Its official. According to readers of Just-Football, Manchester United will win the English Premier League this season. Back in August, on the eve of the new football season we opened a poll asking who would win the 2008/2009 Premier League. Over the last month or so voting has been taking place, with United and Chelsea neck-and-neck for long spells of the voting. Click to continue reading...

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Birthdays:

- Kenny Sansom Turns 50 - Stats-

- Ex-QPR Loan, Martin Cranie, Turns 22 - Stats

- And apparently also...Luigi De Canio, Turning 51- "1957: Luigi De Canio (51) – Former Udinese, Napoli, Reggina and Siena coach, who most recently had a spell at English Championship side Queens Park Rangers. Click to continue reading...

I'm buzzing from that France performance. I wrote about it a bit already, but the buzz still hasn't subsided.

I'm wary of getting carried away with hyperbole, but Yoann Gourcuff was a revelation, I thought. Starting in that most coveted of positions, central attacking midfield, the number 10 position, the Zidane role, he had a fine debut, with any number of marauding runs forward.

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A couple of years ago, the Reds starlet had many of us dreaming we'd found the next home grown talent capable of breaking through to the first team. Playing alongside his hero (Fowler), he scored on his Liverpool debut at just 17 years of age.

Last season he had 2 loan spells and scored a stunning volley on his debut for Notts County, sadly both loan spells were cut short because the clubs couldn't afford his wages. Click to continue reading...

Bournemouth have signed Liverpool's teenage striker Craig Lindfield on loan until the end of December.

Lindfield has yet to make a first-team appearance for Liverpool, but had loan spells at Notts County and Chester City last season.

He will be in Bournemouth's squad for Saturday's League Two game with Exeter City and Kevin Bond is happy with his new recruit. Click to continue reading...

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Just over a year ago:

July 19, 2007 FULHAM OFFICIAL SITE - Lee Cook Joins

Fulham Football Club can confirm that Lee Cook has joined the Club from Queens Park Rangers on a four year deal that will see the 24 year-old player at the Club until 2011. Click to continue reading...

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As all the messageboards were saying before the official announcement. The QPR announcement is a little bit more effusive than the brief Fulham statement! So first there were months of rumours before we sold Cook; then after we sold him, there have been months and months of reports of his return: Hopes raised; and then dashed. Click to continue reading...

Nolberto Solano has admitted he will consider a short-term deal with a club in England while he waits to learn whether he will join up with David Beckham at the Galaxy.
Winger Solano is hoping to join Los Angeles Galaxy, the English league's first Peruvian player was released from his contract at West Ham last month - and he is prepared to leave the country 10 years after arriving to join Newcastle. Click to continue reading...

Man United are lining up Spurs' assistant manager Gus Poyet according to reports in the Mail on Sunday.

The Uruguaian coach joined the club just last year and has proved an instant hit at the club for which he previously played. Second in line to Juande Ramos, this is already the 40 year old's third job in his short coaching career after spells at Swindon and Leeds.

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Kheli Dube scored in the 70th minute and it was all the Revs needed to overcome a shorthanded Santos Laguna team in a 1-0 victory in the opener of SuperLiga Group B play Sunday at Gillette Stadium.

After an opening 39 minutes where both teams had spells of possession, but neither managed to create much offensively, the Revs were handed an important advantage when Juan Pablo Rodriguez was ejected for throwing an elbow. Click to continue reading...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Kheli Dube scored in the 70th minute and it was all the Revs needed to overcome a shorthanded Santos Laguna team in a 1-0 victory in the opener of SuperLiga Group B play Sunday at Gillette Stadium.

After an opening 39 minutes where both teams had spells of possession, but neither managed to create much offensively, the Revs were handed an important advantage when Juan Pablo Rodriguez was ejected for throwing an elbow. Click to continue reading...

Striker Peter Crouch has finally completed his move from Liverpool to Portsmouth, signing a four-year contract with the FA Cup holders.

The deal, which could be worth up to £11 million, sees the 27-year-old return to Portsmouth six years after leaving the south coast club.

Crouch jumped at the chance of regular first-team football having struggled to establish himself in Liverpool's starting side. Click to continue reading...

Stevenage Borough last night announced that former Ipswich academy coach Steve Greaves has been appointed as first team coach under the new managerial set up at Broadhall Way. Greaves spent 14 years as a coach at Portman Road after being forced to quit playing football at the age of just 24 after spells with Fulham, [. Click to continue reading...

These two teams met in their opening match of the tournament, with Spain convincing 4-1 winners. Since then, Russia had surprised everybody by not just recovering but improving enough to demolish the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, while Spain had been winning withut exactly bowling people over.
And yet this game finished with an almost identical three-goal victory for Spain. Click to continue reading...

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All QPR fans wish Waddock the very best of luck.

Aldershot Official Site - Management Team Sign New Contracts

Aldershot Town FC are delighted to announce that manager Gary Waddock and Coach Martin Kuhl have signed new three year agreements with the club. Click to continue reading...

During Paul Ince's rise to the rarefied heights of the Premier League, John Barnes has been struggling to even get recognition in the foothills of the game.

Ince became the top flight's first black English manager when he was appointed as Mark Hughes' successor at Blackburn on Sunday.

Barnes, on the other hand, has been applying for vacancies in the lower leagues without success. Click to continue reading...

All those years of planning, and Switzerland's journey in the European Championships is over. None of this is to say that they have played badly. Indeed, they were better team against the Czech Republic and were desperately, desperately unlucky to be knocked out tonight by a late, deflected goal in a match that they had dominated for long spells. Click to continue reading...

There's nothing goalkeepers dread more than 35° heat on Soccer Sunday. You're likely scratching your head wondering why I'd be complaining seeing as I'm the keeper and we, as keepers, tend to do a lot of standing around and looking handsome as hell. Allow me to enlighten you to the goings-on in my little world. Click to continue reading...

The player many Liverpool fans call GOD is struggling to find a new home having been released from Anfield following the Champions League final defeat against AC Milan in Greece. Although he was prolific in both spells at Anfield Fowler found it difficult in his spells at Leeds United and Manchester City. Fowler will not be [...] Click to continue reading...