Ashley Cole has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association in relation to a Twitter comment he posted about the governing body. Responding to the FA’s judgement in the John Terry racism case, he tweeted on Friday: “Hahahahaa, well done #fa I lied did I, #BUNCHOFT***S”. A brief statement on the FA’s website read: […]
Premier League
John Terry’s defence against claims he racially abused Anton Ferdinand was “improbable, implausible, contrived”, according to the Football Association panel which found him guilty. The FA’s 63-page report explaining why Terry was banned for four games and fined £220,000 was published on Friday. The panel says the Chelsea captain, 31, “is not a racist” but it […]
Barcelona have announced that captain Carlos Puyol has a dislocated left elbow and will miss this weekend’s El Clasico clash with Real Madrid on Sunday. A statement on the Barcelona web site said: Tests conducted this morning confirmed that Carles Puyol has a dislocated left elbow. The player will be submitted a conservative treatment. The estimated […]
Chelsea’s policy of only offering one-year deals to players over 30, is about to cost them Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard, just as it did Didier Drogba last season. ESPN reported last week that Cole had rejected a one-year contract offer from Chelsea, but is hoping that because he is only 31, that Roman Abramovich […]
Lots of rumours going around that Liverpool are interested in a January swap deal with Newcastle, that would see Andy Carroll return to Tyneside with Newcastle striker Demba Ba heading to Anfield. Just one problem with that story. A players cannot play for three Premier League sides in the same season, and since Carroll has […]
Tottenham Hotspur ended their 23-year wait for a win at Old Trafford, while Premier League leaders Chelsea continued their impressive start to the season by beating Arsenal 2-1 at the Emirates. Spurs had not won at Old Trafford since December 1989, but Andre Villas-Boas said that they would attack Manchester United today and that is […]
It was not that long ago that Toon Army were up in arms over Mike Ashley and the Cockney Mafia’s running of Newcastle United. But over the last couple of years Ashley has retreated to the background and let the football people run the club. No surprise then, that Newcastle’s fortunes have turned up since […]
Arsenal released their financial results for the year ending May 31, 2012 today. You can read them here. Despite Arsenal Chief Executive Ivan Gazidis’s attempt to spin the results, this is what he said, there are some worrying trends in these numbers. The Official Arsenal Position Arsenal made a net profit of £36.6 million last season […]