Liverpool have won the rights to Joe Cole on a free transfer after the English midfielder parted ways with Chelsea this spring. Cole, 28, has agreed to a £90,000 a week contract with Anfield pending the passing of a physical, according to ESPN Soccernet. Arsenal and Tottenham were also interested in the services of Cole, […]

Bayern Munich's head coach Louis Van Gaal has spoke to Kicker magazine in Germany about Germany's World Cup exit, and his ambitions after Bayern Munich. Van Gaal spoke to the fact that Germany decided to sit back against Spain, a team that if attacked, he believes, would have been beatable. "That was the only game […]

World Cup 2010 South Africa has now been and gone, a feast of football for a month in the rainbow nation. Here are a few memories of the good and bad for the first World Cup of the decade. The Good Paul the Octopus – the world stood still in amazement and in humour, (in […]

Former Tottenham manager Martin Jol is preparing to return to the Premier League in order to fill the managerial post at Fulham left by Roy Hodgson. The Dutch manager, who won a Dutch Cup with Ajax in his only season with the club, was fired as manager of Tottenham in 2007 despite nearly leading the […]

In a quite odd turn of events, former Italy captain and World Cup 2006 winner Fabio Cannavaro believes John Terry is soon likely to face the ax when next Fabio Capello calls upon players for Euro 2012 qualifiers. In a recent interview with the Daily Star Sunday, Cannavaro spoke openly about John Terry and how […]

Saturday July 17, 2010 will not be remembered by Fire fans as the day the Fire lost to the New England Revolution 1-0 at home in a Group B SuperLiga match-up but as the day help arrived to possibly save the 2010 Fire season. With the team clearly in a tailspin the Fire front office, […]

My first professional game I ever attended was a mid-week night game on a cold night in Wales. The floodlights could be seen from miles away and they seemed to light up the pitch and turn the color of the grass into a different shade of green. Throughout the years, I've seen plenty of professional […]

The Week 16 numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Week 16 124 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 13,158 6 15,716 14,632 106 2007 12,473 -5.21% 4 15,377 -2.15% 15,043 2.81% 107 2008 14,475 16.05% 5 16,518 7.42% 17,245 14.63% 111 2009 16,142 […]

Hamburg battled out a 0-0 draw with Italian giants Juventus today in a pre-season match between the two sides. Whilst Hamburg did have quite a few chances to take the lead, strong goalkeeping and a bit of pre-season rust kept it all square. Hamburg lined up quite strongly, with only few players coming from the […]

Two days ago it was the pomp and circumstance for the New York Red Bulls bringing over one of the greatest strikers in the world. Even though Thierry Henry wasn't going to be in the lineup, he did travel to Columbus and experience the pre-match festivities. But unfortunately for the Red Bulls they forgot that they […]

Sami Khedira's already impressive career just seems to keep on getting better. From winning the Bundesliga title with Stuttgart at only 19 years old, to captaining the German U-21 side to European glory in 2009, to reaching the World Cup semi-final with the German national team in 2010, to now being considered a transfer target […]

Hamburg's Marcus Berg has agreed a one-year loan deal with PSV, after falling down the pecking order at his club after failing to impress in his first season. Having played 30 games for HSV and only scoring 4 goals, Hamburg have decided that the young Swedish star is in need of a year out on […]

There's a lot to love about Blackpool Football Club. The team that very few people thought would get promoted to the Premier League overcame all odds thanks to the management of Ian Holloway. And they got promoted by playing a good brand of football. They were one of the few teams in the Championship to […]

It's a bizarre story. First, in May, before the World Cup kicked off, Fabio Capello along with a man named Chicco Merighi launched the Capello Index, an objective system that measures and evaluates the performances of players. But after the news broke of the ratings system, many people thought it would be in poor taste […]

After a return to the summit of the Premier League and retaining their FA cup, Chelsea enjoyed a successful season. The bitter sting of being Mourinho’d out of the Champions league was quelled as Chelsea put that set-back behind and pressed their advantage home for the Premier League trophy. All of this made me select […]