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Why Arsenal should keep Fabregas for one more year

Today’s stories of ‘Arsenal likely to sell Fabregas to Barcelona’ are founded on this cute little exchange between Dan Roan (BBC) and his Arsenal source: When asked about Barcelona’s transfer offer for Cesc Fabregas, the senior Arsenal official said: “The offer was made formally in writing to our chief executive (Ivan Gazidis), and we said…

Why Barcelona Beat Manchester United in This Year’s Champion’s League Final

FC Barcelona and Manchester United FC went to battle at Wembley for the 2010/2011 Champions League on 28 May, the Spanish giants running the English champions ragged in a 3-1 victory. It’s now not so hard to believe just how comprehensive their victory was, but before the game, bookies and pundits were arguing that this…

Manchester United enter the race to sign Alexis Sanchez

It seemed a foregone conclusion this time last week that Alexis Sanchez would be ending his fairytale stay at Udinese to seek pastures new in Catalonia with European Champions Barcelona. However, reports emanating today from various British outlets claim that Manchester United have entered the fray to sign the multi-talented Chilean international Although there were…

Scoring Stats – European Goal Trends

When we first examined the most important marksmen in the Big Four leagues, we looked at which players in Europe were the most crucial to their teams. This was done according to Scoring Stats, a measure of a player’s combined Goals and Assists, measured as a percentage of their team’s total league goals for the…

Pique talks about Fabregas, Wembley, Messi, Euro 2012 & Tiempo Legend IV

Barcelona and Spain defender Gerard Pique was chosen to be the global lead athlete for the new Nike Tiempo Legend IV football boots. At the launch of the Tiempo Legend, Pique was interviewed about the boot, Fabregas, Euro 2012, why did he cut the net off in the final and more. Here is the transcript:…

England shouldn’t expect any success in the near future

Like myself, all English football fans have been let down in recent years by our regularly under achieving international side. I would like to share my views on why this is the case, and on why I don’t see any reason to expect success in the near future. The fact that us English created the…

Why Can’t the Football World Keep Up With Spain?

As the dust settles on Barcelona’s fantastic 3-1 demolition of Manchester United in the Champions League Final, and the national side recently so effortlessly thumped the United States 4-0, one thing is for certain – Spain are the best footballing nation in the world at this moment in time. Spanish football’s contemporary success is hugely…

Ronaldo bids farewell to football – His legacy lives on!

In the mid-90s a striker from Brazil was making tremors throughout the world football as he scored 42 goals in 46 appearances with PSV Eindhoven. His journey continued from there to Barcelona to Inter Milan to Real Madrid and greatness pursued in all the four leagues he played in. On the international level, he served…

Barcelona have won more doubles than anyone in Europe

Barcelona rose from a very controversial semifinal against Real Madrid to a very fine performance in the final against Manchester United. A performance that has quietened the outcry of Mourinho-hopefuls against Barca’s theatrics in the Bernabeu – with a little help from FIFA again. And this is coming from a Barcelona fan… It’s just that…

This season’s miracle, Eric Abidal

We tend to forget due to our overwhelming passion, that football is just a game. We perceive it as so much more as we are enthralled every single day of our lives with a topic, subject, drama or elation that entails of the sport we love. Besides all that, other issues in the game occur…