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World Cup News: England’s Ref Is A ‘Shameless Bastard’
It’s a Monday and we’re still in that tangible pre-tournament lull. As a result it’s a bit of a slow news day, but there are still some choice nuggets available for you perusal. Here’s the best of what today has to offer up World Cup-wise… (If you would like to subscribe to this column –…
Transfer Rumours: Real Madrid Enter The Race For Cesc Fabregas?
Monday Monday, can’t trust that day. The new week has brought with it a flurry of fresh transfer rumours, some perfectly feasible, some a little dubious and some completely and utterly nonsensical! Brilliant! It seems that the relentless speculation surrounding the future of Cesc Fabregas is showing no sign of dying down whilst the Spaniard…
World Cup News: James Milner Jinxed By New Nike Ad?
Today’s Soccerlens World Cup column is brought to you by the number ’4′ and by the word ‘curse’. There’s an awful lot, and I mean an awful lot of injury news doing the rounds this weekend. Holland are the latest side to suffer the wrath of the dreaded Pre-World Cup casualty curse, after Arjen Robben…
Transfer Rumours (4th June 2010): Yaya Toure Is ‘Desperate’ To Join Man City
After yesterday’s revelations, I’m slightly surprised we haven’t got a few more ‘Liverpool exodus’ stories this morning, but I’m pretty sure we won’t have to wait too long before the floodgates crash open. Instead the main transfer story centres around a man that has been linked with a move to the Premier League more than…
Transfer Rumours (3rd June 2010): Real Madrid Make Steven Gerrard Top Target
Another day, another fresh wave of transfer rumours sweeps across cyberspace, and there’s some biggies this morning! It looks like Liverpool may have to brace themselves for a huge double blow over the coming days, with both two of the biggest names at the club set to walk out if sources are to be believed….
Barcelona Make Formal Offer For Cesc Fabregas
Barcelona have confirmed that they have entered ‘official’ negotiations with Arsenal over the transfer of their influential captain Cesc Fabregas. The Catalan giants have submitted a written offer which is believed to be in the region of €40 million (£33 million) for Fabregas, after initially entering formal discussions with Arsenal earlier today – the day…
England 2010 World Cup Squad: The Final Cut
Although it is yet to be officially announced by the Football Association (at the time of publication), it would appear that the seven awkward “it’s not you, it’s me…” phone calls have been made and – after several hours of water-torture style press leakage – we can at last piece together the final draft of…
The Death Of A Football Club – Crystal Palace Have Three Hours To Save Themselves
Championship side Crystal Palace FC will face liquidation this afternoon if the business group attempting to buy the club cannot reach an agreement by 15:00 BST. CPFC 2010 (a consortium of local London businessmen headed by Palace supporters) have agreed terms on a deal to purchase the club outright – but will not compete the…
Luka Modric Signs New Six-Year Deal With Tottenham
Tottenham have received a huge boost ahead of next season’s Champions League exploits with the news that highly-rated play-maker Luka Modric has committed his long-term future to the club, signing a new six-year contract that will keep him at White Hart Lane until 2016. Modric, who joined Tottenham from Dinamo Zagreb in 2008, has scotched…
‘England Expects’ – And That’s The Problem
It’s started again. In fact it started about a month-and-a-half ago. The now seemingly omnipresent ‘En-Ger-Land’ white-van jingo-jango has farted it’s way back onto the front and back pages of all the tabloids, television commercials and supermarket shelves – even the sodding cakes are getting nauseatingly patriotic. The bi-annual (don’t think for a minute that…
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