Fromer Spurs' manager Marttin Jol has come out today and heaped praise on Newcastle soon to be announced new manager Chris Hughton. Martin Jol - former Spurs' manager Hughton and Jol, working together, came agonisingly close to taking Tottenham to the European Champions League. Newcastle fans might forget that Chris served 11 years as a coach [. Click to continue reading...

We've linked up with a massive Birmingham blog, Joys & Sorrows. One of their readers off their forum, Nat, wrote a great article in relation to today's game.

In recent times

At the moment, Spurs are enjoying their most productive period since the days of Terry Venables, Lineker and Gazza.

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One of the Bundesliga's funner 4-4-2's.

GOALKEEPER
Rene Adler
Near Elder (if word about his back is true)

DEFENDERS
Paul Stalteri
Ultra Pilates (perhaps, but what about Ultra defending?)

Michael Gravgaard
Alarm!

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Oh, what an eventful day! The merry-go-round is about to turn. First of all, the first big transfer for Bayern Munich this summer. Stuttgart's Mario Gomez will join the Bavarians for the new season in exchange for 30million Euro, which makes it the most expensive transfer in Bundesliga history. The 23-year-old striker is about to sign a contract for apparently four years.

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(Werder Brema-Amburgo 0-1. Trochowski)
WERDER BREMA: Weise, Fritz (40'st Prodl), Mertesacker, Naldo, Boenisc; Tziolis, Frings, Ozil, Diego; Pizarro, Hugo Almeida (16'st Rosenberg). A disp.: Mielitz, Tosic D., Baumann, Vranjes, Harnik. All.: Schaaf.
AMBURGO: Rost, Demel, Gravgaard, Mathijsen, Aogo (34'st Benjamin); Jarolim, Alex Silva (30'st Boateng), Pitroipa, Trochowski; Guerrero, Olic (46'st Torun). Click to continue reading...

Das war es also, das erste von vier Nord-Derbys. Ein würdiger Auftakt der 19-tätigen Hamburg-Bremen-Festspiele, wie ich finde. Ein Match, das zwar keinen hochklassigen Fußball, aber hochspannende Unterhaltung bot. Als HSV-Fan muss ich konstatieren, dass das spielerisch einfach zu wenig war, was die Rothosen vor heimischem Publikum präsentierten.

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Last-gasp goals, Bayern Munich thrashed, Champions League quarter-finals, international sackings and tension in the Championship all feature in this week's good, the bad and the ugly section of languagecaster's football podcast.

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On this week's show Damon and Damian take a look back at the highs and lows from 2008 for their respective clubs: Liverpool and Tottenham. We also: Review the football news in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Introduce a new football expression in English for Football And continue the predictions battle in the predictions competition For learners of [. Click to continue reading...

Was sich tagelang angedeutet hat, wurde heute von Uli Hoeneß bestätigt: Ivica Olic wird zur neuen Saison vom HSV nach München wechseln. Die Bayern setzen also ihre bewährte Taktik fort, die Leistungsträger potentieller Konkurrenten auf nationaler Ebene wegzukaufen. Ob Olic sich bei den Bayern wirklich durchsetzen wird, darf bezweifelt werden. Click to continue reading...

Helllllllooooooooooooooooo all you gooners. It's Friday, which is great news. So along the lines of great news, we have Emmanuel Adebayor, who loves bringing us, well, great news. He told The Sun that he has no plans of leaving and that he is here to win trophies.

"I've assured the gaffer Arsene Wenger I'll stay because I believe in the team and I want to assure the fans my concentration is here.

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There was much talk before the start of last season over whether Tottenham Hotspur could challenge the 'Big Four' of Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal. As it turned out, Spurs didn't even finish in the top half of the table, so that prediction was pretty wide of the mark (a bit like a Darren [. Click to continue reading...

When Juande Ramos left the sunny climes of Seville to take charge of a Tottenham side in dire need of an overhaul last October, many would have questioned his sanity levels, but few would have predicted the extent to which the Spaniard has managed to turn things around.
Following the whole debacle between the Spurs board and Martin Jol - where the Dutchman was infamously notified he'd be picking up his P45 after the 2-1 UEFA Cup defeat to Getafé via text message - Tottenham have finally steadied the ship and begun to produce the type of football which prompted many pundits before the start of the season to tip the north London club to finish in fourth position come May. Click to continue reading...