FA Cup generates 650m for English football

January 27, 2012

Deloitte report assessing the financial impact of The FA Cup reveals: £650m earned by clubs in the past 10 years Crawley Town receive £1m pay day from single FA Cup tie  As excitement builds ahead of The FA Cup with Budweiser Fourth Round Proper, the financial impact of the competition has been revealed in a new report [...]

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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain for England?

January 25, 2012

With both Euro 2012 and the Olympics getting underway this summer, it is perhaps no surprise that speculation has been rife over who will make it into Fabio Capello’s final squad for Poland and Ukraine, and who is in line for a call up for Stuart Pearce’s Olympic Team GB squad – and the Euro [...]

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Fans to become Wembley legends and star alongside Vinnie Jones

January 25, 2012

25 January 2012: FA Cup winner and Hollywood hardman Vinnie Jones has returned to Wembley for the first time in nearly 25 years, to star in an interactive film in which he presents fans with their personalised Wembley Way stone. In the film, Vinnie plays tribute to the national stadium and the position that Wembley [...]

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Wenger’s Sanity in doubt.

January 24, 2012

Benjamin Franklin once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. With this definition in mind events at the Emirates stadium on Sunday could lead some Arsenal supporters to question the mental health of their manager. Sunday 28th August 2011 will be a date forever [...]

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Norwich bring in Howson from Leeds

January 24, 2012

Norwich City have completed the signing of Jonny Howson from Leeds United. A fee was agreed last week, but the Canaries have now confirmed the transfer after the midfielder completed his medical at Carrow Road. Those who assess in play betting strategy note how the signing is one of many Norwich have made from outside [...]

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Harry Redknapp – football’s biggest hypocrite?

January 23, 2012

Harry Redknapp, who spent most of last week aiming poisonous verbal darts in the direction of Manchester City manager, Roberto Mancini, last night went on live television to try to get the FA to take retrospective action against Mario Balotelli for an alleged stamp on Scott Parker during City’s dramatic win against Spurs. Funny, I [...]

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The Football League: Predicting the Unpredictable

January 22, 2012

Every week, my brother places an accumulator on various Football League results, only a few quid, but enough to make it fairly interesting. To this date, he has never won. What looks a cast-iron home win for a promotion chaser against a team middling along in mid-table obscurity may turn out to be a 1-4 [...]

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Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur Preview

January 21, 2012

Many are labelling this weekend’s game  as a grudge match with Spurs seeking revenge for the beating they received at White Hart Lane earlier in the season. According to a recent poll by Sky Sports, Spurs are also the favourites to win the league, no doubt partly due to the new-found hatred that City has acquired.   [...]

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Un-ravelling the Morrison mystery

January 20, 2012

As Tony Fernandes appears the only Premier League chairman willing to put the golden nib of his fountain pen to his cheque book, newspapers and sports channels alike struggle to satisfy the footballing publics insatiable appetite for transfer talk. This has resulted in the arrival of silly season appearing to be unavoidably upon us with [...]

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Arsenal made a big mistake in not sacking Arsene Wenger

January 17, 2012

Carlo Ancelotti joined PSG in December after being sacked by Chelsea. The Italian won the double in his first season but failed to inspire The Blues as they finished without a trophy the following season. The 52-year-old admitted he was hoping to replace Arsene Wenger in north London. The Gunners are struggling with many Arsenal [...]

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Manchester City 1 – 0 Wigan Match Report

January 17, 2012

Manchester city headed 3 points clear as they recorded a win over Wigan although the match certainly won’t go down as one of the greatest City performances of all time. I got a rather uneasy feeling just before kick-off and it proved to be quite a nervy game all round as, I think it’s fair [...]

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Cahill’s move a good move.

January 16, 2012

Gary Cahill’s transfer has finally been announced as official. From where I’m standing at £7m Chelsea have just bought themselves an absolute bargain! I’m sure Owen Coyle will be less than impressed at how long the deal took to eventually go through. Although, saying that, Cahill did help win another couple of points for Bolton [...]

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