A chart showing Chelsea’s Premier League points per game average with and without Michael Essien in each of his six seasons there…
First-hand experience of cruciate ligament injuries ensures that Spoiler sympathies [...]
Read moreForget televised medicals and helicopters, it’s lion’s mask time!
Some things in football happen with such frequency that it is challenging for clubs to find ways of standing out, [...]
Read moreChelsea’s attempts to shop locally rarely produce good results
Luka Modric is bossing the back pages right now. The Croatian misguidedly assumed gentlemanliness to be a common characteristic of football folk and is now angry that Spurs won’t stick to an apparent gentleman’s agreement to let him [...]
Read moreReserved former star wades into debate about England failure
The Spoiler has previously challenged the widely-held view that Paul Scholes’ career-long shyness in the media was an indication that he was the ultimate professional, instead arguing that it could be because he has a tendency to talk [...]
Read moreThree videos from an unexpectedly lively weekend of football
The lack of major European club football hasn’t halted the entertaining YouTube video output whatsoever, with the likes of David Beckham, Dani Alves and the England women’s football team nobly contributing to the cause.
Given that it was a Beckham-dominated weekend, in which he also [...]
Read moreWest Brom admit plans for reunion with Hungarian playmaker
After weeks of tabloid tittle-tattle, West Brom have confirmed that they are in talks with former star Zoltan Gera about a Hawthorns comeback following the conclusion of his four-year affair with Fulham, but remarriages in football don’t always [...]
Read morePlease, no more new players Niall…
So as mentioned in our John O’Shea story, Sunderland are making sound progress in their attempts to sign the Irish defender, Wes Brown and Darron Gibson, while Sky Sports claim that Blackpool midfielder David Vaughan will be on his [...]
Read moreThe percentage of occasions since 1945 in which a relegated club has gone straight back up at the first attempt…
Birmingham have had to deal with their manager leaving [...]
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