Dundee United signed 21-year-old Liverpool youth team wash-out Gary Mackay-Steven from
second-division Airdrie United last summer and the winger has been a revelation for the club in
just his first season. Winning the Scottish Premier League Young Player of the Month award for
February and earning his first cap for the Scotland U-21 team after scoring and pulling off a
breath-taking bit of skill (later dubbed the "Gazgetaway") against St.
Earlier this week, Manchester City ambassador, Patrick Vieira, claimed that Manchester United
showed "weakness" in bringing 37-year-old Paul Scholes out of retirement.
In just the few months he's been playing, Scholes has already scored more than he did all of
last season and has been an important player in every game he has featured.
When Persisam Samarinda signed Christian Gonzales and Yongki Aribowo ahead of the current
Indonesia Super League you could not help but think the club from East Kalimantan were sending out
a big message. They wanted to be in the mix when it came to dishing out the trophies and with the
aging Gonzales combing with the youthful Aribowo there was no reason for Persisam fans not to be
optimistic.
All had been quiet on the Luka Modric front until the end of last week when Spurs midfielder and
Everton loanee Steven Pienaar made comments to the press suggesting that Tottenham would have
difficulty in holding on to their Croatian genius once the season comes to an end.
It's worth looking at the South African's quotes in full,
"Luka is a top player for Spurs and if he leaves it is hard to say what will happen there,"
Pienaar told the Sunday Mirror.
John Terry Good Or Bad For England's Euro 2012 Campaign? - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
The extraordinary delays in a resolution to the Terry-Ferdinand affair have already resulted in
the wholly unnecessary cop-out by the FA and the Premier League in asking Chelsea and QPR to forego
handshakes in their recent league clash.
Yesterday's courtroom admissions that Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp's literacy is so poor that
he cannot even fill-in a teamsheet was always likely to provide Gunners with ammunition. And so it
proved! Via Arseblog
