Best performances…..Making their Champions League debut FCR Cluj beat Roma 2-1 in the Olympic Stadium. Manchester City ... Read More

Liverpool vs. Middlesbrough This is a meeting of two teams that won their opening fixtures. However, Boro has n... Read More

Best performances….. Hull has a tough season in front of them but no matter what happens from here they will always... 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 8th in the Premier League – 57ptsManager: Harry RedknappINS:ST Ben Sahar – LoanST Peter Crouch – 22m USST Omar Alieu Koroma – LoanOUTS:MF Sulley MuntariDF Joel WardGK Asmir Begovic – LoanPossibles:DF Younes Kaboul – TottenhamFW Jeremy Menez – MonacoDMF Marcelo Mattos – PanathinainkosST Eidur Gudjohnsen – BarcelonaST Steven Fletcher – HibernianLB Celestine Babayaro – FAST Djibril Cisse – MarseilleMF Nolberto Solano – FACB Steven Taylor – NewcastleRW Shaun Wright-PhillipsWhat’s Left in the Kitty – 10m USWhat Lies Ahead:Aug 16 Chelsea (A)Aug 23 Manchester Unted (H)Aug 30 Everton (A)Sep 13 Middlesbrough (H)Sep 20 Manchester City (A)Sep 27 Tottenham (H)Oct 4 Stoke City (H)Possible Starting XI:GK David JamesRB Glen JohnsonCB Sylvain DistinCB Sol CampbellLB Hermann HreidarssonRMF John UtakaCMF Papa Bouba Diop/Lassana DiarraCMF Sean DavisLMF Niko KranjcarFW Peter Crouch/David NugentFW Jermaine Defoe/KanuHow They’ll Stack Up:After winning the FA Cup last term (for the first time in 69-years), Portsmouth now get to show what they can do on the European stage in the UEFA Cup. Since Harry Redknapp returned, the side have continued to build and the little/large strike partner... Read More

For the first time since 1996 the annual curtain raiser to the English season, the Community Shield, will welcome an interloper. Usually this showpiece event is the exclusive domain of the ‘B4’ - thankfully that domination has f... Read More

Last Season:  Finished 9th in the Premier League – 55ptsManager - Mark Hughes INS:ST Jo – 36m USCB Tal Ben Haim – Undisclosed OUTS:ST Giorgios SamarasST Paul DickovMF GeovanniST Emile MpenzaGK Andreas IsaskssonDF Sun JihaiST Ashley Grimes Possibles:ST Vagner Love – CSKA MoscowST Lukas Podolski – Bayern MunichST Roque Santa Cruz – BlackburnST Obafemi Martins – NewcastleMF Lassana Diarra – PortsmouthMF Andrei Arshavin – Zenit St.PetersburgFW Craig Bellamy – West Ham What’s Left in the Kitty – 60m US roughly What Lies Ahe... Read More

The relative lull since the European Championship and the start up of the big domestic leagues in Europe offered an opportunity to catch up on some reading. “Bloody Confused! – A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer” – Chuck Culpep... Read More

Amid all this summer’s transfer talk one of the few big money moves to actually happen has been the $20M+ transfer of Peter Crouch from Liverpool to FA Cup holders Portsmouth. Taken at face value the intent would seem to be to play Crouch in attack alongside former West Ham ... Read More

Zuco2 - Seriously Bobby, you're pretty good at predictions. Bobby – Well if you mean I was seriously out to lunch on the relegated teams then you are right! My... Read More

An abbreviated weekend preview this time around. Cardiff’s Aaron Ramsey might be the story of Saturday’s FA Cup Final. Another angle? The Cardiff sq... 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

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

LGB – 1. Do you think the "conference" format hurts or helps the MLS? 2. I went to Bill Turianski'... Read More

Setanta takes the “For Sale” sign down. Andrew Jennings on Peter Hargitay, a "strategic adviser" to England's 2018 World Cup bid.... Read More

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

Ursusarctos - Since the '80s, I believe only First Division/ PL teams have won the FA Cup, even though several finals in that time featured one lower division team. In the '70s (most recently), several teams from the old Second Division won it by beating First Div... Read More

Sunday afternoon at Goodison Park.  Hardly the proper time for football but nonetheless.  Tense game with some expansive a... Read More

The Swamp World Cup is being played in Scotland. With a bit of forward planning the old Baseball Ground in Derby could have been a permanent venue. ... Read More

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