by admin on June 13, 2009
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Hands up if you know or remember the first soccer player in England to be worth over 1 million? Don’t know? It was Trevor Francis. He was transferred from Birmingham to Nottingham Forest in 1979 where the legendary Brian Clough was the manager.
Thirty years later and soccer players are transferred for that amount [...]
by admin on July 31, 2008
So many of you who don’t follow the non-superstar clubs in the Barclays Premier League may not realise that there’s been a certain bone of contentment over the Newcastle United player Joey Barton. Mr Barton was sent to Strangeways prison for an assault on a night out (he was also involved with the beating up [...]
Every pre-season there’s normally a new rule that the English F.A seem to want to establish. This year it looks like it’s the tackle from behind. Referees in the Barclays Premier League have been instructed to show zero tolerance to bad tackles by showing a straight red (yes, that includes first time offenders).
Apparently the new [...]
Alex Ferguson must be seething. When one of the world’s best players wants to leave your soccer club, any manager or coach would be devastated. Real Madrid have been been keeping tabs on Ronaldo and his desire to join the Spanish giants hasn’t exactly been kept quiet.
