When Manchester City dispatched Manchester United in commanding fashion earlier this season, the
City steamroller was powerful, efficient, and impressive. It looked downright unstoppable. As Kevin
McCarra noted the day of City's 6-1 trouncing of United in
The Guardian, "For the football
world at large, it is more significant still that City have 33 goals from nine league games.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter is facing what could be the toughest phase of his career as football
head in the more than 10 years since he took over from Joao Havelange.
The president recently came out to say that England are still bitter at him for their failed
attempt to land the hosting rights to the 2018 tournament.
-Ben McCormick
One of the most common questions any US Soccer fan asks is who is going to replace Landon Donovan
and Clint Dempsey when they retire. They have held the attack together for the past few years and
fast approaching is a time when the US will have to rely on someone other than "Deuce" or "'Cakes"
for a goal when they need it.
So near, yet so far. Brighton & Hove Albion travel to North-East London to play Dagenham &
Redbridge in a league match for the first time this evening with the scent of promotion heavy in
the air. That Gus Poyet's team has been the stand-out team in League One this season is inarguable,
but in recent weeks they have started to give the impression of being a team that is starting, just
starting, to run on empty.
By Chris Wright
Another week, another 'Ledley King is falling to bits' update.
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has confirmed that his stricken centre-back does now require
surgery on the troublesome groin problem that forced the defender to break down during training a
couple of weeks ago adding that the 30-year-old defender isn't even close to making a return to the
first-team fold.
This time last week, we trailed our round-up of the ten worst football films ever
made. We meant it. This evening, we kick-off with the first two, and first up is Nick
Love's re-make of the 1988 film, "The Firm".
Dipping one's toe into the world of hoolie-porn can be a dispiriting business.
