In case you don't have Fox and wondering what the heck I'm going on about in AFL/NRL Grand Final week(s), here's the video of the Adelaide goal.

And who would have thought that five years ago Adelaide newspapers and media would be front and back page football in Grand Final week. Click to continue reading...

Neither newspapers nor pundits missed the opportunity to comment on a recent incident from the Manchester City/Chelsea game in the Premiership, when John Terry, the England captain, was sent off by Mark Halsey for serious foul play in the 66th... Click to continue reading...

Personally, I am not convinced that West Ham will be handing over money to Sheffield United this side of 2020 with all the expected appeals, but this morning's newspapers are full of stories that the Hammers will be forced to sell their star players in January. Here is a rundown of the potential movers and [. Click to continue reading...

Wednesday night watch Adelaide United take on Japanese Champions Kashima Antlers for their historic place in the Asian Champions League Semi-Finals. First leg was 1-1.

And interestingly they've been getting front and back page coverage in the Adelaide newspapers. Even in AFL finals time.

It won't be easy but The Reds certainly are in with a great chance after last weeks, if not Satuday's, performance. Click to continue reading...

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Back on the pitch, it's Norwich tonigh...Although would be nice if other clubs and newspapers stopped referring to QPR's great wealth - because it's certainly not apparent how the money of QPR's wealthy owners makes QPR rich.


Norwich Official Site ROEDER READY FOR RANGERS
AS the Canaries prepare to play QPR at Carrow Road tonight (7. Click to continue reading...

The transfer window may have shut as far as players are concerned, yet this doesn't apply with managers, so the newspapers content themselves with speculation surrounding the vacant posts at West Ham and Newcastle. I suppose it's inevitable that the clubs will go for similar sort of candidates, although the . Click to continue reading...

Saturday August 30, 2008
Bolton Wanderers 0 West Bromwich Albion 0: BBC, Soccernet, Sun, Times, Daily Mail, Guardian, Independent, Sky Sports, Telegraph.
Everton 0 Portsmouth 3: BBC, Soccernet, Sun, Times, Daily Mail, Guardian, Independent, Sky Sports, Telegraph.
Hull City 0 Wigan Athletic 5: BBC, Soccernet, Sun, Times, Daily Mail, Guardian, Independent, Sky Sports, Telegraph. Click to continue reading...

How exactly does a football club 'line up a move' for a player? Don't they just phone up the selling club, ask if the player is available to sign and what compensation (if any) they require for his services? Or perhaps it's an expression used by newspapers who haven't got ... Click to continue reading...

Note the full time results are in this blog. If you don't want to know the scores, please wait until you have finished watching said matches before looking at the reports.

Sunday August 24, 2008.
Wigan Athletic 0 Chelsea 1: BBC, Soccernet, Sun, Times, Daily Mail, Guardian, Independent, Sky Sports, Telegraph. Click to continue reading...

Yesterday morning saw Brazil get beaten up by the Argentina in their Olympic semi-final. Now all of the press all over Brazil are calling for manager Dunga to go away.

Here is how papers in Argentina and Brazil covered the game and the aftermath:

Clarin (Argentina) celebrates the win
Hora (Brazil)
A Noticia (Brazil)
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Iain Dowie lasted just 15 games before he was sacked as Charlton manager two seasons ago and, according to some sources, he has been on the verge of dismissal at Loftus Road before the season has even begun. QPR are now commanding far more column inches in the newspapers due the involvement of Flavio Briatore [. Click to continue reading...

Somewhere around 2004, Crystal Palace manager Ian Dowie, when talking about his sides ability to bounce back from bad results, described this phenomenon as his teams 'bouncebackability'. Pundits, always keen to add to their vocabulary started using the word and before too long, 'bouncebackability' was popping up in the newspapers, the blogs and the podcasts [. Click to continue reading...

Turkish club Fenerbahce have issued a statement on reports linking Spanish International Xabi Alonso with a move to the Sari Kanaryalar from Liverpool.

26-year-old Alonso had been linked with a move to Juventus all summer, but La Vecchia Signora's valuation of the EURO 2008 winner did not meet that of the Merseyside club. Click to continue reading...

Sometimes I am amazed at how much information there is out there on this ol' internet thing that we love to play on each day. The information all comes from various places like TV, radio, newspapers, blogs, etc. Then sometimes there is that lack of media or lack of information that can be down right surprising. Click to continue reading...

In the days before the Internet, Sky TV, cinemas, newspapers and Panini stickers, getting information and even pictures of your favourite players was hard to do. Up until the Second World War, cigarette cards where the only source of information. Before the turn of the 19th century, a time when cigarettes were wrapped in paper packets, [. Click to continue reading...

We can finally count on a bit more space in US newspapers to cover MLS and Olympic soccer now that the mystery of American football star Brett Favre's future has been solved. Instead of playing for the Green Bay Packers (or some other team), it seems he has been disguised as Americana singer Shawn Mullins. Click to continue reading...

Most newspapers have come out with slightly different version of the 'Liverpool miss out on Barry' story. Typically they quote Martin O'Neil who said that Aston Villa and Barry's advisers had agreed to set Wednesday as a deadline upon which, if nothing was heard from Liverpool, then Barry would agree to remain at his current club. Click to continue reading...

I wasn't planning a post on Lyon's supposed interest in Samuel Eto'o because I thought that these rumors would have blown away by now, but with my inbox flooded with over thirty google alerts in four different languages - in just one day - I guess I need to be more proactive about it.

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There is familiar talk circulating around the football world at the moment. It has occurred at this time of the year for the last few seasons now, but never has its idea come to fruition. The many managers, fans and newspapers who spoke of its possibility in the past were left embarrassed when their opinions [. Click to continue reading...

Newspapers have little to do these days, ,neither to websites, so the best way of filling the pages up is by creating stories and then joining these stories up to create more stories.  The end result, a load of rubbish. Juventus announced 10 days ago, having bought Poulsen from Sevilla that they are not in the [. Click to continue reading...

According to the newspapers Arsenal have been rejected by Obafemi Martins, Andrei Arshavin, Roque Santa Cruz, and Falcao. All this after all those player or their agents professed as to how excited they will welcome a move to Arsenal. Martins on 5 July 2008 "Arsenal is a big club that everyone wants to play for. Click to continue reading...

There was an interesting interview with Chairman Peter Hill-Wood on the official site yesterday. Most of it was run of the mill stuff, about how the board are patient but not complacent, and it ties in with what Danny Fiszman said a few days previously - that it's time to bring some silverware to the new stadium.

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Thanks to the hard work of one of our interns, Libby from K-State, some outlying newspapers are paying a little more attention to us lately. I missed the printed version then, but a reporter from the Arkansas City Traveler traveled to CommunityAmerica Ballpark and took in a game. Here's the online version. Click to continue reading...

Times columnist and former player Tony Cascarino has called Harry Kewell a football nihilist for being injured.

"[Harry Kewell] was an armchair player, spending more time off the pitch than on it."

(For those who are unfamiliar with the term "armchair", it essentially when applied to a person's character denotes someone who does not care about something as much as he should care or claims to care. Click to continue reading...

Last Sunday Spain celebrated its win in Euro 2008 and yesterday they celebrated as their favorite tennis player Rafael Nadal beat five time Wimbledon Champion Roger Federer in an epic five set battle.

Here is how the papers around Europe covered the action at All England Club.

The Daily Telegraph (UK)
El Mundo (Spain)
Granada Hoy (Spain) Click to continue reading...

Elma Aveiro, Cristiano Ronaldo's sister told the Sun "Cristiano wants to keep playing at Manchester United," "Real Madrid keep making very strong advances for him. There is a lot of speculation in the newspapers all the time about where he will go and what he is doing but we know who he really is and what he [. Click to continue reading...

After spending a week on Holiday in Curacao, it's time to get back to work.

The Spanish showed their true class in their finals win over Germany in Euro 2008. Could this be the win that final gets the red and yellow rolling for good. Believe me they were the best team during the month long tournament. Click to continue reading...

The newspapers in Spain are touting the new muscular and sleek Spanish team, unified in purpose. The future lies bright as Luis Aragones has molded a team that is young and resilient.

"Spain must decide whether it wants to be a bull or matador", proclaimed Cesar Luis Menotti.

This Spanish team has found ways to be both.

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It's pretty sad when two soccer columnists who represent what is supposedly one of the nation's top newspapers are so incompetent and out-of-touch with reality. Last November, I called New York Times soccer columnist Jack Bell a wanker for writing an idiotic article criticizing Fox Soccer Channel for broadcasting the Premier League, the world's most popular [. Click to continue reading...

Premiership Talk understands that Cristiano Ronaldo is set to commit his future to Manchester United. In a dramatic u-turn, Ronaldo has told close friends and family that he is fed up with the way that Madrid has handled this saga and is ready to pledge his allegiance to the reigning English and European champions. Click to continue reading...

One thing I think we're all in agreement on is that football agents talk complete tripe most of the time, mainly aiming to get their clients into the newspapers, either to engineer a move or a new contract. Vincenzo Morabito, who is rapidly becoming a pain in the neck, is again talking about how Arsenal are [. Click to continue reading...

There's more than one way to skin a cat and, according to one of the newspapers, Manchester United are certainly not giving up Cristiano Ronaldo without a fight. We all know that the Portuguese superstar is going to leave Old Trafford and there's not really much that the English champions can do about it, other than [. Click to continue reading...

Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Two names which featured in the newspapers far more than they should have done last season. The Liverpool co-owners were at each other's throats for most of last season's campaign, causing the club a great deal of embarrassment, not to mention Rafael Benitez's future looking increasingly uncertain. Click to continue reading...

There has obviously been loads of speculation with regard to who Liverpool will or won't be signing this summer. Most of this is hogwash, designed to sell newspapers to speculation-hungry punters, although the prospect of Valencia midfielder David Silva arriving at the club seems very real. None other than The Guardian report that Pool fans might [. Click to continue reading...

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News of QPR's former Director, Dunga, from today's Guardian: "Fans call for Dunga's head as Brazil stutter in World Cup qualifiersNational newspapers decry coach's 'campaign of shame'"
"... A day after Wednesday's goalless draw against Argentina in a World Cup qualifier, Brazil fans are calling for coach Dunga to be fired. Click to continue reading...