Highly Sought After
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.
Tags: Ashley Cole, Cheryl Cole, David James, dream team, Glen Johnson, Google, Howard Webb, Javier Macherano, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs, Steven Gerrard
Posted: August 13th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey
Link Dump
Also appearing on a computer near you…
John Barnes, Pat Cash and Austin Powers Healey want you to buy Mars bars
This is the kind of skateboarding we want to see
[WithLeather]
Spot the difference: Steven Gerrard’s kiss v Ryan Giggs’ kiss
[Pies]
Liverpool target Queen lovin’ defender David Wheater
[Caught Offside]
Chelsea have reportedly sealed the long anticipated Yuri Zhirkov deal
[Daily Mail]
Frank Lampard’s pouty ex Elen Rives is about to become 14 million Euros heavier
[Kickette]
Tags: Chelsea, David Wheater, elen rives, Frank Lampard, John Barnes, Middlesbrough, Premier League, Ryan Giggs, Skateboarding, Steven Gerrard, Transfer news, WAG, Yuri Zhirkov
Posted: May 29th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey
Crimewatch
Suspicious party discovered during Champions League Final
Those who believe that illegal activity could not possibly occur in a £1.3m mock Tudor mansion purchased by a footballer are in for a shock. While watching her son Ryan Giggs lose the Champions League Final in Rome on Wednesday night, police raided Lynne Johnson’s home and discovered a drugs party, which may have in fact been a sexy drugs party.
The Sun reports:
The Premier League star was said to be “hit for six” by the “unauthorised” bash at the £1.3million six-bed mansion.Lynne and Giggs’s half-sister Bethany, 17, had travelled to watch United’s defeat on Wednesday.
Cops were alerted after Lynne’s 91-year-old next-door neighbour spotted men pull up in two cars at the pad in Worsley, Greater Manchester.
A cop arrived to see two or three men and a woman run to the rear of the house

Tags: Drugs, Lynne Johnson, Manchester Utd, Mansion, Police, Raid, Ryan Giggs
Posted: May 29th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey
END OF SEASON REVIEW
Sadly there’s no room for player of the year Ryan Giggs here…

It’s another end of season list, but with a twist. To stop a roundup of the 08/09 Premier League team of the season descending into a top 4 love-in, we’ve tried to limit ourselves to only one player from each club. Sticklers for punishment that we are, we’re also rigidly sticking to a classic 4-4-2. It all ended up being a lot harder than we gave it credit for:
GK - Manuel Almunia (Arsenal)
Pulled off some super saves, stopped an inordinate amount of penalties, and has been good enough to have this ridiculous nonsense about him playing for England rise to the surface again. The Spanish keeper has come a long way from Jens Lehmann’s assessment he was to rubbish to play for Arsenal.
DR - Rory Delap (Stoke)
Rory Delap made a healthy contribution to securing Stoke’s top flight status, earning priceless league (and mental) victories against the big boys at a time when Stoke were looking the unfashionable new kids while Hull cakewalked it. He spent most of the season in midfield but his position is almost irrelevent for what he brings to the team.
DL - Luke Young (Aston Villa)
Playing completely out of position, covering for a crocked Wilfred Bouma and an absolutely dreadful Nicky Shorey, isn’t an ideal way to start your first season a new club, but Young has done the job manfully, without complaint and more often than not, impressively.
DC - Phil Jagielka (Everton)
One of the most reliable performers of the season until that heartbreaking injury, Jags has had a superb campaign, reaping benefits in the form of England

Tags: Amr Zaki, Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Ashley Young, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Dirk Kuyt, Everton, Hull, Jens Lehmann, Liverpool, Luke Young, Manchester City, Manchester United, manuel almunia, Nicky Shorey, Nicolas Anelka, PFA Player of the Year, PFA Young Player of the Year, Phil Jagielka, Premier League, Robinho, Rory Delap, Ryan Giggs, Spurs, Stephen Ireland, Stoke, Team of the Season, Tottenham, Wigan, Wilfred Bouma, Wilson Palacios
Posted: May 25th, 2009 by Richard Gilzene
END OF SEASON REVIEW
“Tek a bow, son(s)”
With the end of the 2008/09 campaign only 24hrs away, The Spoiler takes a look back at the season’s finest goals and reveals our picks for the twenty greatest efforts. Part one documents goals 20-11…
#20: Ryan Taylor - Wigan 2-1 Newcastle, 26/12/08
The only goal we couldn’t get those new-fangled moving pictures for (19 out of 20 aint bad); Ryan Taylor’s free-kick for Wigan against Newcastle was the final straw for the Toon. Their cunning solution to stopping Taylor habitually scoring against them (4 in his last 4 meetings) was to just buy him off the Latics. It was also one of the finest dead ball strikes in what was a relatively lean season for spectacular free-kicks.

Tags: Andrei Arshavin, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Blackburn, Cesc Fabregas, Cristiano Ronaldo, Daniel Sturridge, Didier Zokora, Federico Macheda, Fulham, Jermain Defoe, luka modric, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle, Peter Crouch, Ricardo Fuller, Robinho, Ryan Giggs, Ryan Taylor, Samir Nasri, Stoke, Video, Wayne Rooney, West Ham, Wigan, zoltan gera
Posted: May 23rd, 2009 by Richard Gilzene
No room for Ronny
Welsh midfielder may not think much of C-Ron

Keen to create a divide between Cristiano Ronaldo and his current employer, Spanish paper Marca are stirring things up extracting some insinuations from an interview with teammate Ryan Giggs.
The Welshman was asked to pick his Manchester Utd dream team, and he proceeded to wax lyrical about the likes of Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Wayne Rooney. As you can see from his selection below, however, there is a distinct absence of any lothario Portuguese wingers:
The Giggs Manchester Utd dream team
Schmeichel or Van der Sar (he doesn’t distinguish between them as both are super brill)
Gary Neville
Jaap Stam
Rio Ferdinand
Dennis Irwin
David Beckham
Paul Scholes
Roy Keane
Ryan Giggs
Eric Cantona
Wayne Rooney
The Spoiler is concerned that the old guard has shown an apparent lack of appreciation for Ronaldo, but perhaps a little more concerned that Giggsy chose to pick himself in his own dream team…
Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham, Dennis Irwin, dream team, Eric Cantona, Gary Neville, Jaap Stam, Manchester Utd, Paul Scholes, Rio Ferdinand, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, van der Sar, Wayne Rooney
Posted: May 20th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey
Where Sport Meets Porn
Anderson can hardly believe what he is seeing

Last night, Ryan Giggs found out exactly why the Estadio do Dragao has such a fearsome reputation. Thanks to Spoiler reader Sarah for submitting this classic example of Champions League Sporno. If you’ve seen any great sport/ porn hybrids lately, send them here and we’ll make you one thousand pennies richer if we use it.
Click here to see the full Sporno gallery
Tags: Estadio do Dragao, Manchester Utd, Porn, Porto, Raul Meireles, Ryan Giggs, Sporno, Sport
Posted: April 16th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey
HAVE YOUR SAY
Porto/Man Utd, Champions Lge QF 2nd leg, 7.45pm, Sky Sports 2
With only Owen Hargreaves, Wes Brown and Darren Fletcher certain to miss out through injury, Sir Alex Ferguson isn’t short of options for tonight’s second leg at Estadio do Dragao. The Manchester United boss often favours a 4-3-3 for European games but here’s how The Spoiler would line the holders up:

We’ve chosen 4-4-2 and have opted for the tireless grafting of Park Ji-Sung and Carlos Tevez over the experience of Ryan Giggs and Dimitar Berbatov’s calmness and occasional brilliance. Do you agree with our selections? Let us know with a comment below.
Tags: Carlos Tevez, Champions League, Darren Fletcher, Dimitar Berbatov, Estadio do Dragao, Manchester United, Owen Hargreaves, Park Ji-Sung, Porto, Ryan Giggs, sir alex ferguson, Wes Brown
Posted: April 15th, 2009 by Michael Lintorn