Manchester United’s travel to Marseille in the Champions League left a disappointed taste for many football fans especially the Red Devils fans as being the favorite, Sir Alex Ferguson put out a rather negative performance leading to a boring stalemate encounter. Acknowledging the disappointment of their fans, Ferguson went out and promised a much more […]
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Didier Deschamps is banking on the feverish backing of the Stade Vélodrome crowd to give Marseille a valuable edge in the first leg of their tie against Manchester United, a club the coach describes as “an example to follow”. The visitors have a number of injury problems for the trip to France but Sir Alex […]
The majority of the frontrunners in Europe’s leading leagues enjoyed a winning weekend, though Ligue 1 leaders Lille bucked the trend with a first defeat since October. Meanwhile, Barcelona and Milan rebounded from midweek Champions League defeats to grab valuable league victories. Spain Barcelona bounced back from their midweek Champions League defeat by Arsenal with […]
Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund have had dominated their respective leagues this season, but both were surprised this weekend as Barca saw their record run of victories brought to a halt while Dortmund were held to a draw in the Bundesliga. Elsewhere, AC Milan and Manchester United both recorded morale-boosting results. Spain Real Madrid were able […]
An absolutely brilliant overhead kick from Wayne Rooney gave Manchester United all three points in the Manchester derby and all but eliminated Man City from the title race. Rooney’s acrobatic effort twelve minutes from time came after City had tied the game up when Dzeko’s shot went in via the back of David Silva. Nani […]
The Manchester derby in England and the Derby d’Italia in Italy headline the weekend action across Europe. Here are some of the key games happening this weekend: England: Manchester United v Manchester City ( Darren Fletcher says United “can play better” despite the leaders having lost just once in the Premier League this campaign. That […]
Manchester United’s dream of following Arsenal’s path in winning the Premier League undefeated this weekend in a rather unpredictable scenario as they were surprisingly beaten by the league’s bottom table, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Making the scenario more unexpected, Wolves actually have to come from behind before taking and holding a 2-1 lead against the current table […]
It was a record breaking weekend in Spain as Barcelona set a new unbeaten record in Liga winning streak. Over in Italy the Serie A title race got closer as both Inter and Napoli closed the gap on leaders AC Milan. Spain Barcelona set another fabulous benchmark on Saturday as their 3-0 home win against […]
The details behind Chelsea’s £68.6m loss for last season are starting to come out an they don’t make pretty reading. Chelsea’s annual wage bill soared last season to £172.5million, which is almost £40million more the next highest payers Manchester City paid. In 2009, Chelsea spent £165.6million on wages but that sum included pay-offs worth £12.6million […]