Most people believe that Jose Mourinho will move on to Spain or become the manager of Portugal following his spell at Inter. Now Mourinho has told Sky Sports that he actually wants to come back to the Premier League. The former Chelsea coach has only been at Inter since the Summer and the club have made a pretty decent start. Click to continue reading...

After the great decision with ridiculous timing to ban Atletico Madrid from playing home games at their stadium, Uefa has temporarily overturned the ban for the Champions League match against Liverpool on 22nd October. European football's governing body had ordered Atletico to play their next two matches away from the Vicente Calderon Stadium after crowd trouble. Click to continue reading...

The Football Association has warned Newcastle boss Joe Kinnear he could face disciplinary action if he repeats the type of outburst he made at a press conference earlier in the month. During the now infamous five minute meeting with the press, Kinnear swore fifty-two times.

An FA statement said: "Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear has been reminded of his responsibilities by The FA. Click to continue reading...

England under 21s scraped through to the European Championship finals with a battling and spirited, if largely unimpressive, aggregate win over Wales. A 2-2 draw at Aston Villa following on from the 3-2 win in Cardiff was enough to see Stuart Pearce's young men looking forward to spending next Summer in Sweden. Click to continue reading...

A blow for Enland today as it is announced that they will be without captain John Terry and booed left back Ashley Cole for Wednesday's World Cup qualifying game in Belarus. Skipper Terry missed the 5-1 win over Kazakhstan at Wembley on Saturday with a back injury, and will not recover in time to take his place on Wednesday. Click to continue reading...

At an Under-19 tournament in Slovenia at the moment, Uefa are running the first of three trials where two extra assistants help the referee. They stand behind each goalline and give the referee four assistants rather than two.

"The goal is to have one referee with more eyes," Uefa president Michel Platini told the Uefa website. Click to continue reading...

The expected transfer of Xabi Alonso from Liverpool to Juventus in the Summer, as we all know, didn't take place. It was thought that the failure of the move to go through was as a result of the Gareth Barry transfer from Aston Villa not materialising. Now, Juventus coach Claudio Ranieri has revealed that he turned down the chance to sign him because he was "too slow". Click to continue reading...

The turmoil at Newcastle took another twist today when they announced that Tony Jimenez has left the club. The vice-president (player recruitment) was appointed by Mike Ashley back in January and was part of the set-up including Dennis Wise, that so upset Kevin Keegan and most of the Newcastle fans. Click to continue reading...

Striker Peter Crouch has put the credit for his return to the England squad down to his manager at Portsmouth, Harry Redknapp. Crouch was not named in Fabio Capello's last two squads but regular football and two goals in his last two games have earned him a recall for the World Cup qualifiers over the coming week. Click to continue reading...

As England prepare for their two World Cup qualifiers over the next few days the rumours suggest that we will be in for the treat of seeing Steve Gerrard and Frank Lampard paired with each other in midfield again. It is believed that as Joe Cole is out with a foot injury, Capello will ditch the plan of having a holding midfield and instead go for the tried and sadly untrusted pairing of Gerrard and Lampard in central midfield. Click to continue reading...

Frank Lampard is one of the most talked about players of his generation. He has been runner-up in the world footballer of the year award and has long been regarded as one of the world's finest midfield players. His wonderful goal scoring and medal winning record with Chelsea, together with his sixty-four England caps prove just what a great player he is. Click to continue reading...

Everton are a fine side with a great manager. Why is it then that everything seems to be going wrong? They were dumped out of the Uefa Cup tonight as they lost 4-3 on aggregate to Standard Liege. It has been a really tough few days for David Moyes and his team, losing 2-0 to local rivals Liverpool at the weekend and being dumped out of the Carling Cup by Blackburn last week, before this sudden end to their European adventure. Click to continue reading...

It is reported that Police are going to investigate racial and homophobic abuse directed at Portsmouth and former England defender Sol Campbell at Fratton Park during the side's 2-0 win over his former club Tottenham on Sunday. The thirty-four year old Portsmouth captain has been hugely unpopular with Spurs fans since 2001 when he left the club and moved to their bitter north London rivals Arsenal. Click to continue reading...

According to the Sun newspaper, Tottenham boss Juande Ramos has got just four games to save his job. That means he would have to get results at Wisla Krakow, at home to Hull and Bolton and away at Stoke. To be fair, if Tottenham don't win at least three of those games, then I don't think Ramos could complain about being shown the door. Click to continue reading...

Arsene Wenger is faced with an interesting problem. Last week he watched his youngsters and reserves destroy a decent Championship outfit in Sheffield United, 6-0 in the Carling Cup. On Saturday, he watched his much lauded first team go down 2-1 at home to newly promoted Hull. The question is, how much better than the reserves are the first team? Click to continue reading...