Transfer trouble

Madrid star holds press conference to announce his head has joined Chelsea

Sincerely hopes club allows the rest of his body to follow

On the opening Sunday of the Spanish league season, Real Madrid’s problematic Brazilian Robinho prepared for the long slog ahead by calling an extraordinary press conference and announcing “My head is in Chelsea.”

While Madrid were getting ready to raise the curtain against Deportivo [...]

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Alan Shearer forecasts good things for Steve Bruce

Sum of human knowledge greater than it was yesterday

With television rights to the weekend football highlights package up for discussion again shortly, this may be the penultimate season viewers of Match of the Day get to enjoy Alan Shearer and Mark Lawrenson yawning back at them from a BBC sofa each Saturday night.

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Football News

Six reasons why Arsenal will beat Newcastle

It’s going to be raining tears in Newcastle…

Newcastle fans

A convincing win over Schteve McClaren’s FC Twente may have settled some Arsenal nerves, but won’t go nearly as far as to detract from their miserable showing at Fulham. Their visitors this weekend, Newcastle, will harbour frightening [...]

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Kerrazy Guy!

David Bentley dances around on live television, the clown

Hark, it’s the village idiot!

Everyone knows that those idiots who stand behind live reporters gurning and waving to their invisible friends grow up to be unfathomable cretins. This will come as very bad news to anyone who happens to count David Bentley as their pal.

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Tough Guy

Be afraid Everton!

This man stands between you and the goal…

The big UEFA Cup news is that Everton have drawn Standard Liege in the first round. That’s one tough draw. All made slightly less terrifying by the emergence of some pictures of the Belgian team’s enormous centre back, Oguchialu Jacob Onyewu – otherwise known as Gooch – [...]

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Money Matters

Isn’t it time Arsenal took on some investment?

Would you trust this man with your club?

Alisher Usmanov

While balancing the books may win Arsenal plaudits in the business world, supporters fail to see the honourable value of trading within one’s own means, and are becoming increasingly impatient with the lack of investment in the playing staff. [...]

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WAG of the day

WAG No. 165: Maria Mazza

A man actually left this woman…

It’s easy to forget that not all beautiful ladies get the chance to become WAGs, and even when they do, their stint as the most lucky woman alive can be short lived. Beyonce Knowles, Helen of Troy and Jenny Agutter are just three gorgeous girls [...]

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