The Joe Kinnear Show / Arsenal To Land Higuain

Good morning. Joe Kinnear was a theatrical, comedic goldmine yesterday on Talksport, saying that he's "more intelligent" than Newcastle United supporters and showing a crushing inability to pronounce the names of Newcastle's top players. Kinnear called Yohan Cabaye, "Yohan Kebab" and have you ever heard of Hatem Ben Affri? Kinnear Read more

Joe Kinnear Back at Newcastle / Confederations Cup

Good morning. Joe Kinnear has re-joined Newcastle United under the guise of "Director of Football." Due to the absurdity of the appointment, I could finish the blog here and leave you to chew on that information for the entirety of your Monday. It is a very bizarre development at Newcastle, as Read more

Betting tips for the Premier League: who will be favourites next season to win?

The new Premier League season is set to be an exciting one, thanks to a raft of changes that have occurred at the top clubs since the end of the last one, which leave things feeling less predictable than they have for a while. The fact that Chelsea have Read more

Chelsea Agree Schuerrle Deal / Ronaldo Doesn't Sign A New Contract.

Good morning. As I trawled through the various football websites this morning, all I saw was this... Tumbleweed. Lots and lots of tumbleweed. The transfer window hasn't opened and won't do so until the July 1st, so we should all calm down in that regard. At the moment it feels as Read more

Review of the 2012/13 Season - Leicester City

The football season is over, players have gone on holiday and the tedium of transfer rumours have officially started, if not prematurely, with the transfer window not actually until July 1st. So, what to do until August when it all kicks off again? Spend time with loved ones? Take Read more
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Ladies Football

Moldova 0-5 England / Arsenal Ladies Maintain Lead

Morning.

Later to the show than other blogs, I’m finally here with my thoughts on the England World Cup qualifying match. We blog five days a week excluding weekends, though I expect that will change back to blogging every day soon enough.

Anyway, moving on, I think we can be encouraged from what we’ve seen of Roy Hodgson’s ‘new England’ from the post-Euro 2012 era. Can you really place a measure on one friendly match against Italy and what could optimistically by called a ‘World Cup qualifier’ against Moldova? No, not any realistic measures anyway. The early signs though, as I said, are encouraging. Rather than the 4-4-2 formation we persisted with at Euro 2012, Hodgson opted for 4-2-3-1, using Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard as the anchors, leaving Tom Cleverley, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and James Milner as the attacking trio to supplement Jermaine Defoe playing as a lone striker. Read more

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Craig in Ladies Football, Women's Super League, World Cup 2014 Leave a comment

Arsenal In For M’Vila & Sahin? / Everton Capture Mirallas / Everton Ladies Stifle Arsenal

Is Yann the man for Arsenal? Oh what a cheesy caption that is…

Good morning!

Officially, we have started the season again, and by God don’t I love it. Rather than just the one article, we have three, which hasn’t been done for a while. I guess that’s what football does to you, I guess, you find time where there previously wasn’t any to script an unprecedented amount of articles.

Consequently, I shan’t beat about the bush, as I’m trying to find time that didn’t previously exist, so here we go with the transfer news and the ladies football…

Arsenal to sign Yann M’Vila and Nuri Sahin?

Like me finding time to get three articles live, (one is by Rob, admittedly) Arsenal signing five players in one transfer window is unprecedented territory. Yes, yes, I know, there were lots of players signed last summer, but can you honestly say that was scripted? I can;t imagine for a second that Arsene Wenger envisioned signing Mikel Arteta, Per Mertesacker and André Santos late on in the transfer window. No, necessity forced those moves, but these transfer deals have been strategic, as if they’ve been planned out for nearly a year.

For example, Santi Cazorla was initially targeted as the replacement for Cesc Fabregas, as was Juan Mata. A year on, owing to Malaga’s financial troubles, Cazorla is an Arsenal player, Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud have been signed to replace outgoing players and now, it would seem, Yann M’Vila is coming in to replace Barcelona-bound Alex Song and Nuri Sahin is joining the Gunners on a year loan to help aide the return of Jack Wilshere. Read more

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Craig in England, Europe, France, Ladies Football, Ligue 1, Premiership, Women's Super League Leave a comment

Alex Song To Leave Arsenal? / Newcastle Sign Vurnon Anita / Women’s Football On FIFA Games

With hair as ridiculous as this, it’s time Arsenal let Alex Song leave, and sharpish.

Good morning to you!

Can you remember what I said just yesterday about the weather in England being unpredictable, how it was sunny, and the day before that it was rainy? Well, today in the ‘shire, it’s a little grey to say the least. Really, I do love the unpredictability of the English weather. Of course, this is actually a moan, but then I wouldn’t be English if I didn’t moan to the extreme about weather conditions.

Right, enough rambling about the weather, let’s get to the news…

Alex Song to leave Arsenal?

Reports in the newspapers, football blogs and on Twitter, say that Alex Song has agreed personal terms with Barcelona, as has a fee, it’s just minor little things such as paperwork which is holding up the deal. Even Arseblog, rarely one to get involved in paper talk has commented on it, saying that from everything they’ve heard, it’s just the ‘details’ that are to be sorted. Depending on what source you read, Song is leaving Arsenal for Barcelona to the tune of a £15 million transfer fee. Read more

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Craig in England, Europe, La Liga, Ladies Football, Premiership, Spain, Women's Champions League, Women's Premier League, Women's Super League Leave a comment