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 June 11, 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo may have been the name on everyone’s lips today, but it was a thorough team effort that saw the Portuguese go through to the quarter-finals of Euro 2008. Even though he scored one and set up another, the current Manchester United winger was not totally on song today. The final scoreline didn’t do [...]
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.