcast: Dissecting Premier League’s homegrown rule, Ade’s a riot and big match previews

Hello and welcome to episode 20 of the world famous ‘new look’ Soccerlens Podcast. Join ex-footballer Adrian Clarke and esteemed sports journalist Iain Spragg as they chew over all things football. What a week it’s been! We’ve seen UEFA give the green light for players to dive, Emmanuel Adebayor do his best to cause a…

Can Seattle Sounders win a debut double?

Seattle Sounders burst in through the saloon doors in March, chewing lazily on tobacco as they stood proud in front of the regulars and declared their intention to take Major League Soccer by storm. The old boys weren’t pleased, but had to respect the Sounders’ testicular fortitude. Columbus Crew scowled from a bar stool with…

Weekend Predictions: Chelsea to beat Tottenham, Manchester United to meet Manchester City, Liverpool to beat West Ham and more

It feels like the season has really begun now, the international break is well behind us, the Champions League & the Europa League are in full swing, and the big clashes are starting to come thick and fast. Here are my predictions for this weekend’s Premier League fixtures – make sure you add yours to…

Fantasy Football Week 5 – Hail the Unsung Heroes

Andy Reid, Jason Roberts, David Dunn. What do they all have in common? No, it isn’t that at regular intervals, their respective managers have prefixed the mentioning of their names with a string of expletives, bemoaning their inconsistency/fitness/existence. It isn’t even that they have, at some stage of their careers, been signed for a sum…

Get free tickets to Manchester United v Manchester City on Sunday

Watch Manchester United v Manchester City live online here. Update: The competition was won by Joseph Brown-Pobee and Mark Dobson-Hill – congratulations to the winners (both of whom came through Republik of Mancunia). It’s the Manchester derby between United and City on Sunday and we’ve got two pairs of tickets to give away, courtesy of…

Samuel Eto’o or Zlatan Ibrahimovic – That is the question

The upcoming Champions League tie between Inter and Barcelona provides an early season look as to who got the better deal in the transfer/swap of Eto’o and Ibrahimovic. This article analyses the footballing and financial implications of the transfers and the reasons behind the deal.

Football’s Going Home(-grown)

The Premier League have introduced a home-grown player rule and a limit on squad sizes – both of which will come into effect from next season.

The 20 Premier League clubs have voted to introduce the measures which will see all teams limited to a squad of 25 of which eight players must be ‘home-grown’.

Throw the Book at Arsenal Fans

Am I the only one who seems to think everyone in the country is missing something? At Eastlands on Sunday a steward was struck by missiles thrown by Arsenal’s fans, and left unconscious by the pitch-side for five minutes. A disgraceful act that none of us want to see in football I’m sure you’ll all…

Barcelona, Chelsea and Real Madrid CL favourites ahead of Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool

The Sporting Index traders have priced up the outright Champions League win index and have installed the two big Spanish sides as the favourites. Spain The current champions, Barcelona, did spread bettors a big favour last season, comfortably winning La Liga, as well as producing an assured performance to beat Man United in the final…