Monthly Archives: January 2011

Written by Howard Hockin There were plenty of metaphorical pats on the back for Rio Ferdinand recently when during the Spurs v Manchester United match he told Rafael not to wave an imaginary yellow card at the referee, as this...read more »

Written by Alastair Bayliss The victory against Huddersfield yesterday afternoon came at a heavy price. Samir Nasri looks set to be out for 2-3weeks, and Denilson, although battling on manfully, also looked as if he had picked up a muscle strain...read more »

Arsenal have reached their first cup final in three years after overcoming a resilient Ipswich side in what turned out to be a comfortable night at the Emirates. What’s more striking is Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’s decision to go full...read more »

The January transfer window seems to always do this; 4 weeks of flirting between clubs, the odd loan deal going through, an under-pressure manager splashing out, a 'small' club holding onto their biggest asset and everything seems reasonable. Until Transfer...read more »

The brief was simple: win the league and in doing so make the most expensively assembled side in football history finish higher than last year's second place finish. The world’s best players had been brought in to no avail; Real...read more »

Written by Karl Sears We all know about Daniel Levy’s Olympic Stadium ambitions for Tottenham Hotspur. We also know that there are fans who are both for, and against the move. I am a fan who isn’t strictly opposed the Olympic...read more »

Written by Nicholas Edwards While watching the first half of the Arsenal v Ipswich game on Tuesday a thought popped into my head ‘Nicklas Bendtner is playing quite well on the right’. The whistle for half time was blown and I...read more »

Written by Ricky Murray The destined departure of Fabio Capello as coach of the English national team after Euro’ 2012 has ultimately led to many debates from the media to the pubs about who should replace the Italian when he eventually...read more »

Written by Barry Vinnicombe So Adebayor has signed for Real Madrid until the end of the season... Hands up if you saw that one coming? The possibility of a deal had already been doing the rounds at the beginning of the...read more »

For so long this season the same comments have been muttered by pundits, ex-professionals, fans, managers and anyone else involved directly or indirectly in football. Manchester United may be top, they may be unbeaten, but they haven’t played well. They...read more »