Today is the Champions' League draw. This, coupled with the lack of progress on the Berbatov front (only four days to go), have made my job infinitely easier I don't have to come up with a longish post today. Since the Champions' League draw starts at 4:30pm (BST) I will leave the stage to you [... Click to continue reading...

Ah, the sweet smell of victory! It was by the slimmest of margins. It again showed what we lack as a side, while also clearly showing our strengths. But the win despite what the scoreline suggested was achieved while playing some good football. Sir Alex, shorn of his star wingers decided to push Evra [. Click to continue reading...

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Since we've been live on our new web host Tiger Technologies since Saturday night, not all is well. There seems to be a long delay is posting comments, although when I post and look at things it seems OK - but many of you I know are having difficulties. I apologize about this and am trying my [...] Click to continue reading...

We have now switched to our new servers and unfortunately had a disastrous switchover yesterday, where the new web hosting company couldn't get us online for over 40 hours. We moved to another web server - Tiger Technologies - and have upgraded our services - so we should be a lot better now. We did this [. Click to continue reading...

We have now switched to our new servers and will quickly ascertain what extra services we need to keep up with the increased load we are getting on the site. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Newcastle United Blog – Site News", url: "http://nufcblog.com/2008/08/21/site-news/the-newcastle-united-blog-%e2%80%93-site-news/" }); Click to continue reading...

Manchester United v. Newcastle UnitedEnglish Premier League, Week 1Stadium: Old Trafford, England Match Time: 16:00 BST, 11:00 EST<h3>Match Preview:</h3>Another exciting Premiership season is upon us! I'll be doing matches every weekend (hopefully), and I'm looking forward to watching a whole lot of football. Click to continue reading...

So everyone knows this by now. It's not an April fool's joke because, well, it's not April. It's cold hard truth. Excuse me for a moment. Hahahahahaha! Ahem. Ok. Now I don't know what's so funny but I can't help but laugh at this transfer. Mikael Silvestre has passed up on a chance to get a testimonial [. Click to continue reading...

The Charlatans, fronted by Salford lad Tim Burgess, performed at V Festival at the weekend, receiving rave reviews. Their most recent album was given away free online for fans, ranking 2nd in the indie chart. This was a band fully involved in the Madchester scene that was knocking about in the 80s, becoming popular after supporting [. Click to continue reading...

Yes. It's gone all quiet. There is deafening silence. For all of Dimitar Berbatov's reported pleading to be allowed to follow his dreams, there is really nothing happening at all. Instead the papers have decided to lazily speculate that we're interested in the likes of Huntelaar, although there has been little, by way of credible [. Click to continue reading...

An update for regular Soccerlens readers (and those who're subscribed to the RSS feed). We have a few new sections on the site that you might not be aware of: Fixtures Results Tables Live Scores Fixtures and results are also broken down by team, so you can get team-specific info if you want. Live scores are a work in progress [. Click to continue reading...

We want to apologize to our readers for the terrible performance of the web-site over the last several days, and even weeks. We have been told because of the significant increased hits we are now getting, we will need to move to our own dedicated server. Now that I know what I have to do to [...] Click to continue reading...

Where is Dimitar Berbatov? According to eyewitnesses, he was last seen playing for Tottenham in their opening day defeat at the hands of Middlesbrough. However, an insider at Tottenham Hotspur (who spoke to us at the condition of anonymity) revealed that Spurs are using an 'exact double' for Berbatov these days because they just can't find [. Click to continue reading...

So, aren't you all excited? Can you even contain yourself? Well, I can't wait for the 08/09 season (for United) to start. So let's kick start our season, proper, with a brief preview of the Barcodes game. Michael Owen looks like he won't be playing for the Magpies; interestingly he has never started the season for [. Click to continue reading...

We're into a new week, and the Olympics are just a few days away. While they'll certainly be taking plenty of headlines, there's going to be a lot going on in transfer-related news, and you know that's what I'm here for. What's going in the transfer world today? Well, you'll find out right now. [.. Click to continue reading...

This blog is not dead. I've been out of town during the weekend, and have had some urgent matters to attend to. Apologies to everyone for not covering the testimonial of a true United legend. Regular service will resume either later in the day or tomorrow. Until then feel free to discuss away as the lads [. Click to continue reading...

The new design has seemingly gone down well with the majority (I'll rightly or wrongly attribute the negative reviews to all the Chelsea and Arsenal fans we had stopping by yesterday!) with 60% of people rating it 8/10 or higher. So if you enjoy reading the blog, there are two other easy ways to access the [. Click to continue reading...

This comes fresh off the Madrid press. Well not fresh exactly but outrageous nonetheless. Ramon Calderon has again, not surprisingly, opened his mouth. Consider this from the Telegraph: "[United and Ronaldo] will talk next week and if, after this conversation, United decide to sell him, then of course Madrid will be there. Click to continue reading...

With the help of Ahmed at Soccerlens, RoM now has a lovely new layout. We've hopefully ironed out any glitches, but if you notice any problems, don't hesitate to leave a message here to let us know. The design is in keeping with the forum, which is a place all of you are more than welcome [...] Click to continue reading...

MLS All-Stars v. West Ham United BMO Field, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Thursday 24 July 2008 Kickoff: 19:00 EST The best players in MLS will take on English Premiership side, West Ham United, in the 13th annual MLS All-Star Game. Soccerlens will be bringing the action to you live! Join us 15 minutes before kickoff! Click to continue reading...

There have been requests for a fantasy football league to be setup in the comments, so I thought I'd do it. I just wasn't sure if it would keep up the attention span of people for an entire season, but hey, if there are prizes to be won, then I guess that is enough motivation. Anyway, [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...

Some new things that we've done to the site that we want to communicate with our readers. Click to continue reading...

Hello folks. Yesterday the site was offline for 8 to 10 hours due to a problem with the webhost (for those who're interested, it was a corrupt hard drive on the server where the RoM blog was hosted and it took a while to recover all data and fix the server). We had already planned to move [...] Click to continue reading...

The Sun runs a story today that Rio Ferdinand could face a four match ban. It's only the Sun at the moment that carries this 'exclusive' (that's why they call it an exclusive, don't they?), but one wonders why it's taken them this long. Ferdinand lashed out after the Chelsea game, which seems like aeons [. Click to continue reading...

The Newcastle United Blog has entered into an exclusive promotion with TOFFS, to allow our readers to buy the famous TOFFS retro shirts at 10% off. Click to continue reading...