Premier League
Luis Suarez has been banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 by the Football Association for racially abusing Patrice Evra. Evra told French TV he was racially abused by Suarez on 10 occasions during Manchester United’s Barclays Premier League match at Anfield on October 15. The FA said in a statement: “An Independent Regulatory Commission […]
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 […]
Landon Donovan has agreed to join Everton on a two-month loan from MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy. The agreement, which was reached on Thursday following recent discussions between Everton, LA Galaxy and Major League Soccer, is pending paperwork that needs to be finalised. Once that is completed, Donovan is set to join Everton over the […]
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 […]
Fascinating article in the Sun today about how today about how Andre Villas-Boas laid down the law to his Chelsea players. Between the defeat to Liverpool in the Carling Cup and the trip to Newcastle, AVB met with Chelsea’s four most senior players: John Terry, Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard and Petr Cech. It appears that AVB told […]
This is simply brilliant. From Talksport: Samir Nasri has hit back at critics of his mega-money move to Man City by blasting Arsenal for failing to provide the Europa League football he craved. Nasri, who was criticised by Arsenal fans and labelled a mercenary when he left for Man City in the summer, feels vindicated […]
On another night of drama in the Champions League Lyon, Basel and Napoli all moved onto the round of 16, while last season’s beaten finalist Manchester United was sent to the Europa League. The most unlikely team to progress to the knock stages was Lyon, who needed Ajax to lose at home to Real Madrid […]