Articles tagged ‘Football Soccer’
Boa viagem Baptista
By Chris | April 19th, 2007 |
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Julio Baptista, Arsenal’s Brazilian player on loan for the season from Real Madrid, seems to be reading from the Jose Antonio Reyes script of blaming the lifestyle in England and the weather for his own lousy form.
Baptista’s nickname is The Beast and he’s a big old boy but he doesn’t have the ability to match [...]
David Dein leaves Arsenal
By Chris | April 18th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
News coming in this evening that Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein has left the club with immediate effect, which I think is a bit of a disaster for the club and could have a longer term impact.
As well as being vice-chairman, he’s one of the major shareholders in Arsenal, the man in charge of the day [...]
England to play Brazil at Wembley
By Chris | April 11th, 2007 | 55 Comments »
The Football Association has announced that Brazil will be England’s first opponents at the new Wembley Stadium in a game on Friday 1 June. Its almost seven years since England played a game there when they lost to Germany 1-0 and the old Wembley wasn’t a great advantage for them when they played Brazil either, [...]
Chelsea tell their fans be nice to Tottenham
By Chris | April 6th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Chelsea are at home tomorrow to Tottenham in a big London derby that is important to both teams. The club seems to have gone all politicially correct and lost their sense of humour though, because they’ve been warning their fans on the Chelsea website against making ‘anti-semitic’ chants against Tottenham fans.
For anyone not familiar [...]
Sport in London this weekend
By Chris | March 30th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
After the break for two of the most dismal England games in memory, the Premiership and the rest of football get back to normal. There are five Premiership games in London this weekend, on Saturday Charlton play Wigan, Fulham play Portsmouth, bottom of the Premiership Watford have a London derby with champions Chelsea, struggling West [...]
London teams worth revealed
By Chris | March 30th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
London has four of the world’s top 25 most valuable football clubs according to a new report form Forbes magazine. Manchester United and Real Madrid are numbers 1 and 2 but even as a fan I was surprised that Arsenal rated as the third most valuable team in the world with a value of $915million.
If [...]
A win-win London derby
By Chris | March 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
As an Arsenal fan what’s the best you can hope for when your deadly North London rival Tottenham play nouveau riche West London wannabes Chelsea in the FA Cup quarterfinal. You’d like them both to get thrashed but as that’s not possible a Tottenham defeat at home is probably the prefered choice.
We got that last [...]
What would Simon Cowell make of this bunch
By Chris | March 14th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Came across this rather strange video today featuring present and former Arsenal players Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Patrick Vieira, Freddie Ljungberg, Sylvain Wiltord, Emmanuel Petit and Sol Campbell along with a whole roster of other world football stars including Ronaldinho, Zidane, Totti, Cannavaro, Robertos Carlos, Figo and Makelele singing along in English to a song [...]
Season over for Thierry Henry
By Chris | March 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Arsenal captain Thierry Henry is out injured for the rest of the season, he’s been in and out of the team since the start with various problems and could use a three or four month lay off to come back at his best next season. Here’s a clip of some highlights from his early Arsenal [...]
London’s Wembley Stadium just about ready
By Chris | March 9th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Football Association are due to take control of the new Wembley Stadium today after the last checks are made by the local council and a safety certificate is issued. The new Wembley is a year over due and its more than six years since the old one closed but England is finally going to [...]
