Best performances…..Pride of place has to go to Barcelona and their 6-1 dismantling of Atletico Madrid. Atletico had a ... Read More

Three Premiership games, one after another on Saturday, together with a Monday night game between Spurs and Aston Villa offers up what looks to be an intriguing round of games. Liverpool vs. Manchester UnitedManchester United have owned Liverpool over the last few Premiership... Read More

Best performances…..Fulham’s win over Arsenal was no fluke. The Cottagers played high quality football and totally outp... Read More

The start of the new Premiership season is only days away and over the next five days I will have previews of all twenty clubs. It is an opportunity to stick your own neck out as well. Criticize my picks and the picks of others... Read More

Last Season – Finished 6th in the Premier League – 60ptsManager:  Martin O’Neill INS:RB Luke Young – 12m USLB Nicky Shorey – 7m USGK Brad Guzan – 1.5m USGK Brad Friedel – 5m USCMF Steve Sidwell – 10m USCB Curtis Davies – 16m US OUTS:GK Thoma... Read More

Last Season – Finished 7th in the Premier League – 58ptsManager:  Paul Ince INS:ST Julio Santa CruzST Robbie FowlerGK Paul Robinson – 7m USRB Danny Simpson - LoanFW Carlos Villanueva - Loan OUTS:RW David BentleyGK Brad FriedelLB Bruno BernerGK Peter EnckelmanCB Stephane HenchozFW Osahon Eboigne – LoanFW Maceo Rigters – LoanST Raffaele De VitaGK Zac Jones Possibles:RW Joaquin Sanchez – ValenciaCMF Anatoly Tymoschuk – Zenit St. PetersburgRW Jermaine Pennant – LiverpoolRW James McFadden – BirminghamRB Juliano Belletti – Chelse... Read More

Here is the original synopsis and predictions for 2007/08 revisited with the addition of the final finishes, the highs and the lows and a couple of semi interesting statistics. So here is an opportunity to share my gaffs and a couple of thoughts that were reasonably close. An... Read More

Stephen Brunt on MLSE’s interest in a Premiership club. FIFA.com looks at goalkeeping’s golden oldies. What Derby has to do to ensure the “worst-ever” tag ... Read More

Foolishmoose - I have a tough one for you. Since the majority of my TV time is spent watching FSC, Setanta, GOL and ESPN Soccer programming, a... Read More

The North American disease strikes again. The hockey play-offs are on and the great North American tradition of rioting when you win gets und... Read More

Craigy_f – 1. Many see the CL in the last few years as a tale of PL dominance. It's hardly that in the UEFA Cup. ... Read More

OSSIE GIVES US SOMETHING TO FINALLY CHEER ABOUT!Time to spoil the party (part II) This has been a great season by recent Everton standards, three or four bad games aside we have been pretty good this season. We sit in fifth place with five games to go on merit. Only three teams have more Premier League w... Read More

Manchester United old boys. Problems over broadcasting rights and rules in Italy. The Times feature on Fulham’s away form. ... Read More

It is midnight in Baltimore and I have a ridiculously early flight tomorrow morning. The weekend preview is truncated for that reason. There are a number of questions that have bee... Read More

Nil-nil ran the scoreline from the Eastland's Stadium in Manchester.  Manchester City (MCFC) held off a late attacking Liverpool side and managed to steal a point ... Read More

It must be difficult to convince supporters of the three Premiership teams located in the north-east of England that it is the season of good cheer. As it currently stands Newcastle, Middlesbrough and Sunderland have played six games over the holid... Read More

A quirky piece on Brad Friedel.   Gabriele Marcotti highlights the revenue ramifications of the Platini inspired Champi... Read More

An article by Marcela Mora y Araujo on Javier Zanetti. It was a stunning decision to leave him out of the Argentine 2006 World Cup. Jonathan Wilson lo... Read More

Phils92001 - The point that I want to make is that of Newcastle. I think that If Big Sam cannot find the goal from Owen, he needs to drop him to the bench and play ... Read More

Birmingham 0-1 Wigan Chelsea 1-2 Man City Reading 0-2 Newcastle Sunderland 0-0Fulham Man Utd 3-1 Middlesbrough Portsmouth 2-1 West Ham Bolton 0-1 Villa Derby 0-2Everton Spurs 1-3 Liverpool 1-3 Arsenal Read More