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Barnsley Knock Out Chelsea 2008-03-08 13:57:34 Championship strugglers Barnsley beat Chelsea
1-0 in todays second quarter final. The Tykes had the better of the game in the first half while Chelsea struggled to make any headway.
Chelsea came out stronger in the second half but still managed to muster very little, and when Barnsleys, Kayode Odejayi, headed the goal from six yards [...] Read more:Knock
Portsmouth knock out Man Utd 2008-03-08 10:25:52 Harry Redknapp’s Portsmouth
, beat Manchester United, 1-0 at Old Trafford, to progress into the FA Cup semi finals.
In a dramatic end to the game, United substitute keeper Tomasz Kuszczac upended Milan Baros, giving Portsmouth a penalty. The goalkeeper, who had replaced the injured Van de Sar at half time was sent off, and Rio Ferdinand took his [...]
Redknapp shows confidence in Portsmouth selection 2008-03-08 07:11:56 Harry Redknapp has demonstrated his confidence in his Portsmouth
team, who are about to face Manchester United at Old Trafford in one of the FA cup quarter finals.
He says of his team selection
:
“We’ll go there with exactly the same system that has won us so many games away from home. Two wide men (Utaka and [...]
Owen Was Liverpool Target: Benitez 2008-03-08 06:20:04 How different things could have been for Michael Owen this season, after Rafael Benitez
revealed that Liverpool
were ready to bring the Kop favorite back to Anfield last summer.
Owen was apparently one from a list of ten strikers that Benitez had is eye on during the close season. Topping the list, one Fernando Torres, the [...] Read more:Target
Mourinho would love to return to Chelsea 2008-03-07 04:06:02 The Premier league this season is set to run to the wire, with almost every club, excepting Derby County, having something to play for. The battle at the top is as exciting as the fight to avoid the dreaded relegation zone and the outcome is anything but predictable.
Even so, something has been missing for most of the [...] Read more:Chelsea
Arsenal outgun AC Milan 2008-03-05 05:53:32 Last night I watched a young Arsenal
side play the most beautiful passing football I think I have ever seen; and in the process, outgunning a very good AC Milan
side to win 2-0.
Arsenal became the first English team to beat AC Milan in the Champions League at the San Siro stadium in Milan. The [...]
Lampard red card rescinded 2008-03-04 10:33:02 Following Middlesbrough’s fury at the FA last week, for dismissing Jeremie Aliadiere’s appeal against the soft red card he picked up at Liverpool, and adding another one game ban for what the FA termed a frivolous appeal, it was interesting to see how the FA would deal with the case of Chelsea’s Frank Lampard
.
Boro boss [...]
Liverpool favourites for fourth place: David Moyes 2008-03-03 11:06:49 Everton manager David
Moyes has heaped pressure on local rivals Liverpool
by insisting that the Anfield team should be able to clinch the fourth
spot in the Premier league.
Everton are currently three points ahead of Liverpool with the Reds having a game in hand. But it is Everton that have had the better run of [...]
Carragher cautioned for common assault 2008-02-28 07:52:05 Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has been arrested and charged by the police with common assault, following an incident on Tuesday morning.
The player was involved in an altercation while on his way to the Liverpool training ground. A witness had called the police after seeing two men arguing in the street, they identified one of the [...]
Liverpool Breeze Past Inter Milan 2008-03-12 05:30:23 Liverpool breezed into the Champions League quarter finals, with another superb display, beating Serie A leaders InterMilan
1-0 on the night and 3-0 on aggregate.
Fernando Torres, who else?, scored the goal last night in the 64th minute, leaving Inter needing to score four and with only ten men on the pitch.
A magnificent display by [...] Read more:Breeze
, Liverpool
Newcastle Monitor Scottish League Players 2008-03-11 08:29:35 Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan has revealed that he may be looking to Scotland to bolster his flagging squad.
Keegan, who was in Glasgow at the launch of a new initiative for his Soccer Circus, suggested that Scotland is likely to see many Premier League
managers looking at Scotland ‘because there is some talent there.’
While the rest [...] Read more:Monitor
, Newcastle
, Players
, Scottish
Hicks Says No To DIC Investment In Liverpool 2008-03-11 07:49:29 Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks
has ended talks with Dubai International Capital (DIC), after failing to agree on a management strategy for the club.
The talks were thought to be at an advanced stage when Hicks statement appeared on the Liverpool FC website. Hicks saying simply that he has ended talks with DIC, although he and his [...] Read more:Liverpool
FA Cup Semi Final Draw 2008-03-10 10:27:14 Giant killers Barnsley and Cardiff will face each other in one of the FA cup semi finals drawn today. Portsmouth face the third Championship team left in the pot, West Bromwich Albion.
Portsmouth are the bookmakers favourites obviously, but after a weekend of quarter final shocks, anything could happen. From not having a chance against United, [...] Read more:Final
West Brom Shatter Rovers Dreams in FA Cup 2008-03-09 15:10:51 Bristol Rovers
dream of causing a fourth cup upset in the last of the FA Cup quarter finals, ended in tatters, as Championship promotion hopefuls West Brom
wich Albion brushed them aside in a 5-1 win.
West Brom started as favourites, but with the way the other quarter final games have gone this weekend , some show of nerves would [...] Read more:Dreams
Cardiff Knock Out Middlesbrough 2008-03-09 11:17:17 What an FA Cup weekend it’s turning out to be. Middlesbrough
were outplayed by a far superior and more determined effort from Cardiff
. The Bluebirds winning by 2-0 this afternoon.
Middlesbrough never really got into the game despite having the advantage of playing at home. And like Chelsea yesterday they got everything they deserved.
Cardiff scored within [...] Read more:Knock
Champions League Draw 2008-03-14 08:09:58 Here is todays draw for the ChampionsLeague
Quarter and Semi Finals:
Champions League
quarter-final draw:
1 Arsenal v Liverpool
2 AS Roma v Man Utd
3 Schalke 04 v FC Barcelona
4 Fenerbahce v Chelsea
The quarter final games will be played on April 2nd and 9th.
Semi Finals will be played on April 23rd and 30th.
Champions League semi-final draw:
1 Arsenal/Liverpool [...]
Keegan, Two Games To Change Things 2008-03-14 07:17:16 According to reports in The Daily Mail, Newcastle owner Mike Ashley has growing concerns over the ability of Kevin Keegan
to turn around the Magpies dreadful season.
Keegan who has managed just two points since taken over as club manager is said to have only two games to change things, as the club faces the real possibility of being [...] Read more:Change
, Games
Bolton Out, But Rangers In Last Eight Of UEFA Cup 2008-03-14 05:31:27 Bolton manager Gary Megson showed where his teams priorities lie, by leaving out seven first team regulars for the visit to Sporting Lisbon. Clearly he feels Premiership survival is more important to the club than the progressing to the last eight of the UEFA cup.
The Bolton team worked hard, but needed a goal to progress, [...] Read more:Bolton
, Eight
, Rangers
Derby To Face United Next 2008-03-13 09:31:15 I bet Paul Jewell can’t wait until the weekend. After a sound thrashing from Chelsea last night, Jewell’s Derby County, face the might of Manchester United
at Pride Park on Saturday.
Mr Angry had his United team in for training on Monday, as penance for getting knocked out of the FA cup, by upstarts Portsmouth, and [...]
Everton And Spurs Lose Out On Penalties 2008-03-13 05:35:11 Perhaps against the odds, both Everton
and Spurs
pulled themselves back into their respective UEFA cup games. Everton trailing two nil from the first leg at Fiorentina, pulled themselves level on aggregate in a pulsating 90 minutes of football in which Everton created chance after chance to seal the game.
The Everton goals came from Andy Johnson [...]
Arsenal Moving Backwards 2008-03-17 10:51:46 Arsenal captain William Gallas has spoken about why Arsenal could destroy AC Milan in the Champions league and yet drop nine of a possible twelve available points in their recent games in the Premiership.
He says ‘It was in the head. It is human nature after a big game in Europe, it is difficult to find the same motivation [...] Read more:Arsenal
, Backwards
, Moving
Derby Show Pride Against United 2008-03-15 12:26:44 Derby County put the pride into Pride
Park after their thrashing at Chelsea last week. The Rams showed a stubborn resistance to the strength of Manchester United
and for 75 minutes looked as though they might cause the biggest upset of the day.
Derby harried United and also played some good passing football throughout the game, [...]
United Go Clear As Chelsea Draw In Eight Goal Thriller 2008-03-19 17:17:41 Manchester United
moved three points clear at the top of the premier league, two goals from Ronaldo, who else?, seeing off Bolton.
Chelsea
missed the chance to go level on points with Arsenal in a 4-4 draw at White Hart Lane.
Drogba scored within three minutes for Chelsea, but bogey man Jonathon Woodgate put Spurs level on [...] Read more:Clear
, Eight
, Thriller
Police In Dawn Raid At Birmingham City 2008-03-19 13:40:43 City of London police paid an unexpected visit on Birmingham
City football club this morning. The officers seized computers and other records from the Premier League club.
It is thought that the raid was in connection with the ongoing investigation , which saw agent Willie McKay and Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp arrested in December.
Police
confirmed that [...]
Ebbsfleet United Reach FA Trophy Final 2008-03-21 12:31:30 So far so good for the team who have been taken over by internet website MyFootballClub.
Ebbsfleet United
reached the FA Trophy
final after a second leg semi-final 1-1 draw with against Aldershot, winning 2-4 on aggregate.
Ebbsfleet United are on their way to Wembley for the first time in their history and will meet Torquay United [...] Read more:Final
, Reach
Premier Race Mind Games Continue 2008-03-21 08:25:00 Rafa Benitez has accused rival Sir Alex Ferguson of attempting to influence the match officials before the crucial game on Sunday, at Old Trafford.
Ferguson, who hasn’t stopped complaining about refereeing decisions since United were knocked out of the FA cup by Portsmouth, has now picked up on his other pet talking point, protection for his [...] Read more:Continue
, Games
, Premier
Beckham recalled to England squad 2008-03-21 08:14:49 The England
manager, Fabio Capello has named David Beckham
in a provisional 30-man squad to play France in Paris on 26th March.
Capello made it clear, when he left Beckham out of his first squad to face Switzerland, that the door was not shut on David Beckham’s career; and with this recall it looks likely that [...] Read more:recalled
Mancini Out Mourinho in? 2008-03-20 13:21:23 I heard Roberto Mancini
is going to quit Inter Milan at the end of the season.
Mancini made his announcement shortly after Fernando Torres’ goal saw the Serie A leaders get knocked out of the UEFA Champions League by Premier League Liverpool at the San Siro to seal a 3-0 aggregate defeat.
Club president Massimo Moratti must [...]
Sunday Premier League 2008-03-23 17:00:06 Sir Alex Ferguson must have been chuckling like Dick Dastardly, at half time in United’s SundayPremier
league game with Liverpool. He had just seen his side on top for most of the first half, taking the lead and then Liverpool going down to ten men on the stroke of half time.
Everything was falling into place [...] Read more:League
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