Chelsea moved back on top of the Premier League with a convincing 3-0 win at home against Birmingham City. Birmingham arrived at Stamford Bridge on a club-record 15-match unbeaten run, but that unbeaten streak was in jeopardy within six minutes when City left Florent Malouda unmarked in the penalty box, as he headed in a […]
Premier League
The good news for Avram Grant and Pompey fans, is that the Premier League has lifted the clubs transfer embargo. The bad news is that they can only sign players on loan or who are available on a free transfer Portsmouth has been unable to register new players since October, when the Premier League imposed […]
Can the real Liverpool team please stand up? A week after beating Spurs 2-0 at home and looking once again like contenders for that 4th Champions League spot, Liverpool traveled to Wolves and could only manage a 0-0 draw. Even with captain Steven Gerrard back in the line-up, Liverpool lacked that cutting edge in front […]
Is their a more disliked executive in world football than Manchester City chief-executive Garry Cook? Cook was heavily criticized for the way that he handled the firing of Mark Hughes’ last month and he drew ridicule when he accused AC Milan of “bottling it” in the wake of his failed attempt to sign Kaka. Well […]
Former Manchester United player Carlos Tevez scored twice as Man City took a 2-1 advantage into the Carling Cup semi-final second leg at Old Trafford next week. United had taken the lead in the first half from a Ryan Giggs tap-in but the game changed right before half time when ref Mike Dean penalized Rafael […]
As if losing to Reading in the FA Cup was not bad enough, now comes news that three Liverpool players suffered injuries in the game. The biggest loss is Fernando Torres, who being substituted damaged cartilage in his right knee, and will be out of action for six weeks. Steven Gerrard will miss two weeks […]
The BBC had a story recently that the clubs that have qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League this season have already pocketed on average 50m euros (£45m) from the competition. The 50m euros is comprised of 14m euros in participation and prize money, 12m euros from UEFA’s commercial deals, 8m euros from […]
I was shocked to read on the Chelsea web site that the club is now claiming that team it is now effectively debt free. So what happened to the £600+million that Roman Abramovich had put into Chelsea since he bought the team? Well it appears that Abramovich turned his interest-free loan to the club into […]