Or at least that’s what the UEFA rankings are saying, after Liverpool moved back into the top spot ahead of Chelsea. The new rankings are based on results and the quality of your opponent in European competition over the last five seasons. [Read the rest of this entry »]

Sky Sports is turning live Premier League football into a regular monopoly after they were able to secure the rights to five of the six live packages starting next season. That’s one more than they previously had, meaning Setanta will no longer be hosting the Monday evening match as they have this season and in the past. [Read the rest of this entry »]

Match-fixing. It’s a word that sends chills down the back of any league of fan no matter who you support. Whilst match-fixing is one of those things you hear about once in a blue moon, everyone knows it’s still out there. We constantly question a match when a team comes back from three goals down to nick a draw; we wonder how a striker botched a goal from point-blank range. No matter what, it’s always in the back of our mind. [Read the rest of this entry »]

The COS Big Up brings you a daily batch of our favourite stories. Avast ye mateys!

Studs Up today riffs on Tottenham and the utter lack of cogent communication between Gaffer and Director of Football. [Read the rest of this entry »]

The COS Big Up brings you a daily batch of our favourite stories. Avast ye mateys!

Studs Up takes a look at Aston Villa and Tottenham, two Premier League scamps sticking it to the Big Four by digging their heels in and refusing to let their star players leave without huge vats of cash in compensation. (Studs Up) [Read the rest of this entry »]

You’d think that after watching former Crystal Palace striker Ashley-Paul Robinson’s social networking blunder blow-up in his face earlier this summer, other footballers would be a bit more careful when talking about their personal lives in such an open forum. Well apparently that doesn’t seem to be the case, as Ipswich Town now find themselves in the same predicament after a certain 23-year-old defender made it known that he no longer wants to play for the club on his Facebook page. [Read the rest of this entry »]

The COS Big Up brings you a daily batch of our favourite stories. Avast ye mateys!

Studs Up has a look at fat cat owners and their irresponsible spending ways, pouring huge vats of cash on new signings, and then realising that they aren’t as rich as they think they are. But would we be any better? (Studs Up)

And if you are truly appalling with money, why not fritter it away on ‘David Beckham: The Musical’? Surely as glorious a waste of your hard earned dosh as Andy Johnson was to Mo Al Fayed. (The Spoiler)

The Offside bemoans the fact that this has been one of the most craptastic transfer summers ever, and they feel like a donkey chasing a carrot because of it. (The Offside)

John Terry is a diver. So says Who ate all the pies, who have a picture to prove that JT could easily become a diver of Olympic proportions. (Who ate all the pies)

And finally, going completely off piste, The Spoiler has brought us a very unsettling picture of two female Olympic wrestlers engaging in what looks to be a spot of bum poking. (The Spoiler)