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Weekend Predictions: Manchester United to beat Chelsea, Everton to beat Manchester City?
The English Premier League enters a pivotal phase this weekend, with several matches that could decide the fate of the title, the European place(s) and relegation spots in the next 4 days (if you include Tuesday’s match between Manchester City and Tottenham). Last weekend we looked at the Castrol EPL Predictor and used it to…
Highest Football Club Wages
Player transfer fees and their larger than life wage bills are a common topic of discussion for a football fan of today. From Wayne Rooney threatening to quit to oil-rich owners going on shopping sprees, the footballers have now become spoilt and they now know that their high demands will be met at their current club or…
What can Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham expect if they sign Ashley Young?
With his contract up in the summer of 2012, Villa’s ‘star man’ and England international Ashley Young is hotly tipped to leave the club after a disappointing season for the club under Gerard Houllier. The question is, is he really Villa’s star man and how sorely would he be missed were he to leave. The…
Why Liverpool and Manchester United stars should team up for England
Castrol data shows that Liverpool’s £35 million striker Andy Carroll deserves his place alongside Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney in Fabio Capello’s England attack, netting an impressive 11 Premier League goals in 1,712 minutes of action this season. While Rooney’s place in the Three Lions’ first 11 is set in stone under Capello, the second striking…
Stewart Downing’s half a million pound deal with adidas
Aston Villa winger Stewart Downing’s half a million pound secret deal with adidas was revealed in court during a trial of his former agent in a case of fraud. He signed the deal in 2005 when he was playing for Middlesbrough to receive £100,000 a year plus VAT and performance based bonuses for three years….
Premier League Predictions: Manchester United to beat Chelsea?
Today’s Premier League Predictions are brought to you by Scoreboard – an interactive Premier League predictions TV show + game hosted on Facebook that’s set to take the football predictions world by storm – check them out here. We’ve been busy predicting the future this week, looking at the Premier League title race, the Champions…
Money Talks: Analysing The 20 Richest Football Clubs
When Deloitte release their annual list of ‘Richest Football Clubs’, there’s plenty of debate on English football’s earning power, the individual TV deals negotiated by Real Madrid and Barcelona, Manchester United’s position at the top of the Premier League food chain, insane amounts of debt in the game, and so on. I thought it would…
The Round-Up: Jose Mourinho Is Too Old For This Sh*t!
According to the Daily Mirror, coach Jose Mourinho is ‘prepared to quit’ Real Madrid at the end of the season, after reaching the end of his tether with sporting director Jorge Valdano – whom our Portuguese protagonist deems to not be doing his job entirely efficiently.
Darren Bent: Avid Mercenary Or Victim Of English Hypocrisy?
As you’ve probably been made aware by now, a footballer who essentially only excels at one very basic aspect of the game, i.e. kicking the ball the way he is facing, moved clubs for an obscene amount of money yesterday – a rather straight-forward transaction that has since incurred several more intense levels of searing…
The Round-Up: The Great Big Darren Bent Transfer Roundabout
As you’ve probably heard by now, Sunderland striker Darren Bent, presumably miffed at having his ‘big fish…’ credentials stolen away from him by new-signing Asamoah Gyan, handed in a transfer request at the Stadium of Light yesterday afternoon in a bid to push through a move to lowly Aston Villa.
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