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The Transfer Window
In the absence of any meaningful football this summer (excluding a nod to the U21s) we’ll focus on the endless transfer sagas in the Premiership and beyond (don’t forget Simon Cox). So far Man City have (predictably) splashed the cash on Barry and Santa Cruz and look like getting Tevez, Liverpool (less predictably) have spent a frankly absurd £17m on Glen Johnson, and (inevitably) Florentine Perez has brough the Galacticos Kaka and Ronaldo to the Bernabau. Read on for all the confirmed moves, breaking news, and rumours…
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Stats
2008/9 in Numbers»
Reviewing the season the geeky way - here is 2008/9 in numbers. Interested in who was caught offside the most (Djibril Cisse) or which team conceded the highest proportion of goals from outside the box (Arsenal)? Then read on…
Fantasy Football
It’s all Over»
Another season of Fantasy Football under the bridge… how did you do? Our side finished with 1901 points, in 31,019 position; a huge jump from last season’s 33,211th. In a thousand years time we might win it. Read on the see the season’s dream team…
Playalikes
Playalikes: Number Five: Theo Wright-Lennon»
Lookalikes are ten-a-penny - anyone can make Dirk Kuyt look like Sloth from the Goonies, or Peter Reid look like a monkey. It takes more to put two people together stylistically and functionally; players who remind you of one another, players who play like each other - players that could be clones of one another. Playalikes. Number five in our series is a first - Threealikes. Three players who play the same. Three!
What to Buy
Football Manager Handheld»
Are you a fan of Championship Manager? If so, Football Manager Handheld (PSP) is for you. It’s Football Manager lite, stripped of the superfluities; a nod to the old days, the original Champmans, where you picked and managed a team, chose from a set of formations, and bought and sold players. You could rattle through a season in a few hours, tweaking and changing, moving positions, dropping those out of form and giving youth a chance, resting your stars in the cup, and gradually bleeding your latest starlet into the first team…
Games
Truly Magical…»
We all love a good football game, real or virtual, offline or on. But sometimes our love can become obsession. Read on for a tale of love, loss and devotion - to Baggio’s Magical Kicks…
Betting
Betting - the New Investing»
Our sister site, Wakuba - http://wakuba.com - has been getting some press recently. We see it as a genuine way to make money - an alternative to investing in stocks and shares (and we all know how that ended up!). With carefully researched selections, and researchers highlighting relevant trends/issues around players, teams and games, is it really that different from a stockbroker analysing macro and micro economic factors?
