Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Chelsea were preparing to sell Florent Malouda, as the French winger tweeted a picture of the under-21 building at Chelsea’s Cobham training ground with the words “this is where I’ll train for my last season with the Blues”. Now even though Malouda’s Chelsea career looks set to end
When Phil Jones signed for Manchester United at the end of the 2010 - 2011 Premier league season, he was a young defensive midfielder who had proved extremely versatile in a highly impressive season in an otherwise unimpressive Blackburn team. Sir Alex Ferguson had just led Manchester United to history making 19th league title and
A few days old but had to share this remarkable story with you. The boy you see above is Gabriel Muniz - an 11-yr-old Brazilian, born 170 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro, with an unfortunate malformation of both feet. What makes his story interesting is that he is an aspiring footballer who wants to
The facts: Full name: Nathaniel Edwin Clyne Date of birth: April 5th 1991 Club: Southampton Position: Right back Height: 1.75m Weight: 67kg Squad number: 2 Nathaniel Clyne is a young player with a growing reputation in football and came through Crystal Palace’s highly respected youth academy. Crystal Palace youth academy has produced a number
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2012 through to 2014 has and is going to be a very busy period for a number of countries within Confederation of African Football (CAF). First is the qualification rounds to the 2013 African Cup of Nations(ACN). There will then be the 29th ACN final itself in South Africa. The winner from the South Africa
When Manchester United bade farewell to the languid Bulgarian Footballer, Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov, many fans breathed a sigh of relief as they were happy to see his back finally after slating him for the 4 torrid years he had at the club. He never had the support of the MUFC faithful because of his playing
For many years now, Sir Alex Ferguson has been buying promising youth projects and developing them into world class football players. The signing of young Chilean striker Angelo Henriquez therefore should be met with genuine excitement. Henriquez has an impressive scoring record for his previous club Universidad de Chile, scoring 11 goals in 17 appearances
September 27th is a Thursday this year. Given that 2012 is a leap year, it will be the 271st day of the year. On this day, the great Roman Francesco Totti will celebrate his 36th birthday, while the folks over at Google HQ celebrate its 14th. However, September 27th, 2012 will also be the first
After compiling a list of my top 10 defenders and strikers, I decided to do something similar on the best glovemen we have seen over the last 20 years. Like previous top 10 lists, the rankings are based on a number of aspects, including quality, trophies and longevity. 10. Jussi Jaaskelainen - Clubs: Bolton,
When the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) TOOK OVER the reins at the Capital club, changes were expected.. How quick and rapid the changes would be was the main thing. Represented by President Al-Khelaifi, they haven’t at all disappointed. In actual fact, Europe is in awe at what can be described as power changing hands. Last
Right then — Ligue 1. It’s a bit interesting now, isn’t it? With some very big money arrivals, and equally expensive departures, people seem to be starting to take the French league seriously. While Eden Hazard’s early form at Chelsea has shown the league isn’t as weak as many would have you think, the arrival
Italian legend Alessandro Del Piero has officially signed for Sydney FC tonight agreeing to a 2 year contract with the option of a 3rd year. This has come to a shock to some supporters around the world as Sydney FC were up against some of the biggest clubs in Europe with the likes of Liverpool,
Michael Owen, remember him? The once great next hope of English football, from scoring an equaliser for Liverpool away at Wimbledon on the opening day of the 1997 season as a fresh-faced 17 year old, to doing away with footballing reputations and the logic of age as his 18 year old vibrancy tore an impressive
The facts: Full name: Jack Butland Date of birth: March 10th 1993 Club: Birmingham City Position: Goalkeeper Height: 1.96m Weight: 94.5kg Squad number: 1 Jack Butland has only come into the public eye in the last few months when he produced simply fantastic performances for Team GB during the 2012 Olympic Football tournament.
A Tottenham transfer deadline day is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. Ok, it’s not. It’s a damn lot more exciting, though. And Tottenham are the Sky cameras’ favourite deadline day club knowing full well the amount of deals Daniel Levy likes to try and conclude. This time is was Gary Cotteril
Some things in life are worth waiting for, and if you are a Zenit Saint Petersburg fan, Monday night was certainly worth waiting for. Frustration amongst fans has been consistently growing over the past year after virtually no new purchases for such a long time, Monday night felt like Christmas Day. Over the past few
The greatest shows in World Sport: The 100m Olympic Final; a World Cup Final and even a Rugby World Cup Final. Add the Premier League transfer deadline day to the list. Panic buying, the rapid adjustment of plans or simply pre-planned deals that owners felt were better to complete just hours before the deadline -
O-Posts will be hosting a series titled “The Premier League’s Most Exciting Prospects” written by our very own Henry Francis. Our first will be on Southampton’s James Ward-Prowse. We hope it’s up to your satisfaction and enjoyment. At 17, Southampton’s James Ward-Prowse is extremely young to be plying his trade in the Premier League, never
On Saturday 8th September 2012 Scotland start their latest world cup qualifying campaign with a home match against Serbia at Hampden Park followed up with a second game against Macedonia. In a qualifying group also consisting of Belgium, Croatia and Wales it is not going to be easy for manager Craig Levein’s team to achieve
Welcome to the first of many Serie A weekly reviews! Serie A had some exciting action over the weekend in the second round of matches. On paper, Roma-Inter looked to be the most anticipated match, but Inter never lived up to the hype as they saw the King of Rome pick and choose his spots.
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The transfer window has finally shut. No more transfer moves are allowed in England until the first of January. In one of the most disappointing deadline days in recent Liverpool history the club sent Andy Carroll, the club’s record signing, on loan to West Ham United and failed to replace him with any striker. This
Name - M’Baye Babacar Niang DOB - 19 December 2023 (age 17) Height – 6ft 0” (1.84m) Weight – 11st 11lbs (75kg) Club – AC Milan Position - Striker Career Appearances (Goals) – 31 (5) Prior to the beginning of the 2012/13 season Mbaye Niang was one of the most sought after talents in European football. During