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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…

Seven Clubs Do Battle For Premier League Survival

With just six games remaining in this seasons Premier League campaign, the relegation battle looks set to be closer than ever with just eight points separating the bottom 12 clubs. The battle looks sure to come down to the final day of the season and I think there are seven clubs who are in grave…

Scoring Stats – The European clubs most reliant on one player

It’s surprising how many teams rely so heavily on one player for scoring.

Saturday Preview: Chelsea, United and Tottenham to march on with wins

The Premier League this Saturday looks set to give some of the teams at the bottom a massive chance to boost their survival hopes. Blackburn Rovers and Birmingham City go head to head in a classic six pointer, while the early game gives Wolves a chance to climb out of the relegation zone. West Ham…

Swearing Rooney shows more common sense than FA [Video]

Manchester United’s inspiring comeback on Saturday – yet another revival from a club that has engineered countless others in the past two decades under Alex Ferguson – was meant to spur the league leaders into a final dash to the finish line, With Arsenal dropping points at home, it gave Manchester United the luxury of…

Tottenham NOT challenging Olympic decision – yet

Following statements made by the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) claiming that they have received a letter from Tottenham that is a pre-cursor to judicial review proceedings (and then pre-empting any Tottenham actions by going on and on about the ‘fairness’ of the process – in other words, playing the media), Tottenham Hotspur have issued…

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…

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…

Ten Overhead Kicks That Put Rooney’s Derby Shinner To Shame

After Wayne Rooney reminded us all that he used to be a fairly decent professional footballer with his derby day belter against Manchester City last Saturday, the received (Sky Sports-infused) wisdom seems to be that the decidedly off-colour striker’s effort was, without need for second thought, the greatest overhead kick ever scored by anyone, anywhere, ever.

However, that’s not quite the case – as the following, ten-strong video essay will hopefully attest to.

The Olympic Stadium War – West Ham play dirty, but are Tottenham really ‘progressive’?

The Olympic Stadium decision will be announced this week, and the biggest question the legacy committee will be asking themselves is – what bad things will Karren Brady have to say about them if they rule in favour of Tottenham? She’s conducted herself in a manner any unscrupulous politician in the world would be proud…