The most search for Prem players on the web

As we sit on the cusp of another Premier League season, the folks at Google have released figures of all their football related searches from the past month. The team above represents the most-searched for Premier League stars on the web based on their positions.

As you can see, most of them have been involved in transfer deals or speculation. David James’ relatively-surprising spot in the side is probably helped by his occasional newspaper columns, and Steven Gerrard can attribute his first team place to his impossibly persuasive legal team.

The most searched team was Liverpool with 16 million hits, then followed Chelsea (13m), Arsenal (9.1m) and Manchester Utd (9m). Bolton were the least searched for side with 250,000 hits.

Understandably, the most popular WAG was Cheryl Cole, and Howard Webb was the referee who earned the most online enquires.

Manchester City star suggests “headline” for autobiography

To put it lightly, Craig Bellamy is a little “hot-headed”. Aware that his past is chequered with golf club attacks, night club fights, chair hurling, fake injury threats, racially-aggravated assault and beating up women, the Manchester City star has joked about the way his life is documented on the interwebs:

If I ever do a book, the headline will be ‘Don’t Google Me.’

We were quite unaware that books had “headlines”, but in the name of investigative journalism, decided to Google him anyway. The results are quite surprising - the first page is filled with details about his charity work in Sierra Leone (with no mention of how he treats the charity workers out there), and one has to scroll through four pages before being greeted with “Bellamy burst into the room and battered Riise like a madman.”

Type in “Roy Keane walks dog” and see what happens

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