Last Season: Finished 2nd in the Premier League – 85ptsManager – Luiz Felipe ScolariOdds of Winning Title – 15-to-8 INS:AMF Deco – 16m USRB Jose Bosingwa – 33m US OUTS:CDF Tal Ben HaimDF Khalid BoulahrouzCMF Steve SidwellCB Harry WorleyST Hernan CrespoDMF Claude MakaleleCDF Slobodan RajkovicST Ben Sahar (loan)AMF Jimmy Smith (loan) Possibles:MF Robinho – Real MadridST Obafemi Martins – NewcastleMF Bastian Schweinsteiger – Bayern MunichMF Diego – Werder BremenMF Kaka – AC MilanST Mario Balotelli – Inter Milan What’s Left in the Kitty – 151m US What Lies Ahead:Aug 16 Portsmouth (H)Aug 23 Wigan (A)Aug 30 Tottenham (H)Sep 13 Manchester City (A)Sep 20 Manchester United (H)Sep 27 Stoke City (A)Oct 4 Aston Villa (H) Possible Starting XI:GK Petr CechRB Jose BosingwaCB Ricardo CarvalhoCB John TerryLB Ashley ColeRMF Joe Cole/John-Obi MikelCMF Michael EssienCMF Deco/Michael BallackLMF Frank Lampard/Michael BallackFW Didier Drogba/Andriy SchevchenkoFW Nicolas Anelka/Florent Malouda How They’ll Stack Up:Chelsea missed out on the title last season by two points – in large part because of that home draw versus Wigan on April 14th.  Now, many Blues fans hope Scolari is the difference maker this term.  Our own Bobby McMa... Read More

Czech Republic 2-3 Turkey Czech coach Karel Bruckner recalled Jan Koller the lead the attack and it quickly paid off. A weakness in the centre of the Turkish defence was evident in their first two group games and in... Read More

Czech Republic 1-3 Portugal Two games and two wins for Portugal and they are within a smidgen of moving on to the knock out stage. The Czechs put in a far better performance than the opening game and can go into the final match ... Read More

Group ACzech RepublicThe Czech Republic has qualified for four European Championships in four attempts and has only lost two qualifying games along the way. How they qualifiedThey topped Group D beating out Germany by two points and finished a mammoth twel... Read More

henry14 - I personally feel that all the other 19 teams in the Prem lack creative midfielders in the mould of the Deco, Pirlo type that Arsenal have in abundance, l think everyone saw the how Arsenal were full of ideas and United lacked them at all, and by the way l feel Gerrard is not at all creative he is an impact midfielder. Bobby what do you make of my creativity theory. Is it true that everytime Arsenal won at Old Traffo... Read More

France win and Portugal can have no complaints. France was the more composed side and looked as if they were the more likely side to score - even t... Read More

The big decision was the penalty call and the referee got the call absolutely right. Portugal is getting nothing out of Pauleta as the lone striker as the French always have enough pla... Read More

A very evenly contested first half. England settled more quickly into the game but after 15 minutes Portugal started to establish their... Read More

England: Robinson, Neville, Ferdinand, Terry, A Cole, Beckham, Lampard, Hargreaves, Gerrard, J Cole, Rooney. Portugal: Ricardo, Miguel, Carvalho, Meira, Valente, Petit, Maniche, Tiago, Figo, Ronaldo, Pa... Read More

Portugal is no doubt an underdog in this one and frankly I whole heartedly understand why. Portugal is a team that is always good but unfortunately just not good enough. You might be th... Read More

Luis Figo, thus far has created ALL of Portugal's goals.  His assist against Angola created Pauleta's goal.  Against Iran, Deco's goal came off of... Read More

In the end a comfortable win for Portugal. Iran didn't have many ideas in midfield and they created few chances. an interesting choice as the ... Read More