Chelsea’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 moreNice acting…
It’s come a bit too late for Carlo Ancelotti, but it turns out all you need to do to make Chelsea players happy is give them a [...]
Read moreMme. Domenech is ready to tear Nicolas Anelka a new one
France‘s crowning ceremony as international football’s biggest laughing stock was just as spectacular as expected yesterday. With sponsors deserting Les Bleus left, right and centre, the team crashed to a 2-1 defeat against South Africa. Boss [...]
Read moreSecond French star to suffer a vehicular mishap
France boss Raymond Domenech‘s increasingly perilous World Cup team building exercises have claimed another victim.
Just a week after William Gallas was left hanging out of an overturned dune buggy during a team race at their training camp [...]
Read morePlayer of the Year, says Lawrenson
He might lack the eloquence and dreamy sense of style of a John McCririck, but Mark Lawrenson still knows a sure thing when he sees one. And he saw one last night, damn it.
Talking after the Arsenal/Chelsea match highlights on [...]
Read moreEnglish sides secure victories in Europe
Chelsea 1/ Porto 0 The Blues didn’t exactly carry themselves with the confidence that has allowed them to steamroll through Premiership opposition so far this season, but they claimed a vital [...]
Read moreThe stars who have enjoyed facing their previous employers
This weekend, a whole host of players faced their former employers, most notably Emmanuel Adebayor at Eastlands and Dimitar Berbatov at White Hart Lane. Face kicking and celebrating aside, the former put [...]
Read more“Great” striker praises his own selflessness
Since earning the Premier League Golden Boot in 2006/07, Didier Drogba has failed to ripple the net on as many occasions as Nicolas Anelka. One might put this down to the fact that he didn’t play as many games as his stroppy [...]
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