Without Man Utd, newly crowned World Champions, and Wigan, with never a trophy in their history, and Chelsea playing Everton tomorrow, let’s have a quick round up of the rest of the results. Saturday afternoon saw four 3 o’clock kick offs – the first looking decided was Bolton-Portsmouth, with the home side going two up [...]
An absorbing, high tempo game ended honours even this afternoon, Arsenal and Liverpool battling out a one all draw at the Emirates. Despite the lack of clear cut chances, it was a fascinating, absorbing game, and there were two high quality goals first from Robin Van Persie, and then from the under-pressure Robbie Keane. A red card in the second half didn’t help Arsenal’s cause. Read the full report here…
Man United and Wigan do not play this week – but suffice to say, if you don’t already know that, you’re unlikley to be someone who takes Fantasy Football seriously enough to read an article like this. But for all you die hard fans out there, our top 3 picks for this weekend’s fixtures start with a potential beneficiary of ‘New Manager’ syndrome, as Fat Sam rolls into Ewood Park…
A fantastic round of matches in prospect as Liverpool drew Real Madrid, Utd drew Inter, Chelsea drew Juventus, and Arsenal (in probably the easiest of the games) face Roma. The games will take place on the 24/25 February and 10/11 March. The draw in full: Chelsea v Juventus Villarreal v Panathinaikos Sporting Lisbon v Bayern [...]
That’s the idea Ben Procter is analysing… bringing back fond memories of Swindon’s 1992/3 play-off final victory over Leicester. Here is his argument (incidentally, the Man Utd game we linked to earlier was a 5-3 thriller with 6 goals in the last 17 minutes…) Watching a late night session of American Football and thinking about [...]
Already not-qualified Portsmouth won 3-0 in the UEFA Cup last night, whereas already qualified Aston Villa lost 3-1 (the one bright spot another goal from the immensely promising Nathan Delfuonso). Man Utd are playing at the moment in the World Club Cup – you can watch it live here.
Moving away from their enterprising, faith-in-youth approach to managers, Blackburn have acted swiftly to replace Paul Ince with Sam Allardyce. He’ll probably do well there – undoubtedly a resounding success at Bolton, his record at Newcastle wasn’t all that bad, in retrospect – and it wasn’t so long ago he was a popular choice for [...]
Ben takes a look at some of the major summer transfers and how they have fared at their new clubs. Part two to follow… De Souza Robinho (Manchester City) The obvious choice to look at first when talking about the summer transfers. Manchester City would have broken the bank with the British record £32.5 million [...]
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In the wake of Paul Ince’s dismissal from Blackburn, Andrew Walker examines the shrewdness of appointing a big name player as a manager… When Paul Ince was appointed as Blackburn manager in June, he was heralded as the first black Englishman to manage a Premiership club. Just six months and three league wins later, he [...]
