Editorials

New Manchester City striker Robinho will strike fear into the rest of the Premier League, according to manager Mark Hughes. The Brazil forward signed from Real Madrid for a British record transfer fee of £32.4million on Monday night and City’s Premier League title odds were immediately shortened into 50.0 from triple figure odds.Chelsea were desperate […]

It was a breathless transfer deadline day. There is no doubt that the biggest transfer and the biggest news was that Berbatov went to United not City or Real Madrid or anyone else. No it wasn’t, the biggest news was the remarkable happenings down the road at City as they made a bid for everyone […]

Before this season started I made a few predictions. Amongst those predictions I said that players would continue to commit bad fouls despite the problems and injuries last season and that managers would continue to either deny that they saw the incident or try to defend the indefensible, as certain managers have done time and […]

Hot teamA few contenders for this award this week with Portsmouth getting their season off the ground with an excellent 3-0 win at Everton, Wigan spanking the new boys of Hull City 5-0 to give them a reality check and Manchester City, about whom we are going to hear a good deal more over the […]

Fabio Capello has named his England squad for the two World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Croatia. With Steve Gerrard, Owen Hargreaves and Michael Carrick all injured it was interesting to see who would get the midfield call up.The answer was Fulham’s Jimmy Bullard and I was absolutely thrilled. Bullard is twenty-nine and he certainly […]

OK Arsenal fans, you win. I was given a torrid time by you all yesterday when I said that there were tough times ahead for your club. I pointed out that the last thing Arsene Wenger needed right now was a game against a resurgent Newcastle side.With my immensely knowledgeable prediction of pending doom and […]

Serie A Predictions1) Inter MilanLast season’s Serie A champions are strong favourites to secure another title this campaign and it’s not hard to see why.Jose Mourinho’s arrival has galvanised a squad of players brimming with quality and optimism. While transfer targets such as Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Ricardo Carvalho and Ricardo Quaresma haven’t arrived at […]

An article yesterday caught my eye and made me take notice. It was quite remarkable in many ways. It was about comments made by Arsenal Director Danny Fizsman. I’ll let you read what he said. “If he (Wenger) said ‘I want this guy and he’s £30 million, can I buy him?’, the answer is yes. […]

1) BarcelonaPep Guardiola, one of the Nou Camp’s favourite sons, returned to the club over the summer to take the Barcelona hot set. That despite his lack of managerial experience.Having endured the humiliation of finishing a massive 18 points behind old rivals Real Madrid last season, Barca will be looking to bounce back by capturing […]

Sunderland’s 2-1 win at Tottenham may have surprised many in the game and was certainly an unwelcome surprise for Juande Ramos, but it most definitely won’t have shocked their manager Roy Keane.The man who was an aggressive, petulant, moody, brilliant and occasionally downright nasty player has turned into a well behaved, well mannered, considered and […]