Lists on everything related to football.
Football rivalries are intense - football fans (normal, loving people in day-to-day life) take perverse pride in hating rival clubs, rival fans and rival players.
Sometimes...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 8 comments
Andy Greeves summed up present-day football’s predicament perfectly when he wrote in “modern footballers are holding clubs and fans hostage“:
Football...
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Written by Soccerlens. 22 comments
Today we are going to look at the all-time top scorers in the Premier League.
The Premier League has seen many players come and go since its inception in 1992. We certainly remember some and others never cross our minds again. Club teams constantly...
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Written by Graham Fisher. 13 comments
Ahead of tonight’s clash with England, we give you the lowdown on all things Belarus.
1. Alexander Hleb
The former Arsenal man was a Gunners favourite (at least until he started shooting his mouth off about the club...
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Written by Rob Parker. 5 comments
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 football’s other silly injuries.
1. Dave Beasant
The crazy keeper...
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Written by Rob Parker. 5 comments
The Daily Mail, if you choose to believe anything they write, reports today that QPR owner Flavio Briatore is eager to change the club’s name from Queens Park Rangers to Queens Park City to emphasise their London connection. Briatore has obviously...
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Written by Rob Parker. 2 comments
Who on earth would want to buy Newcastle United at the moment? That’s a good question. Here are 10 possible answers.
1. The fans
Before he officially put the club up for sale, Ashley reportedly challenged the Toon...
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Written by Rob Parker. 9 comments
New West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola was bound to want to make his own mark on the club, but few would have expected that the first person to leave would be the sponsor.
The Hammers’ £2.5 million a year backer, XL.com, has gone into...
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Written by Rob Parker. 9 comments
Robbie Keane joins Steven Gerrard, Dirk Kuyt, Daniel Agger and Pepe Reina as well as former Liverpool players Peter Crouch and Jerzey Dudek on the list of Liverpool players whose homes have been burgled in recent years.
Last year we...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 12 comments
Come on down! These days everyone wants to be taken over by a billionaire and then immediately get linked with players worth more than the entire debt of Africa. But how?
Ker-Ching! It’s easy! The Premier League title awaits, all you have...
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Written by Oliver Fowler. 10 comments
Every Bundesliga team has been jointly liable to run a youth academy since 2002, moreover, it is one of the eligibility criterias to obtain the club license. The annual operation is supervised by the DFB itself. Last year, an astonishing ~ €70 million...
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Written by Henrik Hegedus. 8 comments
They say that history repeats itself. In England’s case, stupidity repeats itself, ad nauseam.
You could drive yourself insane hypothesizing how England will line up against Croatia (doesn’t matter if players lack discipline...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 10 comments
So, the transfer deadline (August 31) has passed and the football market is now closed. Closed? Not quite. Indeed, while transfers from one club to another will have to wait until January to resume, teams may still sign players as free...
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Written by Marco Pantanella. 10 comments
Following Alan Curbishley’s departure from West Ham yesterday, his transfer policy at the club has come under increased scrutiny. Soccerlens has rounded up Curbishley’s...
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Football transfer fees were thought to be affected by the global credit crunch but that didn’t stop English clubs from smashing the English football transfer records twice in one evening as the clubs from Manchester bought Robinho...
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Written by Eddie Griffin. 25 comments
1. Manchester City as a new superpower
When Blues fans woke up yesterday morning they cannot have been expecting the rollercoaster day...
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Written by Rob Parker. 22 comments
In addition to our daily transfer news and rumours column, we also cover all the transfers happening in the Premier League. This summer we’re taking our coverage to the next level, and you can now track confirmed transfers for the following...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 17 comments
Who would win the Premier League? The Champions League? The FA Cup?
Would Manchester United and Chelsea still fight for the title? Will Arsenal and Liverpool be dumped out of Europe by Villa, Everton and Tottenham?
Which is the best...
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Written by Oliver Fowler. 18 comments
The predictions are divided into 5 categories - the press, the players, the game, the teams and everyone else (fans, agents, management). You’re welcome to add your own predictions in the comments, discuss the predictions I’ve made or come...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 24 comments
This summer (much like every summer before it) football sees a mad dash for the good and not-so-good footballers around the world which is reported on/fueled by the can-do-no-wrong-with-free-speech press and their always-telling-the-truth...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 27 comments
Up until the 2002 World Cup in South Korea/Japan, Asian football didn’t exactly get a great deal of attention. But, following South Korea’s run to the semifinals and Japan’s appearance in the final 16, the respect level for football in the region...
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Written by Eddie Griffin. 12 comments
A manager’s success is directly tied to the players he recruits, so naturally, the manager needs to make his money count. Clubs always have reservations about making money available to their manager, especially when players like David Nugent...
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Written by Max Zeger. 33 comments
Don’t call me Hugo any more. I’m English, don’t you know? So you have to change my name. At school, P.E. teachers insisted on branding me “Steckel”, although I suppose I should just be grateful I escaped that awful nom de plume...
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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 17 comments
I have written on this site before about the rise of Salisbury City football club.
As well as the remarkable achievements of the first team in the Blue...
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Written by Graham Fisher. 3 comments
Wayne Rooney has just been elected the ugliest player in the world, at least according to 33% of the...
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Written by Marco Pantanella. 50 comments
After the World’s Top Goalscorer of 2007, the IFFHS (International Federation of Football History & Statistics) has done the impossible:...
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Written by Marco Pantanella. 19 comments
“Soccer is a world made of numbers”. A phrase which would make any mathematician proud, with the eternal claim that you can find mathematics anywhere.
And where better to find numbers than Goal Totals: the International...
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Written by Marco Pantanella. 13 comments
It’s the end of the year. A popular time for various press publications to make “Best Of 2007″-type rankings.
The Times (UK) did the ...
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Written by Marco Pantanella. 29 comments
Few years, like 2007, can claim to have served as the launching platform for many of the talented youngsters football has to offer.
From Cristiano Ronaldo to Cesc Fàbregas, passing by Giovani Dos Santos and Bojan Krkic, through to Karim Benzema...
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Written by Marco Pantanella. 46 comments
Here are some notable quotes made during the past year. Each was stated by the named individual; however, my responses were created, and are not meant to represent the views of the individuals. Nor libel them in any way. This is both a factual and...
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Written by Steve Amoia. 15 comments
