....For a family emergency. This of course comes just hours after Steve Goff reported a meeting took placed between the Colorado Rapids and Clavijo in which Clavijo thought he was sure to get the sack.

In the days of the old Soviet Union, much was gathered about the secret goings on of organizations behind the Iron Curtain by paying keen attention to timing of travel, "sick" relatives, timing of press releases, "ill" leaders and the like. Click to continue reading...

Hot on the heels of Sepp Blatter's comments that Christiano Ronald is a ‘modern day slave', football has another. Andrei Arshavin has decided to go on strike because his current club Zenit St Petersburg are pricing him out of a move to Tottenham.

Spurs have agreed personal terms with the player but they will not meet Zenit's ridiculous asking price of over £20m. Click to continue reading...

Hot on the heels of Sepp Blatter's comments that Christiano Ronald is a ‘modern day slave', football has another. Andrei Arshavin has decided to go on strike because his current club Zenit St Petersburg are pricing him out of a move to Tottenham.

Spurs have agreed personal terms with the player but they will not meet Zenit's ridiculous asking price of over £20m. Click to continue reading...

Andrei Arshavin on strike as hopes of Tottenham move fade

Tottenham's hopes of signing Andrei Arshavin appear to be dead in the water, with Zenit St Petersburg refusing to lower their £27 million asking price for the Russian playmaker.

Tottenham's hopes of signing Andrei Arshavin appear to be dead in the water, with Zenit St Petersburg refusing to lower their £27 million asking price for the Russian playmaker. Click to continue reading...

Prepare for news concerning perhaps the most bizarre potential transfer in recent memory. The word on the street is that Barcelona and Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o shall be signing for Uzbekistan club Kuruvchi by the end of the week, having landed at the world famous Tashkent International Airport this morning.

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Something tells me come hell or high water Ballack wont miss the final however if worst does happen it would be a great shame to lose a decent player from one of the largest finals in the world.

If he does play it will add to the list of potential Premier League stars in this Sunday's final. Click to continue reading...

History : - Germany have a superior head-to-head record against Spain. In 19 previous meetings, the Germany have triumphed eight times to Spain's five.
This will be Germany's sixth final, having won three of their previous five - won in 1972, lost in 1976, won in 1980, lost in 1992, won in 1996.

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1980 was an interesting year in sports. The US beat the Soviet Union in the most famous hockey game ever. The Wenzels were dominating the world of competitive skiing, and Björn Borg won both the French Open and Wimbledon. But the most significant sports event of that year from our limited perspective was the 1980 European Championship, the first to include a group stage.

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Welcome to the first of our summer specials which sees us focusing on the big football action taking place over the summer: World Cup qualifiers; Copa Libertadores action and of course, the European Championships. On this show we look back at the history of the European Championships as well as focusing on this year's version. Click to continue reading...

This is the second part of a retrospective look at Euro '64 (read part one here), itself the second in a historical series looking at previous European Championships ahead of Euro 2008 (see part one on 1960 here). 1964 European Nations' Cup Finals Host: Spain Winners: Spain Yes, you that read that correctly: Spain, the perennial underachievers [. Click to continue reading...

In the second of our historical series looking at previous European Championships ahead of Euro 2008, we now turn to 1964. Last time, we looked at the first tournament held in France, won by the Soviet Union. 1964 European Nations Cup Qualifiers Like four years earlier, the format was vastly different from the extravaganza put [. Click to continue reading...

We hail the European Championships as a major tournament these days, but that hasn't always been the case. In this series, we'll look at each tournament held since it began in 1960, covering one roughly every two weeks until we get to Euro 2008 next June. As usual on Pitch Invasion, we'll look at [. Click to continue reading...