EPL Weekly

Luis Suarez Handed Fine And Eight Match Ban

EPLWeekly — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:30:26 +0000

All the news wires are a buzz the last 12 hours with the Luis Suarez sentencing. The Liverpool striker gets an eight-match ban and £40,000 fine after found guilty of racially abusing Man United’s Patrice Evra. Suarez of course has denied allegations and has a two week window to appeal the decision. Question now is how soon will rest of us find out the appeal is on because surely an appeal is going to happen. Major outlets are reiterating A [...]

Manchester City’s Super Mario In The Spotlight

UtdGazza — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:13:46 +0000

Mario Barwuah Balotelli, that’s Balotelli to you and I. He’s only 20, but already he has made the headlines countless of times. Whether it’s disciplinary problems because of his love-hate relationship with Jose Mourinho, or throwing darts off team mates, Balotelli is always on the look out for the attention he thinks he deserves. The incident, against LA Galaxy was no different. Balotelli was clean through, but what got Mancini fuming was Balotelli’s inability to finish off, what looked [...]

World Football Rants

El Presidente — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:28:44 +0000

In a perfect footballing world I get what I want. It´s a Football Manager way to address that which annoys me. I´m not bothered by it. There is alot that´s wrong about football and I wish these amateurish professionals would get it straight. Here´s what I´d like. I´m not going to ask for the moon. I know no one is ever going to clean up FiFa so I won´t spend my wishes on that which is impossible. Forget also asking [...]

Manchester United’s Ashley Young A Top Signing?

UtdGazza — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:49:53 +0000

After the Champions League Final at Wembley, Manchester United fans questioned where the quality was as witnesses to a mesmeric array of football by Catalan opponents Barcelona . The top priority for most Manchester United fans, and Sir Alex Ferguson, is to sign a world class midfielder, in other words, a replacement for Scholes. That doesn’t seem like happening any time soon. Sir Alex Ferguson has already managed to sign Phil Jones, who has been touted as the next [...]

Big Summer Ahead For Clubs In Northeast England

Simon Heptinstall — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:30:40 +0000

The season is over and for the next three months we now have to endure a long agonising summer of football rumour and speculation. No matter what team you support, feelings are generally the same please God let us keep our best players and sign some good new ones. For the two northeast clubs in the Premier League, Newcastle and Sunderland, the next two months holds particular importance and will shape the clubs not just next season but also in [...]

Arsenal: Oh Well Fourth is Good Non?

Simon Heptinstall — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:47:39 +0000

As I started writing this article, Chelsea had just sacked one of the most successful managers in European club football over the past decade. This might be the Chelsea the way of doing things but it is certainly not the Arsenal way, they are more like the Catholic Church. Change doesn’t come easy to them, they think in terms of decades not days and weeks. For many this is the right approach to running a football club, after all look [...]

Chelsea 0-1 Liverpool: Dalglish 3-5-1-1 Trumps Ancelotti Diamond Formation

Scot Munroe — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:46:22 +0000

Kenny Dalglish back in the game for over a month and tactically outclassed the Italian Carlo Ancelotti in Liverpool 1-0 away win at Chelsea thanks to a sole goal from Raul Meireles. The basic shape of Chelsea was a diamond formation with Nicholas Anelka sat in the hole behind both Torres and Drogba, behind Anelka was Mikel as the holding Midfielder with Essien and Lampard in front of him. For Liverpool the set up was a 3-6-1 formation in defence [...]

Premier League Is The Best League In The World… FACT!

Adam Storer — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:22:58 +0000

After all the drama of the transfer deadline day pantomime, last minute rushing around, and the ludicrous amounts of money being splashed around everywhere. We were able to see the football once again take the headlines from all the talk about money, wages, and loyalty. This weekend bought us pure football, the reason we all love the sport with a passion, whom ever your team will be, whatever result they may have achieved over the weekend, we all know that [...]

Sky Pundits In Sexist Slur

Scot Munroe — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:51:31 +0000

Before the Wolves-Liverpool game, both Richard Keys and Andy Gray were caught out in an off microphone conversation about female linesman Sian Massey. The duo was suspended for the Bolton-Chelsea Monday night football match on Sky. News broke on Tuesday afternoon that Andy Gray had been sacked and his Sky contract was terminated. Gray was dismissed for making sexist comment to ‘Sky Sports News’ and ‘Take it like a Fan’ presenter Charlotte Jackson. He said to her, “Charlotte are you going [...]

It’s All About The Money

Adam Storer — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:03:17 +0000

Money, money, money, its all that seems to matter in the English Premier League these days, the demands for wages have become ridiculously high, and player power becomes more and more prominent. I remember the years when the greatest players in the league were all under control, wage demands weren’t number one priority, and any players who stepped out of line, no matter how big an icon to the club, were reprimanded. Manchester Utd and Sir Alex Ferguson spring to [...]