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Darren Bent Can Be Aston Villa’s New Dwight Yorke
The January transfer window has received one of its biggest shocks in recent times as Sunderland striker Darren Bent has handed in a written transfer request in order to sanction an £18million move to Aston Villa. If this had been mooted last summer it wouldn’t have seemed that much of a shock. Villa consolidated themselves…
The Round-Up: Which Sevilla Striker Will Liverpool ‘Break The Bank’ For?
Morning all. Throughout January, Soccerlens are going to be bringing you a daily round-up of the morning’s various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we’ll have it covered. Here’s this morning’s batch. Liverpool to ‘break the bank’ for Sevilla striker… Reports emanating from Spain…
Soccerlens Top 10 Transfers Of 2010
Unsurprisingly, cash-gorged Manchester City have dominated the footballing transfer market in 2010, shunting a combined total of somewhere up around the €350 million mark in fees and transfers into the global market between January 1st and the present day as owner Sheikh Mansour continues to feed his foray into capitalism on a gargantuan scale. There…
Premier League Transfer Preview: January 2011
With the transfer window now ready and open for business Soccerlens looks at the possible comings and goings of all twenty Premier League clubs. Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger has already confirmed that The Gunners have no intention of strengthening during the winter period but in all honesty even the club’s fans can concur with one…
Premier League Clubs in Crisis – Part 3: Which Players Should Aston Villa Buy in January?
The third club to come under the microscope in this series is Aston Villa. Gerard Houllier has had a tough job to do since taking over from Martin O’Neill. Injuries have severely affected this club and have given Houllier no choice but to call on several, untested youths. Giving credit where credit is due, it…
Winter Weather Proves That Premier League Should Put Fans First at Christmas
Last weekend snowy weather conditions played havoc with the Premier League fixture list, next week will probably be similar. The recent inclement weather does raise one important issue though as far as the all important Christmas period is concerned; Why does the EPL make fans travel the length and breadth of the country when fixtures…
Premier League Sack Race: Odds For Every Manager
Who will be the next manager to get the sack in the English Premier League? Are Avram Grant’s days numbered? Does Wenger have to win a trophy? Can Roy Hodgson turn Liverpool around? You wait around all season for the first EPL manager to be sacked and then two happen within the space of a…
FA Vow To Probe ‘Dark’ Violence After Birmingham Derby
Judging by the considerable hike in both steward and police presence at St. Andrews (over 500 West Midlands officers were drafted in for the occasion), it’s pretty clear that the relevant authorities were envisaging a bit of a feisty affair between second city rivals Birmingham and Aston Villa in the Carling Cup last night –…
Aston Villa 2-4 Arsenal Goal Highlights (27 November 2010)
Aston Villa succumb to their first home defeat of the season at the hands of Arsenal. Andriy Arshavin, Samir Nasri, Marouanne Chamakh and Jack Wilshere scored the four for the Gunners and Ciaran Clark scored the two for the Villains. Clark and Chamakh earned yellow cards for themselves. Aston Villa 0-1 Arsenal Arshavin, 39′ Aston…
The Curious Case of England
It was a coming together of two world powers, so to speak. An England side that seems to have lost their way took on a France side that seems to be finding theirs. Both were still in the process of trying to blot out the same caustic memory of a depressing World Cup. Since June’s…
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