The Spanish paper El Mundo Deportivo claims to be have gotten its hands on the 57 names that make up the shortlist for the this year’s Ballon d’Or. That legendary Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was not one of the five goalkeepers on the list has sparked outrage in Italy, with the Juventus keeper admitting his disappointment. […]
Arsenal
Neil Ashton in the Daily Mail is reporting that Arsene Wenger accused his under-achieving Arsenal stars of lacking passion and desire during a fiery training ground inquest on Wednesday into their shambolic 3-2 defeat against Olympiacos. The Arsenal manger, under mounting pressure following a second successive defeat in the group stage of the Champions League, […]
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger warned his side are already facing a must-win game in only their second Champions League group match against Olympiakos at the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners host the Olympiakos, who have won all of their five domestic fixtures in the Greek league, needing to recover from a disappointing opening Group F defeat […]
Liverpool survived an almighty scare in the English League Cup while Sheffield Wednesday heaped more misery on Newcastle boss Steve McClaren as he saw his side lose 1-0 at home. With rumors of a split amongst Liverpool’s directors on whether to fire Brendan Rodgers or not, the under-fire manager saw his side booed by the […]
To nobody’s surprise the Football Association have charged Chelsea’s Diego Costa and Arsenal’s Gabriel with violent conduct and improper conduct respectively after their clash during Chelsea’s 2-0 win over Arsenal, the Football Association announced. “Diego Costa has been charged for an alleged act of violent conduct which was not seen by the match officials but […]
It is an ongoing problem with Arsenal where players are coming back from an initial minor injury and break down and need surgery. We saw it earlier this month when Danny Welbeck broke down in training and is out until Christmas after having surgery on was originally was called a minor injury. Now we hear […]
Laurent Koscielny is an injury doubt for Arsenal’s match with Stoke this weekend, but his lost may not be as big an issue as it has been in the past because of the development of Gabriel Paulista. The Brazilian was third choice in the Arsenal pecking order at the beginning of the season, with regular […]
Arsene Wenger defended his transfer policy on Wednesday night — despite Arsenal’s failure to buy a senior outfield player during the summer window. Goalkeeper Petr Cech was his only capture in the window, signing in an £11million deal from Chelsea. In fact Wenger’s Arsenal were the only club in Europe’s top five leagues (Premier, La […]
Callum Wilson scored d a hat-trick as Bournemouth won 4-3 at West Ham United to claim their first ever English Premier League victory. Wilson took advantage of some horrible defending by Hammers fullback Aaron Cresswell to score twice in the opening 28 minutes. But when Mark Noble penalty and Cheikhou Kouyate both scored to draw […]