Jose Mourinho is the master of the blame game. After three defeats on the trot for Chelsea, and the worst start to a Premier League campaign in ten years, Mourinho is blaming everything from the playing style and lack of maturity in his squad rather than taking the blame for his poor starting lineup selections […]

Here's the list of commentators who will be calling the Premier League matches this weekend on NBC: Saturday, September 21: Norwich vs Aston Villa, 7:45am, NBC Sports Network; Peter Drury & Efan Ekoku Liverpool vs Southampton, 10am, NBC Sports Network; Joe Speight & Trevor Francis Newcastle vs Hull, 10am, Premier League Extra Time; Ian Crocker & Barry […]

A UK sports retailer recently reported that the Arsenal shirts with Mesut Ozil's name on the back are outselling Gareth Bale Real Madrid shirts by five to one. A representative from the UK sports retailer said: "While it would be untrue to say there is not an interest in Bale shirts, our sales data shows […]

For a walk down memory lane, watch this intro to the EA Sports game FIFA 06, which features several world-class stars as well as the poster boys of FIFA 06 — Wayne Rooney and Ronaldinho. The intro, which includes a voiceover by a Scottish bloke trying to sound like Sir Alex Ferguson, showcases an excellent video […]

At times, this week's Champions League encounter between Manchester United and Bayer Leverkusen was a closely fought contest. But the difference in world class quality ultimately made the contest a convincing win for David Moyes’ men in the end. And no one was more instrumental than the rejuvenated Wayne Rooney. The player, subject of such […]

There’s no getting around Chelsea’s slow start the season, both in the Premier League and the Champions League. Mourinho has experimented with different lineups and, as we saw Wednesday versus Basel, formations. Mind you, the squad isn’t unfamiliar with this kind of rotation. Benitez had Chelsea in a constant state of fluctuation last year that […]

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) […]