It was only a little more than a month ago that England returned home from the World Cup, tail between the legs. They had scored two goals and earned one point. They had been eliminated before they had even played all their group games. It was the worst performance in a World Cup in the nation's his...
It is already a summer of sweeping change at the Estadio do Dragao, and it really needed to be. There is always a period of self-examination for Porto when they are beaten for the Liga title, especially when by their archrivals from Benfica. As the Eagles triumphed for the first time in four year...
When it eventually happened in May, the coupling of Tottenham Hotspur and Mauricio Pochettino came as little surprise.
In the final throes of Andre Villas-Boas' regime, Southampton's then-manager led the replacement list among informed sources. Once chairman Nicola Cortese took leave of St Mary's, P...
By anybody's standards, it's an impressive piece of business. Three years ago, Chelsea signed Romelu Lukaku from Anderlecht for 11 million pounds, with a further 7 million payable depending on whether the young forward met a variety of performance and achievement targets. Given that he made only 10 ...
Posted by Nick Ames
Something is happening. It is becoming easier to cement a place in the Premier League's mid-table -- the rank between the European contenders and those engaged in miserable battles against relegation. Parachute payments cannot, for all their fundamental, anti-competitive absurdness, be the very fir...
One of Argentine football's oldest jokes is two games away from losing validity.
All of the Buenos Aires big five have won the Copa Libertadores, South America's equivalent of the Champions League -- or rather, all of them with the exception of San Lorenzo.
This has allowed rival fans enormous fun ...
