Let’s face it, a leopard can’t change its spots. There seems little point trying to remove the aggression from Wayne Rooney’s game for fear of making him half the player he is. Nevertheless, it’s clear that whenever he’s pulled on an England shirt recently, the boy has become nothing short of a liability for his […]

There’s no doubt that Rafa Benitez is an astute manager. He’s won the Champions League and FA Cup since coming to Anfield, produced a run of decent Premiership campaigns on limited funds and proven himself to be an astute tactician, particularly in Europe.
But since the departure of Paco Ayesteran at the start of last […]

US midfielder Michael Bradley has been batting his eyelids towards Merseyside, hinting heavily that he wouldn’t be opposed to an Everton move. It remains to be seen, however, if Bradley will pass muster as his performance for the US against England didn’t exactly set the world ablaze. Here is a portion of the sickly-sweet come-and-get-me-plea […]

In times of yore, armies laying siege to a well-fortified citadel would occasionally resort to catapulting rotten plague-infected corpses over the city walls. In a modern day homage to this, Liverpool have lobbed craptastic cripple Harry Kewell over Hadrian’s Wall and towards Glasgow. Thankfully, for Celtic fans, Gordon Strachan appears to be having cold feet: […]

Cesc Fabregas was 17-years-old when he broke into the Arsenal first team and it’s possible that Aaron Ramsey will follow in his footsteps at the Emirates. However, the Gunners will have to up their bid for the Cardiff City midfielder after being told by the FA Cup finalists that they value their starlet at a […]

Setanta Sports reckons that Everton and Spurs are both ready to battle it out for Valencia’s Joaquin, who may well turn his nose up at both clubs and scamper into the arms of Roma. Joaquin’s agent Eduardo Espejo said:
“Clubs such as Roma, Everton and Tottenham are following him,”
“I went to England […]

Despite Robin Van Persie urging Arsenal to change their wage structure so that the likes of Cesc Fabregas and Emmanuel Adebayor would stay at the club, it appears that the pair are now going to stick around without doing anything so drastic. The Sun report that, despite Milan showing a great deal of interest in […]

Roberto Mancini’s sacking as Inter manager may have come as a shock, but his unemployed status may not be lasting very long according to the bookmakers. The Italian is strong favourite to become the next manager of Chelsea, with his agent hinting that his client would naturally be interested in the vacancy if there was […]

He was to be the glass-chewing “bad cop” to shuffling goon Avram Grant’s “good cop”, but it appears that Chelsea don’t want one without the other and so, despite claiming that his job was safe, Henk Ten Cate has been shown the door by the Chelsea’s number one suit, Peter Kenyon.
“Ten Cate told a […]

There was much talk before the start of last season over whether Tottenham Hotspur could challenge the ‘Big Four’ of Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal. As it turned out, Spurs didn’t even finish in the top half of the table, so that prediction was pretty wide of the mark (a bit like a Darren […]