Newcastle’s hopes of taking advantage of Chelsea’s draw at Norwich were stopped by a five-goal second-half blitz from Fulham as they lost 5-2 at Fulham. Fulham were poor in the first-hald and it was no surprise that Newcastle scored first thanks to a Danny Guthrie thunderbolt from outside the area. Not sure what Martin Jol […]
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Fascinating comments in the Mirror from former Chelsea boss, and new Paris Saint-Germain boss Carlo Ancelotti about Fernando Torres. PSG is owned by the Qatar Investment Authority and have money to spend. They are in the market for a center forward and Ancelotti says that he has been offered many of Europe’s top strikers including […]
Chelsea moved back up to fourth place in the Premier League after picking up a 2-1 away victory against Wolves, although it took an 89th-minute winner by Frank Lampard to end Chelsea’s four-match winless run. Stephen Ward thought he had done enough to earn Wolves their fourth consecutive draw when he cancelled out Ramires’s second-half […]
Manchester United missed out on the chance to begin the new year on top of the Premier League after suffering a shock 3-2 defeat at home against Blackburn Rovers. Sir Alex Ferguson turned 70 today but it was a birthday the United manager will want to forget after witnessing his side rally from 2-0 down […]
Manchester United took a big step towards their 20th league title by moving level on points with leaders Manchester City, who were held 0-0 at West Brom, following a 5-0 victory against Wigan. United, who thrashed Fulham 5-0 five days ago and Wigan suffered the same fate with the help of Dimitar Berbatov’s hat-trick (41, […]
England captian John Terry has been charged with racially aggravated public order offence. His court date is set for Feb 1. In a statemet, Alison Saunders, Chief Crown Prosecutor for London, said: “I have today advised the Metropolitan Police Service that John Terry should be prosecuted for a racially aggravated public order offence following comments […]
Chelsea’s recent winning streak was halted by a 1-1 draw at Wigan Athletic, Jordi Gómez capitalising on a horrible mistake from Petr Čech to equalise two minutes from time. The Blues were on course for a fourth consecutive Premier League win when Daniel Sturridge collected a long, diagonal ball from Ashley Cole and drilled a […]
The Daily Mail is reporting this morning that Chelsea are willing to take as £30m loss on misfiring striker Fernando Torres. According to Neil Ashton at the Daily Mail, Chelsea have considered sending Torres out on loan to rebuild his confidence, after scoring only three Premier League goals for Chelsea this year. Chelsea had hoped […]
While Barcelona’s Clásico win at Real Madrid captured headlines around the world, it was not the only significant result in Europe this weekend. Spain The Liga focus fell squarely on the Santiago Bernabéu this weekend as Barcelona injected fresh drama into the title race with a 3-1 comeback win at Madrid. Karim Benzema gave the […]