With the dust about to settle on another Premier League season, OTP looks at the top-flight teams' dodgiest transfer investments. 1. Chris Samba (QPR) QPR's super-heavyweight defender tops our list after his arrival in January. Brought in to bolster the R's brittle defence, he succeeded only in adding an extra dimension of calamity.
1. Sunderland's dry cleaning bill is going to rival Danny Graham's transfer fee as the Black Cats' biggest waste of money in 2013 if Paolo Di Canio carries on like that. 2. Arsenal mounted a fightback against Norwich built on the dodgy officiating foundations of a wrongly awarded corner, a soft penalty and an offside [.
Steven Fletcher's injury is a massive blow to Sunderland - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Sunderland have suffered a huge blow today with the news that striker Steven Fletcher has suffered ankle ligament damage and could miss out actions for reminder of the season.
Steven Fletcher's injury would serve as a huge blow to Sunderland
Fletcher landed awkwardly against Wales on Friday in the World Cup Qualifiers while playing for Scotland and was stretched off immediately.
Stephanne Sessegnon of Sunderland (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Queens Park Rangers will host Sunderland in Premier League football action on Saturday, March 9 with the game to be played at the Loftus Road Stadium in London. The match begins at 3pm local time.
The Rangers have had it really tough and for the better part of this season continue to languish at the bottom-most spot.
According to BBC Sport, ex-Swansea City man Danny Graham has completed a three-and-a-half year deal worth£5 million to join Premier League club Sunderland. The 27-year-old currently has 12 goals to his name in all competitions for the Swans, and will look to continue his fine goal form for his new club Sunderland.
Danny Graham arrives at Sunderland for medical as Boro in bid to hijack move - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Sunderland have agreed to sign Swansea City's striker Danny Graham for £5 million while his former clubMiddlesbrough are looking to hijack the deal late on.
Despite fans' protests, Danny Graham arrives Wearside for medical
The 27-year-old will undergo a medical at Sunderland's Academy of Light training complex today and will most likely make his debut for the Black Cats against Reading on Saturday.
Apparently the Swan song of Michael Laudrup this season is one that all were ready to be a part of as according to reports from SkySports, star striker Danny Graham has asked to leave the club due to personal reasons.
The Swansea City manager confirmed the reports that the club will consider selling Graham if his desire is to leave and the offer is right:
If he comes and says he wants to leave and there's a very good offer we'll have to look into it.
Things are really hotting up in the Crappyteam Won Cup, the competition no self-respecting team wants to win. After Premier League side Aston Villa attempted to give League Two Bradford a bye to to the final in their semi-final first-leg on Tuesday night, last night it was the turn of European champions Chelsea to give [.
Danny Graham to solve Sunderland's striking woes? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Sunderland are looking favourites to land Swansea striker Danny Graham and are lining up a £5 million bid for the Englishman in the January transfer window.
The Black Cats are struggling at 14th in the Premier League table and manager Martin O'Neill has felt the need to bolster the squad, especially on the attacking front.
Swansea tough nut to crack for Sunderland - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Swansea look one of the bets of the weekend at 2.2 with Boylesports to beat Sunderland.
Despite the fact that they have won all three of their games this season by an aggregate of 11
goals to one, and have a tremendous record at home bookmakers still seem to take them on.
Swansea remained perfect on the season, Man Utd held on at Old Trafford, and Chelsea blanked
Newcastle United in the English Premier League on August 25, 2012. Other results include Everton
winning at Aston Villa, QPR earning a draw at Norwich City, Wigan winning at Southampton, and Spurs
held at home by West Brom.
Swansea City 3-0 West Ham United Premier League 25 August 2012
A clash of two rather different styles of play here, with Michael Laudrup's smooth and sexy
Swans starting well against Sam Allardyce's more prosaic Hammers.
szólj hozzá: Swansea vs West Ham 3:0 GOALS HIGHLIGHTS
Michael Laudrup must be wondering whats all the fuss about Premier League football having won
5-0 last week in their opening game of the season the Swan's took liberty in demolishing West Ham
3-0 today at the Liberty stadium with goals from Angel Rangel (20), Michu (29) and Danny Graham
(64).
The below word cloud was generated using all of Wigan Athletic's match reports from the BBC
website from the 2011/2012 season. The more frequently a word is used, the larger it appears on
screen. The image was generated using the wonderful wordle.net.
Interestingly the words "possession", "pass" and "tiki-taffa" do not feature heavily on Swansea
City's word cloud for the 2011/2012 season.
As a Spurs fan, living in West Yorkshire isn't easy. The only game I've managed to get to this
season was Blackburn away, which, regardless of the 2-1 victory, wasn't the most exciting Premier
League occasion to attend.
One thing I have managed to enjoy this season, however, has been my local side Huddersfield
Town's rise to the Championship – most notably the prolific young goalscorer Jordan Rhodes.
Official Premier League stats reveal the best England squad for Euro 2012 - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
Roy Hodgson unveils his Euro 2012 squad tomorrow, and official data released today by the EA
SPORTS Player Performance Index reveals that Norwich City stars, John Ruddy and Grant Holt plus
Swansea striker Danny Graham should ALL be boarding the plane to the Ukraine.
Andy Carroll tries a trick...We all hoped that the last game of
the season would bring us some joy, but, as predicted, it didn't. A slightly changed Liverpool XI
couldn't muster much of a performance for the final game and it was only Andy Carroll that really
threatened the Swansea keeper.
Danny Graham struck four minutes from time as Swansea ended a memorable debut Barclays Premier
League campaign with victory over Liverpool at the Liberty Stadium.
The striker fired low to Alexander Doni's left from Angel Rangel's astute ball across the box to
give the Welsh side a win to rank alongside their successes over Arsenal and Manchester City
earlier this term.
Swansea City 1-0 Liverpool Premier League 20th May 2012
They may have won one cup and made the final of another, but after spending a whole load of cash
on the likes of Andy Carroll, Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam, surely Kenny Dalglish and co.
Manchester City won the title, Arsenal finished in third place, and Blackburn were relegated in
the English Premier League on May 13, 2012.
Chelsea 2-1 Blackburn Rovers
Two first half goals were enough for Chelsea to hold on for the three points. Blackburn scored a
second half goal to make things interesting but couldn't finish the comeback.
Swansea City 2-3 Norwich City Premier League 11th February 2012
An 18-minute second-half goal-spree secured all three points for the Canaries at the Liberty
Stadium on Saturday in a superbly entertaining battle of the Premier League new-boys.
Swansea City 1-1 Chelsea Premier League 31th January 2012
A last-gasp Neil Taylor own-goal saved Chelsea from another disappointing defeat on Tuesday
night, after Swansea gave the home fans another superb display of pacy attacking football.
Cesar Azpilicueta of Chelsea ans Wayne Routledge of Swansea City-Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images
If Chelsea is to advance to the Capitol One Cup Final, the Blues must overcome a two-goal deficit. Swansea City maintained an excellent game plan in their first leg controlling the midfield along with finishing when it counted.
Two Branislav Ivanovic errors turned into two goals for Swansea City in a 2-0 visitors' victory at Stamford Bridge in the first leg of their Capital One Cup semifinal.
The bad night for the Serbian defender started in the 39th minute. After receiving a pass from backup goalkeeper Ross Turnbull, Ivanovic turned the ball over to a high-pressing Jonathan De Guzman.
Swansea City played their final match of their first-ever US summer tour last night against San
Jose Earthquakes. Swansea took the lead through Danny Graham, and added a second goal to make it
2-0 after new signing Chico Flores scored ...
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The San Jose Eathquakes are the MLS comeback kings of 2012, and Swansea City were the latest
team to find that out.
Inspired by two late goals from Steven Lenhart, the Earthquakes rallied to a 2-2 draw with
Swansea in a friendly played at Buck Shaw Stadium on Tuesday night.
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Swansea City v Newcastle United full match video, highlights and post match interviews. Teams,
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(Danny Graham 65), Wayne Routledge.
Newcastle were interested in Danny Graham while he was still at Watford eighteen months ago, but decided not to being the Gateshead-born striker to Newcastle. Danny Graham - Newcastle interested? And with Danny not getting too many starts at Swansea these days, it seems he's looking for a move in the January transfer window, but [.
Should have gotten this done 2 days ago but was caught up in my new job this week. If only I was being paid enough to blog everyday, which I don't. So here's the shorten version of it.
Started poorly Continuing on from the Southampton game, another 45 minutes of poor-ness all around.
We watched the Swansea Arsenal game yesterday, and the 2-2 draw was a good game to watch with Michu and Gateshead-born Danny Graham scoring two second half goals for Swansea. Michu - a top striker for 2M by Swansea The 26 year-old Spaniard Michu is one of the best buys of the summer with the [...]
szólj hozzá: Swansea vs West Ham 3:0 GOALS HIGHLIGHTS
What a shambolic display by West Ham! Jussi Jaaskelainen in goal just makes an unhloly mess as
he reacts too late to Angel Rangel's shot allowing it to deflect off his hands straight to goal.
Then more disaster as Michu steals James Collins's disaster of a chipped back pass and the rush is
on but the Spanish midfielder beats Jaaskelainen for his third Premiership goal.
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has taken a swipe at reports in some Sunday newspapers that he
will leave the manager's position in the summer.
John W Henry and Tom Werner, who head the Fenway Sports Group, were expected to meet with the Scot
following their final day defeat at Swansea.
Danny Graham's 100th career goal condemned the Reds to an eighth-placed finish and a 14th defeat of
the season.
Newcastle's forced sale of top goalscorer Demba Ba to Chelsea for £7.5M has once again created a vacuum along the Magpies'front-line
In a slightly similar situation, Andy Carroll was sold to Liverpool for £35M on transfer deadline day in January 2011, which left the club without time to replace their main striker.
Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish lamented his side's late 1-0 defeat to Swansea on the final day of
the season.
The Reds slumped to defeat thanks to Danny Graham's late strike as they finished in eighth spot and
below neighbours Everton in the table.
Dalglish felt the defeat was harsh on Liverpool after creating the better goalscoring opportunities
in the second half after Swansea dominated the first half.
Feed the Yak- Along with Danny Graham and Grant Holt, Yakubu is one of the top three
value-for-money forwards in the Fantasy Premier League. Available at £5.9 million, he has scored
more league goals than either Balotelli or Dzeko. He ...
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