The Magpies currently reside in the relegation places after a poor start to the season. True enough, they have played away at Arsenal and Manchester United, yet they have also lost at home to Blackburn and Hull. Their defeat to Rovers on Saturday was a shambles, especially the first half, ... Click to continue reading...

Another game ,another defensive shambles for Everton who got dumped out of the Carling Cup by Blackburn last night. So woeful were the Toffees that the travelling support even booed them.... Moyes' men have been anemic all season and yesterday's game was no different, succumbing to a solitary Blackburn . Click to continue reading...

Sorry for the absence, folks. Your humble Premiership blogger makes his salary by working in the world of Wall Street...as you can imagine, it's been a busy couple of weeks.

But we're back now and ready for uninterrupted Premiership coverage from here on out, or at least until the next financial apocalypse threatens our way of life. Click to continue reading...

American soccer fans keep constant vigil, waiting for signs that their beloved USA is creeping toward the moment when it casts off history's shackles and becomes a Great Footballing Nation. Generally, this watchful stance is expressed in excitement over new club youth-development schemes, national team performances ("we beat Guatemala again! Click to continue reading...

Arsenal legend Paul Merson has launched a scathing attack on the Gunners' bitter rivals Spurs after labelling them a "shambles". Under Spanish coach Juande Ramos Tottenham have made their worst league start in 34 years, with just one point from their opening four Premier League games. Spurs have only themselves to blame for the state they [. Click to continue reading...

Former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson has launched a scathing attack on the Gunners' bitter rivals Spurs in his newspaper column by dubbing the north London side a "shambles". Under Spanish coach Juande Ramos Tottenham have made their worst league start in 34 years, with just one point from their opening four Premier League games. Click to continue reading...

Former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson has launched a scathing attack on the Gunners' bitter rivals Spurs in his newspaper column by dubbing the north London side a "shambles". Under Spanish coach Juande Ramos Tottenham have made their worst league start in 34 years, with just one point from their opening four Premier League games. Click to continue reading...

With the American markets in shambles after Lehman Brothers Chapter 11 filing, AIG's current credit issues and Merrill Lynch's current sale to Bank of America, the world of American finance could not be in a worse situation than it is right now. For Liverpool's American ownership, this is probably the type . Click to continue reading...

Hello there, hope you had a fine weekend and aren't too grumpified this Monday morning.

The weekend's Premier League games have been interesting, I have to say. We quietly and efficiently got on with the job of beating Blackburn and left all the drama to the others. United were hapless against Liverpool and had Vidic sent off eventually - I thought his first challenge was a straight red, as was his second as he had no intention of playing the ball.

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It may only be one victory but England's comprehensive beating of Croatia on Wednesday night could represent a dramatic turn in fortunes for the famous footballers who for so long have failed miserably to live up to their nations' expectations. Not quite good enough under Sven Goran Eriksson, an absolute shambles under Steve McClaren, and now [. Click to continue reading...

I see that Garber and the gang over at MLS are finally going act on the continued shambles that is the MLS schedule as it relates to international competition, both club and country. I don't really like the idea of the split schedule, though I see its merits, especially with the Gold and Confederations Cup [. Click to continue reading...

After Saturday's shambles at Ebbsfleet, Stevenage improved to give their best performance of the season so far against Crawley today. Unfortunately though it wasn't good enough for the three points after a mix up in the Boro box led to Glenn Wilson hammering in the equaliser, but the performance on the whole gives some hope going [. Click to continue reading...

Tonight it emerges that Phil Senderos could be off, on loan, to AC Milan.

My first thought? Bad timing, really.

Phil Senderos has blown hot and cold for some time and it's pretty clear that the way things are right now, he's not first choice at Arsenal. He had an average season last year and with Djourou seemingly ahead in the pecking order, something had to give.

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I'd like to avoid talking about you-know-what but you can't really can you?

What a shambles.

I don't agree with people that it is a lack of passion on the part of the England players. I do think they lack confidence and belief as a team though. Partly because of how badly things have gone in recent times and partly because they know as well as we do that the formula simply isn't right. Click to continue reading...

Last night Vedran Corluka was a Spurs player, today he's been forced back to Manchester by City boss Mark Hughes. Everything was tied up apart from his work permit and he was meant to be attending the Roma game today.

Things are never perfect where Spurs are concerned but I feel for Man City fans, the club seems an absolute shambles and Mark Hughes must be wondering what he's doing there. Click to continue reading...

Advertising is a complex beast, something i know all too well these days. The invention of the internet has revolutionised how you market a product and a brand, and how you can thus create a romantic lifestyle image for the public to buy into. However, I can catagorically tell you as an industry professional that the following is an example of exactly how not to go about things. Click to continue reading...