Today’s world of rolling sports news, hourly club updates and saturated soccer coverage has given birth to a relatively modern but ever-present phenomenon – the club in crisis. Usually rearing its head sometime before Christmas, it’s a brooding cloud of uncertainty ready to strike any club with a lightning bolt of panic at any time, […]

As the classic A Tale Of Two Cities begins, “It was the best of the times, it was the worst of times.” However this weekend’s protagonists have a long and fabled history against one another with the backdrop being the city of Manchester — with the dominance for the best team in Manchester on the […]

Borussia Dortmund and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski stars in a brand-new FIFA 14 video that features the Ghost of Issac Newton. The video demonstrates how real ball physics come into play in FIFA 14. Instead of creating a boring tutorial video, you have to admit that FIFA used quite a bit of creativity in this […]

The latest episode of The Football Special, the weekly soccer/football animated series, is out. And it's a good 'un. Malcolm Best is joined by one nervous looking Jonjo Shelvey after his mixed performance against his former club. Also, The Football Special see Rickie Lambert as they've never seen him before, Martin O'Neill has a tough […]

Clint Dempsey’s move to the Seattle Sounders from Tottenham Hotspur was one of the more surprising moves of the summer transfer window. At the eve of last season, the American forward was a major transfer target and was one of the deadline-day dramas as Spurs plucked him away from a seemingly dithering Liverpool. So a […]

Tottenham Hotspur convincingly defeated Tromso 3-0 tonight in the UEFA Europa League. Striker Jermain Defoe scored two goals to take his European tally to 20, which is just two goals behind the record number of European goals scored by a Tottenham Hotspur player. The current record holder is Martin Chivers. In addition to the two […]

FIFA 14 will be released next week, while the FIFA 14 Next Gen version won't be released until mid-to-late November. It may be safe to say that this may be one of the biggest and last current gen sports releases before EA firmly sets its sights on the PS4 and XBox One versions. So after […]

Swansea City completely outplayed Valencia today in their first game of the Europa League Group Stage, recording the Welsh club's first win on the European continent since 1982 — 31 years ago. Swansea silenced the Valencia fans at the Mestalla when record signing Wilfried Bony opened the scoring for the Swans in the 13th minute. […]

AFC Ajax and FC Barcelona — has there ever been a pair of clubs, not from the same country, whose legacies and histories are so intertwined? Ajax, the Dutch masters of the 1970s, the team that invented Total Football and whose players catapulted the Netherlands to two straight World Cup Finals (and two straight losses) […]

Today kicks off the Group Stage of the 2013/14 Europa League with a whopping 24 matches available to watch on US television and Internet. Take your pick from the matches to watch. Personally, I'll be watching my beloved Swans take on Valencia. Starting line-ups: Swansea: Vorm, Rangel, Chico Flores, Amat, Tiendalli, de Guzman, Canas, Pozuelo, Dyer, […]

The Fantasy Premier League game isn’t just about goals, assists and clean sheets. That would be too simple. No, there's much more to it than that, and that is what makes this game so intriguing. It is as complex and absorbing as a manager chooses to make it. This game is about prediction. No one […]

NBC Sports achieved their largest viewing audience ever for a Premier League match last weekend when 917,000 people watched the September 14 12:30-3pm ET broadcast of Everton versus Chelsea live on the over-the-air NBC network, according to Sports Business Daily. The 917,000 viewing figure beat the number of viewers who tuned in for the opening […]

How would Tottenham, Lazio and Olympique Lyonnais fare? Group I Lyon and Real Betis are heavy favourites to qualify from Group I. Top spot in the group can really go either way – Lyon’s depth and experience in Europe gives them a slight edge, but Real Betis will want to do well in their first […]

Manchester United have set their sights on the United States as a market that is ripe for new commercial deals to bring the club millions more dollars to pay off their debt. Manchester United Executive Vice-Chairman Ed Woodward said: "The US market is under penetrated. It is a very big media market, the most developed […]

How would Fiorentina, Sevilla and Bordeaux fare? Group E Fiorentina are favorites to win the group, but it is never going to be easy. They were unlucky not to finish ahead of Milan in the league, and Italian sides rarely pay much attention to the Europa League. Last season, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won a strong group […]