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Blackburn sign Villanueva 2008-08-02 18:15:21 It has been announced that Blackburn
Rovers have signed Chilean midfielder Carlos Villanueva on loan for a year from Chilean club Audax Italiano. They have the ability to exercise an option in the contract that will allow them to sign Villanueva on a three-year contract for a pre-agreed fee.
At just 22 years old, Villanueva has [...]
Arshavin not Spurs Bound 2008-08-01 17:42:39 Reports have been circulating that Spurs
have cooled their interest in Zenit St Petersburg star player Andrei Arshavin after having prolonged talks with the Russian side throughout the week. It has been reported that Zenit had rejected a bid from Tottenham and the player’s agent was hopeful that the two clubs would broker a deal [...] Read more:Bound
Thuram announces retirement 2008-08-01 17:01:21 Former France international defender Lilian Thuram has announced that he is to retire from football with immediate effect. Thuram was due to sign for Paris Saint-Germain on a one year deal, however he announced the he has discovered a cardiac malformation and has subsequently announced the he can no longer play the game. The problem [...] Read more:retirement
UEFA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round Draw 2008-08-01 10:55:28 Premier League clubs Aston Villa and Manchester City have been given favourable draws against obscure opponents in the UEFA Cup Second Qualifying Round draw on Friday. Aston Villa will play against the Icelandic side Hafnarfjordur and Man City will be facing FC Midtjylland of Denmark, whose most notable former player is Egypt international striker Mohamed [...]
Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round Draw 2008-08-01 06:15:11 The draw for the first qualifying round of the UEFA ChampionsLeague
was made today, with the stand out match of the round the clash between Atlético Madrid and FC Schalke. Schalke made the quarter final stage last season before loosing 1-0 in both legs to Spanish giants FC Barcelona. They will undoubtedly provide a [...] Read more:Champions League
Barton charged for Dabo incident 2008-07-31 16:13:26 The FA has charged Newcastle’s Joey Barton
with violent conduct with regards to the assault of his ex-team mate Ousmane Dabo. Barton has just been released from jail this week having served two months of a six month sentence for assaulting a teenager. Earlier this month, Barton was convicted of assaulting Ousmane Dabo and given [...]
QPR in Parejo coup 2008-07-31 08:40:35 Queens Park Rangers have pulled off one of the signings of the summer by signing Real Madrid Castilla starlet Dani Parejo on a two-year loan from the Spanish side. Parejo is rated as one of the most promising players at the Santiago Bernabéu and Rangers have fended off stiff competition from La Liga giants Deportivo [...]
Zenit line up Arshavin Replacement 2008-07-31 05:27:54 Zenit St. Petersburg have allegedly made an €18 million bid for Marseille man Mathieu Valbuena. He must be viewed as a replacement for Russian international Andrei Arshavin, who since impressing at Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, has been tipped to join many of Europe’s top clubs including Barcelona, Real Madrid and Chelsea. However it [...]
Sébastien Bassong joins the Toon Army 2008-07-30 19:44:28 On Wednesday, it was announced that Newcastle United had agreed to sign FC Metz defender Sébastien Bassong for an undisclosed fee. Earlier this month, Bassong was offered a one-week trial at the North-East club and made his debut in a 1-0 defeat against Doncaster in which he played the full 90 minutes. Despite losing the [...]
Barry’s Liverpool Dream Over 2008-07-30 18:49:35 On Wednesday, Aston Villa announced that Gareth Barry
would be staying at the club and that he would not be moving to Liverpool
. Villa stated that a deadline had been agreed upon, and Liverpool failed to meet Villa’s demands, thus forcing Villa to call off any possible transfer.
It is believed that the price tag that [...] Read more:Dream
Premier League Round-up 2008-08-17 18:47:14 At last! The PremierLeague
season has started after its summer break and it certainly didn’t disappoint. The first day of the season will be savoured by Premier League
new-boys Hull City, who have never been in the top flight of English football. Fans of Stoke City have waited 23 years to get back to [...]
Premier League Preview Part 2 2008-08-17 16:32:31 This is the second part of a two-part series previewing the PremierLeague
season and this part will cover the teams in alphabetical order from Manchester United through to Wigan Athletic.
Manchester United
Sir Alex Ferguson has managed to fend off ferocious attempts from Real Madrid to sign star player Cristiano Ronaldo and this should hold them [...] Read more:Premier League
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Beijing 2008 Quarter-Final Round-up 2008-08-17 08:49:05 Saturday marked the quarter-final stage of the Men’s Olympic football tournament and the results have set-up a mouthwatering semi-final on Tuesday.
Brazil struggled against the Cameroon in their match, needing extra-time to finally dispatch of the African outfit. Cameroon frustrated the Brazilians throughout regulation time and it wasn’t until the 101st minute that Rafael Sóbis and [ Read more:Beijing
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Premier League Preview Part 1 2008-08-15 18:53:35 This is the first part of a two-part series previewing the 2008-2009 PremierLeague
season which kicks off this weekend with the opening match being Arsenal against newly promoted West Brom. The articles will take a look into each club’s chances for this season and as the teams will be looked at in alphabetical order, [...] Read more:Premier League
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Newcastle sign Coloccini 2008-08-15 12:47:47 Newcastle United have announced that they have signed Argentinian defender Fabricio Coloccini from Deportivo La Coruña on a five-year contract. Coloccini’s former club Deportivo have claimed that the transfer could rise to £10.3million.
Coloccini becomes Newcastle’s third transfer of the summer, following Danny Guthrie and Jonas Gutierrez into St James’ Park. Coloccini has bee Read more:Newcastle
UEFA Cup Qualifiers Round-up 2008-08-15 11:31:19 Thursday marked the start of the Second Qualifying Round of the UEFA Cup, with the winners of the ties qualifying into the first round of the competition. There are three British teams that are competing in this round, Man City, Aston Villa and Queen of the South. This report will talk about the happenings this [...]
Blackburn reject Santa Cruz bid 2008-08-14 12:56:33 Blackburn Rovers have announced that they have reject
ed an undisclosed bid from Man City and former-Rovers manager Mark Hughes for Paraguay striker Roque Santa
Cruz. Santa Cruz
, 26, has been at Rovers for only a season scoring 23 goals in his début season in English football. Blackburn have said that the bid was rejected immediately [...] Read more:Blackburn
Champions League Round-up 2008-08-13 19:17:32 On Tuesday and Wednesday, the 3rd qualifying round of the UEFA ChampionsLeague
first legs took place around Europe with giants such as Liverpool, Arsenal, Barcelona and Juventus all in action.
Arsenal managed to come through a tough tie against ex-England manager Steve McClaren’s FC Twente side, winning eventually 2-0. William Gallas scored the opening goal [...] Read more:Champions League
Lampard signs new contract 2008-08-13 12:26:00 On Wednesday, Chelsea called a press conference saying that they had to make a major announcement and sent the press into frenzy about what the announcement would be. The three possible stories were that Chelsea would announce they have captured Robinho from Real Madrid or Kaka from AC Milan or Lampard
signing a new contract
. [...] Read more:signs
Beijing 2008 Final Group Fixtures 2008-08-13 10:39:29 On Wednesday, the final round of preliminary group fixtures took place in the Men’s football tournament at the Olympic games. These matches would determine who would progress to the Quarter Final
stage and who would be going home.
Group
A didn’t spring up a surprise with scores going as expected. In the crucial game between Côte [...] Read more:Beijing
UEFA Super Cup: Man Utd v Zenit St Petersburg 2008-08-28 18:13:46 The venue will once again be the Stade Louis II in Monaco for the UEFA curtain raiser, seeing the UEFA Champions League champions face the UEFA Cup champions. Often clubs field weaker sides in this cup and concentrate on the league, however this time, Sir Alex Ferguson says he will play a strong team. His [...] Read more:Man Utd
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Reds Scrape Through: Champions League Round-up 2008-08-27 19:28:46 Wednesday marked the second-legs of the 3rd Round Qualifying for the UEFA ChampionsLeague
with the winners of each tie going through to the group stage of the competition and pocketing a substantial amount of prize and TV revenue in the process. There were two British sides taking part on Wednesday with Arsenal leading FC [...] Read more:Champions League
Keane Maintains Disciplinary Hard Line 2008-08-25 05:15:52 On Saturday, Pascal Chimbonda was left out of the Sunderland side for their trip to White Hart Lane, after turning up late to a pre-match walk around the teams hotel. This is not the first time that Sunderland manager Roy Keane
has been quick to discipline his players for being late, and it is unlikely [...]
Argentina grab Olympic Football Gold 2008-08-23 13:21:02 Saturday marked the last day of the Men’s Olympic
football tournament the 2008 Beijing Games. The decision to stage the final match of the tournament at the Birds Nest Stadium allowed 89,000 fans to watch the game but it was scheduled to be staged at 12.00pm, in the searing Chinese heat. Play had to be [...] Read more:Argentina
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Healy and Cissé join Sunderland 2008-08-21 17:50:53 Sunderland have announced that they have signed David Healy
on a three-year transfer from Fulham and Djibril Cissé on a year-long loan from Olympique Marseille thus bolstering their strike force for the season. The fee for David Healy is undisclosed, however it is believed to be around £1.2million.
Roy Keane has significantly strengthened the attacking position [...]
England fail to impress: International Round-up 2008-08-21 14:48:46 On Wednesday evening, the first international fixture of the season took place for the home nations with England
facing the 8th ranked Czech Republic, Scotland facing Northern Ireland and Wales against Georgia. Tonight’s fixtures were the only opportunity for the respective managers to try out new things ahead of the World Cup Qualifying campaign.
The match [...] Read more:International
Shevchenko Return to Rossoneri 2008-08-20 17:41:16 One of AC Milan’s prodigal sons is set to return it has been revealed. Andriy Shevchenko
can be considered a flop at Chelsea, having cost a princely sum of £30 million and hefty wages on top of that.
Shevchenko came to Chelsea as Europe’s third highest ever scorer, but failed to live up to his [...] Read more:Return
Beijing 2008 Semi-Finals Round-up 2008-08-19 13:13:02 On Tuesday, the Semi-Finals of the Olympic Men’s football tournament took place and the spots in the final for the gold medal match and who would be fighting for Bronze. The more glamorous fixture between the reigning gold medallists Argentina and Brazil certainly didn’t disappoint and the other semi-final between Nigeria and Belgium was a [...] Read more:Beijing
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