Predictably, from the enemies’ camp, the huge knives are out to carve up Chelsea. And, as has become customary in these times, the Fickle Fans Brigade are also out in force with their own little razor-sharp blades to do complementary damage to their club in an attempt to appear ‘unbiased’. Chelsea’s crime is that they’ve [...]
It is now. The transfer window is shut and shut along with it are the hopes of millions of fans around the world – hope that the players they want arrive at their clubs and the ones they do not want move on or not come at all. As in everything in life, you win [...]
Something will have to give this weekend. As Sir Alex Ferguson would say, it’s squeaky bum time, and there’re no prizes for guessing whose bum is the squeakiest right now! Part of Arsenal’s ‘insurance’ in their face-off with Chelsea over Cole was the expected windfall to come to them from Reyes’ sale to Madrid. Arsenal [...]
When on Monday Arsene Wenger declared this week as “the last limit” he expects something to happen with Ashley Cole “one way or the other”, it was a sure sign that Arsenal had blinked first in their game of brinkmanship with Chelsea over the player’s possible transfer. If further confirmation was needed, it came in [...]
The news that William Gallas wouldn’t be joining his team-mates in the US is not what most Chelsea fans want to hear now - less than two weeks before we officially get the season underway with the traditional Charity Shield. The club’s statement about the situation no doubt reveals a deepening tension between the parties, [...]
Every transfer window, some loyal and long-suffering Chelsea fans who ‘suddenly’ found themselves two seasons ago dominating the Premiership and winning the big one are finding it difficult to accept the changes in the playing personnel at Chelsea and at the rate these changes take place. They’re used to relatively useful players signing up for [...]
When later tonight two men lead out their charges for the World Cup final showdown at Berlin Olympiastadion, football aficionados will be scrutinizing their every move on the touchline to see how these affect the direction or outcome of the game. Though this encounter may have thrown up seemingly different characters at the helms in [...]
In every one of those countries that have just lost in the World Cup quarter-finals (apart from Ukraine), the mother of all blame games is on. These postmortems are particularly emotional because even though everyone agrees that there are no easy games at that stage of the World Cup, these countries were supposedly the favourites [...]
The sparring is over; the business is on – Germany v Sweden, England v Ecuador, Argentina v Mexico, Holland v Portugal, Italy v Australia, Switzerland v Ukraine, Brazil v Ghana and Spain v France. So, who’s getting knocked out and who’s staying? Germany v Sweden: The Dutch-Indian, Leo Beenhakker did not leave Germany without disbursing [...]
While we are yet to still know fully what transpired in the just-exposed Arsenal-Beveren case, no one can deny that even the little we know so far has revealed once again the cruel face of football slave trade. But while we leave the matter to be unscrambled by the authorities, decent people should today be [...]
