Well, shall we get some of the cliches out of the way first?  Right, let’s see now, It’s a funny old game!  A week is a long time in football, you get the picture.  I’m sure I could go on and no doubt you’ve thought of a few yourself. Continue reading →

It was certainly shock news that Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho had parted company with the Blues and one thing is certain, there will be sports journalist all over the world who will be crying into their beer. Continue reading →

So Paul Ince’s short reign as Blackburn Rovers manager has finally come to an end.

Ince was appointed as manager in the summer after more successful spells at Macclesfield and MK Dons. Continue reading →

All you regular readers of The Soccer Blog out there will know I am a subscriber and a big fan of a newsletter called The Fiver.  It is published every afternoon and today’s edition has just popped into my ever bulging Inbox. Continue reading →

The news that Ruud van Nistelrooy could be available this summer for as little as £1million should have plenty of Premier League bosses scrambling to acquire his services. Continue reading →

Former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon has already started his campaign for votes as he aims to be re-elected at the Bernabeu. Continue reading →

Arsenal and Arsene Wenger produced the best possible response to all their recent critics, including the ones calling for Wenger to leave, by beating the current Champions Manchester United in an excellent and thrilling game of football at the Emirates on Saturday. The result of which leaves Arsenal still firmly in the title race. It was the perfect response at the end of a difficult week to 10 days, in fact ever since they relinquished the 4 – 2 lead against Spurs in the final few moments. The fans at the Emirates are certainly getting full value for money entertainment wise recently, although I don’t suppose too many of them would argue that the Spurs game was “entertaining” for them! Continue reading →

Here is the 08/09 Premier League Table. I will be updating the Table as soon as the Premiership kicks off on 16th August. Which team will be sitting proudly at the top come next May? Cast your own vote now in the Poll just to the left of the page. At the time of writing it looks like a 2 horse race this year between Liverpool and Man Utd, both with 33% of the vote. Update: Chelsea are receiving a lot more votes now. Very interesting and I hope the actually title race is as hotly contested! Continue reading →

On a dark and very wet autumn evening in North London Tottenham rode their luck and Liverpool’s ran out as Spurs cut short the Reds unbeaten start to the league season. Meanwhile, earlier in the day, their North London rivals, Arsenal, were potentially kissing their title hopes good-bye after they succumbed to the lethal weapon that is Rory Delap’s amazingly long throw-ins. Continue reading →