The Guardian's Barney Ronay has penned a piece tonight about how Michu looks like the striker Fernando Torres might have become. The way the Swansea striker clinically finished his chance on Wednesday night is reminiscent of a Torres in his prime, but to be fair to Torres, the former Liverpool striker is not the same […]

Without Robin van Persie, Manchester United would be 16th in the table, right? The flaws in the ‘One Man Team’ argument are numerous, but the biggest of these flaws is that when arguing United would be a lesser team without van Persie, you assume every other team retains their own leading scorers. If you really want […]

A photo of Celtic's new home shirt for the 2013-14 season has been leaked on the Internet. Celtic's new jersey from Nike will feature the famous green and white hoops, albeit looking more modern than traditional. What's your opinion about Celtic's new shirt for next season? Let us know in the comments section below.

After yesterday's spectacularly entertaining match between Bradford City and Aston Villa where the Bantams won the first leg 3-1, today's attention turns to Stamford Bridge where Chelsea plays Swansea City in the other semi-final first leg. In injury news, both John Terry and Petr Cech won't be playing for Chelsea today. Demba Ba is eligible […]

Congratulations to Lionel Messi for winning the Ballon d'Or for the fourth consecutive year. Here's a video to celebrate his achievement courtesy of adidas and Richard Swarbrick.

Chelsea plays at home against Swansea City today in the first leg of their League Cup game. For the Blues, it represents their first opportunity to move a giant step closer to winning their first piece of silverware this season. The match will give us another opportunity to see how Rafael Benitez will set up […]

Arsenal is facing a lot of criticism and scorn today regarding their prices for this weekend's match against Manchester City with some home tickets priced up to £126. A third of away tickets available to Manchester City (priced at £62) have been sent back in a message of protest from City supporters. It's no wonder […]

Good news for Arsenal fans tonight as a deal to sign Theo Walcott to a new contract appears to be imminent, perhaps as early as next week. Here are tonight's Premier League news headlines: Theo Walcott edging towards new £25m deal with Arsenal — The Guardian Manchester City send almost third of ticket allocation back […]

The direction that the Chelsea hierarchy are looking to steer the club in is very clear. The world's best young players are very much the agenda in the transfer market whilst the ‘old guard’ look as though they will be allowed to see out their contracts and walk away. Its all about the future. This […]

Despite Aston Villa's disappointing Premier League season thus far, the club is just two games away from being in a Wembley final against the winner of Chelsea-Swansea. But first, Villa has to travel to Valley Parade where they play today in the first leg of the League Cup at 2:45pm ET (live on beIN SPORT). […]

Be sure to enter your predictions for Beat The Manager, gameweek 22. The deadline to get them in is this Saturday at 6:30am ET. We’re giving one away after the end of gameweek 25 — and with all of the gameweeks happening thick and fast because of the mid-week matches, gameweek 25 is just around the […]

A leaked photo of Manchester City's new home shirt for the 2013-14 season has been leaked on the Internet. The photo (pictured above) shows the brand-new Nike design. It's the first from Nike, who are taking over from Umbro at the end of this season. The sky blue shirt features a white rounded collar with […]

You've got to love Stoke City football club. Eighteen of their players are playing Fantasy Premier League in their own private league. Each of the teams reveal some interesting insights into each player. Peter Crouch has Begovic and Shawcross in the back with Robin van Persie up top. Crouchie scored a whopping 73 points last […]

The referee for Sunday's Premier League clash between Manchester United and Liverpool will be one Howard Webb, one of the better referees in the division. In such a high profile match, the referee is bound to come under some immense pressure. Hopefully Webb will be able to have one of his games where the focus […]

Outside of goals, near misses or wonderful saves, if I had to identify one aspect of soccer that I absolutely love it would be this: That moment in a game when a team gains a sudden sense of urgency and confidence after a key moment happens in a match. Those moments don't happen in every […]