Arsenal’s Wiltshire to be England’s lynchpin against Danes

February 9, 2011

England coach Fabio Capello hailed Jack Wilshere's as incredible for his progress at Arsenal this season and told reporters that he plans to base the national team for the European Championships around the combative midfielder. England prepare for a friendly match against Denmark this evening with Frank Lampard in the centre ...

Spurs chief savages West Ham stadium bid

February 8, 2011

Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has accused his West Ham counterpart of scaremongering  after she savaged the north London team’s proposals for taking over the Olympic Stadium in Stratford. Karen Brady believes that Spurs’ intentions to rip out the athletics track after the 2012 London Olympic Games represents a huge waste ...

£50m Torres in debut loss to former club Liverpool

February 7, 2011

English football’s most expensive ever signing was substituted in the 66th minute as his new team were defeated by his former Liverpudlian employers by one goal to nil. Fernando Torres, £50million of Spanish striker who just moved to league champions Chelsea, was roundly booed by his old fans as he was ...

Stab vests for the World Cup are a joke

January 20, 2010

A company registered in London and based in South Africa has come under fire from football fans for playing on people's fears that they might be in danger of violent attacks during this summer's Football World Cup. The stab vests are being marketed as a way for people to ensure ...

Harry Redknapp to appear in court for tax evasion

January 15, 2010

A long running investigation by the police into corruption in English football has resulted in Tottenham Hotspur boss Harry Redknapp being accused of tax evasion. It is estimated that the sixty-two year old owes around £40,000. Mr. Redknapp voluntarily visited Bishopsgate police station in London where he has been officially ...

Humiliated Wigan players to reimburse fans

November 24, 2009

Embarrassed members of the Wigan Athletic football team who lost to Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend by 9 goals to 1 have said that they will personally reimburse every fan who bought a ticket for the game. Mario Melchiot who was playing in defence during Sunday's rout said on behalf ...

Rangers fans accused of improper conduct

November 6, 2009

This week fans of Rangers football club were condemned for their behavior at a Champions League match in Bucharest against rivals Unirea Urziceni. Although the incident was described as minor, police felt the need to use CS Gas to quell the fans. Rangers' boss, Martin Bain said that he was ...

Wigan Athletic striker sacked by club as court sends him to jail

October 30, 2009

Wigan Athletic striker, Marlon King has been sentenced to serve eighteen months behind bars for sexually assaulting and causing actual bodily harm to a female student in a Central London bar last December. The footballer punched the young woman in the face after she spurned his sexual advances, shattering her ...

Footballer accused of breaking woman’s nose

October 27, 2009

A jury at London's Southwark Crown Court has been hearing a case against a Premier League football player. Marlon King, who plays for Wigan Athletic now, has been accused of breaking a woman's nose with a single punch after she spurned his sexual advances. King, who was on loan to ...

Computer program to decide football fixtures

August 17, 2009

A professor at the University of Nottingham’s School of Computer Science, believes that he has developed a computer program that can solve the problems of timetabling English football matches. The software, developed by Professor Graham Kendall is specially designed to deal with football fixtures over Christmas and the New Year. “The ...