The Gareth Barry to Liverpool rumours seem to have finally hit a quiet period (bless!), and from the looks of things, it has finally given way to new talk about a certain highly-rated Danish striker named Nikola Saric.

With four months remaining until England’s first World Cup qualification game against Andorra, manager Fabio Capello has hinted that he’s narrowed down the search for the squad’s next captain to two names: Steven Gerrard and Rio Ferdinand.
The Sun is reporting that Gerrard is a slight favourite to take over the captaincy on a more permanent […]

Guest written by Nathaniel of Soccer Source.
With Fabio Capello reportedly set to take over the England manager job vacated by Steve McClaren, now is as good a time as any to close two concurrent polls Soccer Source has been running for the past fortnight. The polls asked readers to predict where England will finish […]

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite ,or more formally known as Kaka, has won the World Football Player of the Year. With past winners including the likes of Cannavaro, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo, Kaka was able to beat Manchester United’s Christiano Ronaldo (2nd) and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (3rd). The 25-year-old received 444 points in a France Football […]

You could be forgiven for thinking that Croatia were on a par with the 1970 Brazil team when skimming through Monday’s newspapers. The tabloids were quick to get themselves in a tizzy, making utterances such as “Oh No! It’s Cro” (The Sun) and “Here We Cro Again” (Daily Mirror).
Even the regularly-excellent Kevin McCarra at The […]

The Telegraph is reporting that Sir Bobby will be given the BBC Sports Personality of the Year’s ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award next month, surrounded by former players from Ipswich Town’s FA and Uefa Cup-winning squads, as well as the international players who played under his management. Previous winners have included Sir Alex Ferguson and Pele, […]

The Daily Mail is today telling us that ‘The Premiership is the biggest league of nations in the world’. The Daily Mail triumphantly yells that ‘new research reveals that more than half — 316 of 569 — the players in the top flight last season were foreign.’
So, the Premier League has the largest amount […]

Football FanCast’s Michael Adams says what we’ve all been thinking about what we’re forced to watch in lieu of the Premiership.
I heard an interview with Arsene Wenger a while ago where he was asked if he would ever consider managing at international level. This was around a time when the English FA were stumbling from […]

Sepp Blatter news is great for two reasons, one of which is the opportunity to use our favourite photo of all time.
The other is that, in a move destined to improve his popularity no end, Sepp Blatter revealed how much money he earns for suggesting female football players wear tighter shorts and that we […]

Former Juventus boss and World Cup winning hero Marcelo Lippi has left no stone unturned as he explain to The Sun (riiiight) that he is ready to pop his Premiership cherry,
I’m aware that I’m on the wanted list at a number of big clubs, but specifically at Chelsea, and I regard that as only natural,” […]