Manchester City 3 (Jovetic x2, Aguero) Liverpool 1 (Zabaleta O.G.) Venue: Etihad Stadium Referee: Michael Oliver Recent history has seen some truly entertaining clashes between these two attacking-minded sides with this clash in Manchester proving to be no different. The past five league games between last year's first and second placed teams had produced three […]

This will not be a popular opinion, but the Glazers and Ed Woodward are not to blame for the lack of squad quality at Manchester United. The facts show that the Glazers have loosened the purse strings whenever they have been asked to. Here is a comparison that will further elucidate this point. Between 1998 […]

After just over one week of the 2014/15 Premier League season, today marks the first biggest match of the season with the Premier League champions against last season's runner-up. With the excitement of the Mario Balotelli signing sure to be one of the main talking points of the game, even though he's not available to […]

Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone has been handed an eight-match by the Spanish Football Association. The Argentinian boss was facing three separate charges and had been anticipating a lengthy spell away from the touchline. He was already banned from the touchline for today's La Liga opener against Rayo Vallecano and admitted during his pre-match press […]

Despite claiming on August 3rd that Liverpool would not be signing Mario Balotelli, Brendan Rodgers has signed the mercurial Italian to his forward line, in a major signing for the Liverpool club. There had been worries about Liverpool's transfer business this summer with the club having failed to suitably replace Luis Suarez with a renowned […]

Mario Balotelli possesses so much talent, but the detriments he can bring on and off the pitch bring about an aura of fear. So how does Brendan Rodgers fit the bad boy who says he wants to become even badder, into a club that was supposedly worried about image problems just a few months ago? […]

When Daniel Sturridge left Manchester City for Chelsea back in 2009, the overwhelming consensus was that he would go on to become a wonderful center forward. After all, here was a young man who had it all: pace, power, technical ability and a calm head in front of goal. Admittedly somewhere between his switch from […]

Having been the dominant force in both of their opening Premier League games, Everton should have six points from six at this early stage of the season. For overwhelming periods of their matches against Leicester City and Arsenal, Roberto Martinez’s side have resembled a vibrant, enterprising outfit. But for small yet catastrophically costly spells—especially late […]

Liverpool and Manchester City go again in Premier League play on Monday when the Reds travel to the Etihad to battle the Sky Blues. The two outfits played to a 2-2 draw at Yankee Stadium over the summer with the Reds winning on penalty kicks, but now spectators will see the two sides take each […]

D.C United fired themselves to top sot in the Eastern Conference, following a rampant first-half that saw them claim a routine 3-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City. Goals from Fabian Espindola, Chris Rolfe and Perry Kitchen came in an eight-minute burst, meaning that the game was all but over just after 30 minutes had been […]

Lee Dixon was paired with Arlo White on NBC’s coverage of Everton versus Arsenal on Saturday. So far, in their first year and two weeks of Premier League coverage, all of the commentators have done well. But on Saturday, Dixon was a disgrace. It has long been a favorite tactic of managers to blame the […]

According to Sky Sports Spanish football expert Guillem Balague, Manchester United have agreed to pay Real Madrid a British transfer record fee of £63.9million for Angel Di Maria. Balague broke news of United's impending move for the Argentina international late yesterday and is now reporting that the 26-year-old winger will fly into Manchester tomorrow in order to hold […]

Today's Sunderland-Manchester United match gives United manager Louis Van Gaal an opportunity to get United off to a better start than the 2-1 loss to Swansea last week. For viewers in the United States, the game will be shown on: Sunderland vs Manchester United, 11am, NBCSN and Telemundo and NBC Sports Live Extra Starting lineups: Sunderland: Mannone, Vergini, v Aanholt, […]

Sunderland entertain Manchester United on Sunday afternoon in what will be the latest indicator to Louis Van Gaal as to how much work still needs to be done to this broken United squad. Sunderland go into the game as the form side out of the two clubs, and there is a real feel that they […]

The two Premier League teams that were involved in the Europa League on Thursday (Tottenham and Hull City) play this morning. For viewers in the United States (and around the world), the match between Spurs and QPR will be commentated by Ian Darke, which will be a nice bonus for an early match. For viewers in the United […]