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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…

Newcastle United: What’s happened to Dan Gosling?

I’ve heard a few rumblings lately with regards to Dan Gosling. How long is he going to be out for? And when is he likely to return to first team action? Those kinds of rumblings… I really was looking forward to seeing him play and I thought it was a great bit of business done…

Kinnear strikes again – the case against ex-Newcastle United managers

Joe Kinnear, a man who can barely contain himself when the press are within his vicinity, has been at it again. In his most recent ramblings he has spoken of how little credit he got on his time on Tyneside, concluding it’s ‘because I’m a cockney’. He was referencing how he has not received plaudits…

Should Newcastle be contemplating Europe?

First off I need to clarify that this isn’t some deluded statement from another one of those Newcastle fans who the press love poke fun at. You know the ones, the ones who are impatient and feel that we have a divine right to be at the top of the Premier League year in, year…

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…

EPL: Newcastle United 4-4 Arsenal (5 Feb 2011)

Arsenal had finished the game at the 26th minute mark when Robin van Persie scored his second and Gunner’s fourth goal. But then Abou Diaby was sent off. Looking at the score-sheet, that red card flipped the game on its head and we bared witness to an epic comeback at the St. James’ Park. A…

The Age of Desperation: From Chelsea to Arsenal, via Manchester, Liverpool, Tottenham and Newcastle

The transfer deadline day madness that resulted in Chelsea spending 70m+ and two new entries on the most expensive football transfers list had people wondering what had happened to the ‘age of austerity’ as brought about by the financial crunch and UEFA Financial Fair Play policy. It’s not every day that 24m and 27m buys…

Lies? What Andy Carroll and Newcastle aren’t telling the fans

“Despite getting the best financial deal of the day you suspect Newcastle will end up being the window’s biggest losers.” – Adrian Clarke. In a nutshell, that’s what Liverpool’s record £35m signing of Andy Carroll from Newcastle United boils down to – they got silly money that they couldn’t refuse, but with no time to…

Transfer Deadline Round-Up: Torres And Carroll Smash Records

For the first time in a long time, the transfer deadline day actually lived up to it’s monstrous, gossip-driven hype.

Over the course of 24 hours of prime pantomime, we witnessed both the fourth and the eighth most expensive transfers of all time take place, with Chelsea bagging themselves a new number nine and Liverpool taking 35 million steps to fill the void left thereafter.

The Round-Up: Torres Exit Request Rejected, Man Utd To Go Dutch

Liverpool have confirmed that striker Fernando Torres made an official transfer request yesterday afternoon amidst interest from Chelsea, and that the club have also turned it down – telling the Spaniard that they expect him to honour his long-term contract at Anfield.