By all accounts Didier Drogba has told his Chelsea teammates that he is leaving to go to China. Drogba is expected to link up with former team-mate Nicolas Anelka at Shanghai in China in a £200,000-a-week deal. Drogba said: “Even though it’s been three years since I said that I wanted to leave, I find […]
Premier League
By winning the Champions League on Saturday, not only will Chelsea be playing in the Champions League again next season, instead of the Europa League, but they will avoid the Champions League qualification game after being given a number one seed by UEFA. Joining Chelsea as the top seeds in the August 30 draw are […]
The good feeling that Chelsea fans have from being Champions of Europe, took a hit today as a result of the interview that Fernando Torres had with Guillem Balague after the win in Munich last night. Amidst the Chelsea celebrations, Torres could not hid his disappointment and frustration to Balague about his move to Chelsea from Liverpool” […]
West Ham are back in the Premier League after defeating Blackpool 2-1 at Wembley today in the npower Championship play-off final. Ian Holloway’s Blackpool had much the better of the opening exchanges, with Matt Phillips missing two chances, but it was West Ham who took the lead after Carlton Cole nicely controlled Matt Taylor’s pass […]
According to a spokesman for the Netherlands national team, Robin van Perise will not be talkkng with the media during the upcoming European Championships saying: “We made a deal with Arsenal and he won’t talk to the press,” a spokesman for the Dutch Football Association, the KNVB, said. The gap order, imposed by Arsenal came […]
Manchester United released their third-quarter financial results and they do not make good reading for United fans as profit fell 8.5% due to the early Champions League exit. The full impact of not going deep into the Champions League this season and finishing second in the league, instead of winning it, will show up in the […]
I have been reflecting on yesterday’s firing of Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish and I was struck by the contrasting comments made by Liverpool Chairman Tom Werner and Dalglish yesterday. Werner basically said that KD was fired because of the team’s poor league form: “However, results in the Premier League have been disappointing and we believe to […]
The clean out an Anfield continues as Kenny Dalglish has fired as Liverpool manager. A statement released by the club read: Fenway Sports Group (FSG) and Liverpool Football Club announced that Kenny Dalglish is to leave his post today as Manager after having his contract terminated. After a careful and deliberative review of the season, […]
England boss Roy Hodgson has announced is England squad for this summer’s European Championship and there is no place for Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand, while Chelsea’s John Terry has been included. There are some new faces in Hodgson’s squad including uncapped Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy and some surprises. Up front […]