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VIDEO: Pavlyuchenko’s Lazarus impression

Wigan 0-3 Spurs

For those of you far too busy chanting prayers to your respective gods to enjoy the weekend’s football, it was another topsy-turvy one for [...]

Go BONKERS, it’s Transfer Window Deadline Day!

Adam Johnson – City bound?

Right, to kick things off there are a few congratulations to get out of the way. Congratulations to Egypt for winning the Africa Cup of Nations. Congratulations to John Terry for managing to paint an even more abhorrent picture of himself than [...]

Transfer news: City and United both fancy Buffon, and more…

“Hmmm, City or United?”

Contrary to opinion, The Spoiler is not bulletproof. Feelings can be hurt, criticism can cut deep, and evenings can be spent weeping into a pillow – hungry, alone, and a bit thirsty. One such night happened last night, when this comment (from someone called “R”) [...]

Transfer news: Early birthday prezzie for Darren Ferguson…

“Thanks Dad!”

Sweet baby Moses, Mondays can hit a man in the underpants, as the heady weekend hours of boozing in some glitzy high street wine bar, then snogging a stranger’s mouth for twenty minutes in a doorway before puking and stumbling home become just a beautiful distant [...]

Transfer news: Zaki’s back, and Robinho’s off!

“Hello Hull!”

It wasn’t so long ago that Spartacus-lookalike Amr Zaki looked tailor-made for the Premier League. Dave Whelan, Wigan’s chairman, thought he was a bit like Alan Shearer, and his then-manager Steve Bruce used big words like “awesome” to describe the Egyptian.

Then it all went [...]

Where should Emile Heskey go this January?

Heskey – decisions, decisions

Whilst the rest of the nation laments the loss of Crimbo for another year, and returns to their old 2009 jobs, Emile Heskey’s frantic mind will have been whirring like an old screen projector in an art house cinema. The man has big decisions to [...]

Goal of the Season, perhaps?

Figueroa against Stoke

It was a truly brilliant football weekend for the Premier League, with Man United stumbling, Chelsea only drawing, and Arsenal urinating all over Rafa’s patatas bravas, [...]

Mirror Football and Wigan team up to scout new talent

Who?

12 hours later, and it still hasn’t been changed. The article isn’t a complete disaster though, as The Spoiler now knows four of the Palacios family have turned out for the Honduran national team at some point the past – an impressive feat not even [...]