Attendance figures at the new all singing, all dancing professional ISL are still little more than conjecture. Witness yesterday's packed Jakabarang Stadium in Palembang for the Sriwijaya match with Persija. One paper says 20,000, another says 40,000. Pick a number lah.

Persitara had an impressive 486 fans witness their late show against Persik Kediri in Solo while Persebaya had an accurate sounding 5,235 for their local derby with Gresik United in the Premier League. Click to continue reading...

There are very few more obvious statements you can make about football these days than ‘the players get paid too much.' When painfully average Championship level bench-warmers get paid more in a month than 90% of the population earn in a year, you know something is wrong with the country. Anyway, soap-boxing aside, according to The Observer we are on the brink of passing yet another wage mile-stone, with reports leaking out of West London that Chelsea are prepared to offer Brazilian divinity Kaka' the princely sum of £1million-a-month to join them from AC Milan. Click to continue reading...

Following Wenger's comments that he will intends to sign one more central midfielder this summer, there has been considerable conjecture that the man in question is none other than Gareth Barry, chased by Liverpool for the past few months. To be honest, I don't see the logic in that conclusion at all. Click to continue reading...

A week ago in the UNSC, South Africa voted against sanctions for Zimbabwe's leaders. The resolution was defeated with the help of China and Russia. The BBC described SA as a Zimbabwe ally pleased with the outcome. The result angered the US and England, the prime movers behind the resolution.

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You'd think after a fairly serious piece of ankle surgery, you'd just be tucked up in bed watching movies and enjoying the odd day-long session of Grand Theft Auto IV guilt free. Not Cristiano Ronaldo though, he doesn't know the meaning of the word ‘relax,' and just days after going under the knife in freaky-deaky Amsterdam has managed to find himself across the pond in Hollywood, partying with the likes of professional cum-dumpster Paris Hilton. Click to continue reading...

Earlier in the season you might remember us voicing some conjecture that a group of affluent Chelsea fans were planning to hire a cruise ship off the Russian coast to accommodate the hundreds of Blues fans traveling to Moscow for the Champions League final without anywhere to stay after the match.

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We start today with news that David Villa is leaving Valencia to join Newcastle United in a £14.5 million deal.

Actually he's not really. That was just a lie, but it's exactly the sort of thing that makes up so many of the transfer rumour and gossip columns seen these days on the web and in your daily newspapers. Click to continue reading...

So everyone knows footballers are monumentally stupid, it's pretty much a given. It isn't like you have to be a moron to want to play football, far from it, but the point is that to make it at the very top level you have to do it often to the detriment of your studies. If you're good enough, you're old enough, and these days that normally means being selected by a top club before reaching the teenage abyss.

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There's precious little to talk about today - most of it hyperbole and conjecture, with the usual scramble across Europe for strikers and desperate pimping of stars no one wants to buy. Andrei Arshavin has his 15 minutes of fame - the Russian was reported by BBC Radio Live yesterday to have agreed to join [. Click to continue reading...

It's only taken one game, of course the UEFA Cup didn't hurt, and Andrei Arshavin's stock is shooting through the roof. Previously clubs like Newcastle, Arsenal and Everton were in the hunt, now it's the big spending likes of Milan and Liverpool in for the Russian catalyst. Could it be bad news for the Dutch?

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It's pretty irritating when virtually all the best games on paper take place at 5 p.m., when everyone but alcoholics, criminals and students are chained to a desk. As such, we at STT have struggled, like I'm sure most of you have as well, to catch more than about half of the full games in the tournament to date. Click to continue reading...

So finally it looks as if Gareth Barry or Garry Barry as my mates like to call him will, after all the conjecture of the last few weeks, be making the move to Anfield this summer. Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez... Click to continue reading...

In light of Hull City's recent signing sensation, we at STT have decided to look back and remember some of those unbelievable transfers of yester-year that make football so interesting. As an added bonus, we've also covered a couple of even more sensational near-signings that could have changed the course of footballing history as we know it.. Click to continue reading...