Before today, the last time Liverpool were in the bottom three of the Premier League was after the opening day of the very first Premier League season. That day they lost 1-0 to Nottingham Forest. But any team can be near the bottom after losing its opening fixture of a season. Prior to that, the […]

The old saying is that a good team can grind out a result when they are not playing well. Well Manchester City did that today with a hard fought win over an impressive Newcastle United side. If there is one that that City boss has brought to the club since his arrival last December, it […]

Tottenham playmaker Rafael van der Vaart is certainly enjoying his start to life in the Premier League. The Dutch midfielder, who signed for Spurs on deadline day from Real Madrid, completed an impressive week with an excellent brace in his side’s 2-1 win over Aston Villa yesterday. The double took his tally to four goals […]

Saturday night was a big night for the New York Red Bulls as they finally had destiny in their own hands. It was a big match for the club as they needed a single win to put themselves into the postseason and you thought this was going to be a goal fest from the beginning […]

Arsenal and Chelsea face each other in both club's biggest game of the season today. We'll get a chance to see whether Chelsea's loss to Manchester City was an anomaly or whether Chelsea is as human as they seem to be. Plus we'll get to see whether this season's Arsenal are the real deal or […]

Saturday's Bundesliga action featured the highs and the lows of Bundesliga life: from Mainz taking their winning streak to seven in a row and equalling the record for best Bundesliga start of all time, to Felix Magath's Schalke stumbling to a disappointing loss at Nurnberg. Sunday's action promises to be just as exciting. VfB Stuttgart […]

Manchester United missed the chance to put some real pressure on early season pace-setters Chelsea with a disappointing draw at Sunderland. But perhaps a more worrying consequence to come from the game for Sir Alex Ferguson was the desperately below par performance of his side. In normal circumstances I suppose a point at the Stadium […]

Karl Henry did Wolves and Mick McCarthy no favors on Saturday when his late tackle on Jordi Gomez resulted in a straight red card and left Wolverhampton Wanderers with ten men. In the video of the tackle (see above), you can see how Henry's hit sent the Spaniard flying into the air. Luckily Gomez was […]

A Saturday goal-fest in the Bundesliga made for some very interesting results. Table-topping Mainz hosted Hoffenheim; Borussia Monchengladbach hosted VfL Wolfsburg; HSV hosted promoted side Kaiserslautern; Schalke travelled to Nurnberg; and Freiburg hosted Koln. Mainz 4 – 2 TSG Hoffenheim Mainz's incredible form continues with their seventh straight win of the season, which equals the […]

There are plenty of classic traditional matches today in the Premier League. Aston Villa versus Tottenham, West Brom against Bolton, West Ham v Fulham, Stoke against Blackburn, Man United versus Sunderland and others. And I expect many of them to be very entertaining. As the action unfolds today, feel free to post your questions, observations […]

If you run across any sports fans who call soccer a sissy sport, have them take a look at the above video which features 33 different soccer punch ups. Some of them will make you wince. But all of them show that the sport is not as amicable as some may think. The above video, […]

Friday's Bundesliga match featured high-flying Hannover 96 against St. Pauli at the AWD-Arena. Hannover's recent form has catipulted them to 3rd place in the Bundesliga table, and they would have been looking to continue their hot form with a comfortable win in front of their home support against St. Pauli. Unfortunately, the hosts were left […]

Last weekend's Premier League match between Manchester City and Chelsea, which was aired live on ESPN2 in the United States on Saturday, September 25 at 4:30am PT/7:30am ET, garnered a 0.3 rating and was viewed by a TV audience of 428,000. The game featured the debut of host Rebecca Lowe alongside pundit Steve McManaman as […]

Joachim Loew announced his squad today for the upcoming Euro 2012 qualifying matches against Turkey and Kazakhstan. A call-up for in-form Borussia Dortmund winger Kevin Grosskreutz will please Bundesliga fans who have been watching the young star of late, but omissions include Mats Hummels, Andre Scheurrle and Lewis Holtby, who have all been in top […]

The decision made by Sir Alex Ferguson to bring the previously unknown Tiago Manuel Dias Correia, commonly known by his nickname Bebé, to Manchester United has come under a lot of scrutiny by the press, but has Fergie unearthed another gem? The Bebé transfer was an interesting and peculiar one right from the start. He began his […]