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Both on target for in-form Bayern

Barcelona remain five points clear at the top in Spain after they beat Getafe 2-1 at the Camp Nou. That hardly tells the whole story however as Barcelona ended the game with just nine…

Who’s Hot and Who’s Not?

United were great in their 5-0 win but I can’t give it to them because I reckon my Wilton Town side could beat Portsmouth at the moment!

We could go for Burnley, who got their first win…

Fans deserve better

What happens when the top team play against the bottom team? Almost always the bottom team play out of their skins and give the top team a fright. They battle and chase and hassle and work and give…

More celebrations for Wayne

Saturday 6th February

Bolton are in a relegation scrap and new manager Owen Coyle knows that they need to pick up points in games such as this one.

Fulham have an awful injury list and their win…

More cups on the way

It is a difficult time to be a Rangers fan up in Scotland at the moment. You would think that being ten points clear at the top of the SPL, in the final of the Co-operative…

Fans must be confused

Now that the dust has settled on the African Cup of Nations I thought it would be a good idea to look back on the tournament from a football perspective rather than at the awful events of…

Darragh MacAnthony

I am going to write about Peterborough United who are currently eleven points from safety at the bottom of the Championship. On transfer deadline day, a very strange day indeed, they sacked manager Mark Cooper and employed former Stockport…

Another winner from Pedrito

Not much change at the top of the league in Spain as Barcelona and Real Madrid both won. The gap between them and the rest increased though as fourth placed Sevilla beat third placed Valencia.

Leaders Barcelona…

Who’s Hot and Who’s Not?

Chelsea continue to win, Liverpool are steadying the ship, Villa are looking good and Everton have made an impressive about turn in their season. Birmingham continue to impress and their last minute equaliser against Spurs…

Terrible scenes

Just when I thought that in forty years of watching, playing, coaching, reading about, writing about and talking about football, there was nothing left that could surprise or shock me, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) make a decision…

Saturday 30th January

Birmingham’s fifteen game unbeaten run came to an unceremonious end on Wednesday at Chelsea. They will want to ensure that all the good work they have done is not threatened by two defeats in a row.

Tottenham…

United v City

The Carling Cup hasn’t really ever meant much in terms of being one of the big prizes. In all its various guises as the League Cup, Milk Cup, Littlewoods Cup, etc, most people would be hard pushed to…

Owen Coyle

Burnley have slipped into the bottom three in the Premier League after they lost 1-0 at relegation rivals Bolton on Tuesday evening. There is nothing too dramatic in that statement and the game would have gone largely unnoticed if…

His world being turned upside down!

The dangers and potential damage done of and by the involvement of agents in the game have been brought into focus again this week with the story circulating around a loan move for Kenwyne Jones…

Mourinho and Leonardo

The battle between the top two and the two Milan giants ended with Inter opening a nine point lead over AC Milan.

Inter’s 2-0 win in their home game at the San Siro was remarkable when you consider…

Who’s Hot and Who’s Not?

This has to be between Stoke and Birmingham. Alex McLeish’s men are on a fantastic run at the moment in the Premier League and they continued that form in the FA Cup with a great…

The main man

My colleague wrote an article a few weeks ago asking if England can win the world cup. In my view it is highly unlikely that they can but one thing is for certain. If Wayne Rooney was missing…

Wigan to fail here?

Just one Premier Leage game this week and twelve FA Cup fourth round ties involving Premier League clubs.

Saturday 23rd January

Premier League

United will be smarting from their defeat at Manchester City in the Carling Cup…

Let them get on with it!

The Carling Cup semi-final first leg between Manchester City and Manchester United on Tuesday certainly had a highly charged atmosphere. Some would say that the tension between the two sides is potentially as high as…

Staying or going?

Rafa Benitez showed the first signs of uncertainty around his position at Liverpool at the weekend when he said, “If I decide to stay here it will be because of the fans.” Much was made of the word…

Still got it?

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has made it clear that he would be more than happy to take Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy on loan. Of course, Tottenham already have Robbie Keane, Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe and…

Inter have just a six point lead over their city rivals AC Milan and the red half of the city also have a game in hand on the blues.

Whilst Inter were being held 2-2 at mid-table Bari, Milan were…

Who’s Hot and Who’s Not?

In any other week Everton would have won this award. They put in a quite magnificent display in their 2-0 win over Manchester City. David Moyes continues to do a remarkable job at Goodison Park…

Master-class

How good were Chelsea yesterday? I know Sunderland aren’t very good at the moment and they didn’t have their first choice back four on the pitch but they are still a mid-table Premier League side.

Class

Chelsea absolutely blew Sunderland away with…

Not smiling today?

I want to make one thing clear here. I am writing these predictions prior to the games on 26th December. If anything interesting, strange or unusual happened in those games I am not aware of it at the…

The skipper

As we approach the end of the decade somewhat annoyingly referred to as the ‘noughties’ I thought I would pick my team of the decade from the English Premier League.

It isn’t an easy task as there have been some…

Santa loves football

On Christmas Day it is only right that some of the people in football who have three points and other matters to worry about should not be forgotten when it comes to handing out presents.

Here is a short…

Top manager

Aston Villa go into the Christmas games in fourth place knowing that games against Arsenal and Liverpool could see them announce themselves as genuine title contenders.

Everyone at Villa Park is well aware that last February Villa found themselves in…

Man for the job?

Whilst the media and fans and, if you believe the press, the players are all more interested in the treatment of Mark Hughes at Manchester City, Roberto Mancini has taken the reins in a calm and unassuming…

On target

Barcelona remain two points clear at the top in Spain but Real Madrid are beginning to look more like the real deal and as though they may be able to mount a serious challenge to their old rivals.

With…