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Soccerlens Daily: Dumb Liverpool fans, why Barton is at Newcastle, Flamini wants more from Arsenal, Aston Villa’s sugardaddy, West Ham in courts and more

Well, that was a surprise. No, not Real Madrid losing at home to Roma (bye bye Schuster, hello Jose?), although Roma must be commended for their excellent efforts (for full coverage, read Chris’s live blog / report). No, the surprise was seeing Liverpool fans searching on Google for information on the 2nd leg game against…

Newcastle United Watch: where will Steven Taylor go – Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Manchester City, Chelsea, West Ham, Aston Villa, Everton, Blackburn or Portsmouth?

Steven Taylor, the much-hyped (and promising) Newcastle United defender: “The longer I hear nothing from the club the more I fear they want to sell me. If there is no offer on the table by the summer then I will have no choice but to look at my options.” So, assuming that Newcastle United get…

Premier League Round 27: Manchester United catching up on Arsenal as Everton and Liverpool favs for 4th spot

I won’t mention anything about what happened to Arsenal’s Eduardo over the weekend, since it’s been talked about plenty already, but I send my get well wishes towards him, and hope he’s back scoring goals (but not against Manchester United) again as soon as possible. It was a pretty important weekend of football in the…

Weary Ronaldo holding off Adebayor for Player of the Year

All bets were off two weeks ago but since returning from Portugal’s friendly defeat to Italy Cristiano Ronaldo has looked a pale shadow of the world-beating uber-confident star that lit up the Premiership’s last six months. After a frustrating Manchester derby and an insipid display in Lyon (he missed the 4-0 Arsenal wrecking) — could…

A lesson in class, or why Everton, Manchester City, Aston Villa and Portsmouth can’t pip Liverpool to 4th place

It’s not been a good 10 days for the Premier League, for Richard Scudamore or for their grand plan to take the league to the world. Flak has come in from all comers, from the media hacks working for the reactionary red-tops, all the way up to the top of the tree, where Sepp Blatter…

07/08 FA Cup Quarter Final Draw – Manchester United and Chelsea for the final?

We’re down to the last four games of the FA Cup and with smart money on Manchester United or Chelsea to win the Cup. While a United-Chelsea final still possible after they were drawn apart in the quarter-finals, fans would be hoping to avoid a repeat of last season’s tactical deadlock that was decided on…

FA Cup 5th Round: Last-minute luck for Portsmouth

See, I knew I shouldn’t have said anything about consecutive replay-less rounds. There were only two FA Cup fifth-round ties to be played on Sunday, and one of them just had to go to a replay. Sunday’s ties offered up the opportunity for two struggling Championship sides to get a big boost at the expense…

Weekend’s Talking Points: Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Portsmouth, Blackburn, Reading, Everton, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Newcastle United, Middlesbrough, Wigan

So the see-saw that is the Premier League lead has swung back the way of Arsenal again after they became the first side this season to leave the City of Manchester Stadium with three league points, whilst their North London neighbours Tottenham apologized for humiliating them in the Carling Cup last month by halting the…

Weekend Predictions: Arsenal to beat Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea to draw and Manchester United to beat Tottenham

Call me old-fashioned, but i believe that fidelity remains the cornerstone of a successful relationship. I would never cheat on my wife, unless the opportunity arose. I have serious doubts over my wife’s respect for monogamy. The word on the street is that Ashley Cole was physically sick while performing the horizontal 64-second jig, which…

Transfer Roundup: Manchester City, Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Everton, Newcastle, Wigan, Bolton, Derby, Fulham, Celtic, Werder Bremen, Hamburg SV, Hertha Berlin, Osasuna, Lazio, Brescia

There was, as expected, plenty of deadline-day craziness, and while there are several deals to report, I’ll start by talking about the deal that didn’t happen, and one that did, at the same time. With Manchester City coming in for Benjani, Portsmouth went about looking for a replacement, and found one in Tottenham’s Jermain Defoe….