David Moyes and Jan Vertonghen have been named Manager and Player of the Month for March by the Barclays Premier League.
After managers and players are awarded the honors, they often experience a dip in form. Previous winners include managers Martin O'Neill and Brian McDermott, while footballers Steven Fletcher, Marouane Fellaini and Adam Le Fondre have picked up the players award.
It now seems clear that Robin van Persie has played his last game for Arsenal.
News that the Dutchman will not be involved in the club's pre-season tour of the Far East leaves
little room for doubt that he is on his way out of The Emirates.
It is being reported that Arsenal have turned down an offer from Manchester United and will only
entertain bids in excess of £20 million although, they are hoping to hold out for between £25 and
£30 million.
Player-Manager sideshows are interesting to say the least and it seems like Manchester City
manager Roberto Mancini has gotten himself involved in another spat with an unhappy player.
The dust from the Tevez debacle is yet to settle and already the Italian tactician is involved
in a war of words with defender Wayne Bridge.
The king of all ball boys is back making his final appearance #needed #for #timewasting Charlie Morgan™ (@CHARLIEM0RGAN) January 23, 2013 The ball boy involved in the incident that saw Chelsea star Eden Hazard sent-off in tonight's Capital One Cup semi-final had admitted in pre-game tweets that he planned to use timewasting tactics.
Despite only joining the club in a playing capacity from Chelsea five months ago, it would
appear that Nicolas Anelka has today been appointed as the player-coach of his Chinese side,
Shanghai Shenhua with scurrilous rumours abound that Jean Tigana had been sacked after a torrid
start to the season.
Despite only joining the club in a playing capacity from Chelsea five months ago, it would
appear that Nicolas Anelka has today been appointed as the player-coach of his Chinese side,
Shanghai Shenhua with scurrilous rumours abound that Jean Tigana had been sacked after a torrid
start to the season.
Chelsea appoint John Terry as player-manager as Terry promises 'no slipups' in Champions League
- originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Roman Abramovich Chelsea have appointed John Terry as player manager with immediate effect, with
the board highlighting his fantastic team talks and tactical input from the sidelines as the core
reasons for making this decision.
The next Chelsea manager should be ... John Terry - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Regardless of whether Chelsea beat Napoli tonight, and regardless of whether Chelsea qualify for
the Champions League or not this season, the signs are crystal clear. The next Chelsea manager must
either be extremely special (even Mourinho would be hard-pressed to fix the current Chelsea state,
and he's not coming), or it needs to be someone who commands widespread respect and authority
inside the club.
The next Chelsea manager should be ... John Terry - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Regardless of whether Chelsea beat Napoli tonight, and regardless of whether Chelsea qualify for
the Champions League or not this season, the signs are crystal clear. The next Chelsea manager must
either be extremely special (even Mourinho would be hard-pressed to fix the current Chelsea state,
and he's not coming), or it needs to be someone who commands widespread respect and authority
inside the club.
If you weren't aware that Edgar Davids has rejoined English football, your attention will certainly be drawn to it now. The former Holland international and current Barnet FC player-manager washappilychatting away on Goals on Sunday yesterday morning when he accidentally turned the air blue. Detailing his bemused response to recently finding himself on the bench [.
The gentle odour of fair play that has permeated the afternoon continues to
waft, with soul-affirming footage from the Northern Ireland Premiership game between Dungannon
Swifts and Ballymena United.
We join the action at 0-0 with Dungannon being awarded a penalty after Ballymena centre-back
Gavin Taggart catches the ball in the area mistakenly thinking he'd heard the whistle sound for
play to stop so his injured teammate, Chris Rodgers (who had dislocated a shoulder), could be
stretchered from the field.
- Happy Birthday to QPR Great, Les Allen, who Turns 75 Today
Various Photos from the Bushman QPR Photo Archives
- Photos from the Bushman QPR Photo Archives
- Video: Playing in QPR 1967's League Cup Final
QPR's Les Allen Turns Seventy-Five
Les Allen - Ex-QPR player and manager (and father of Clive and Bradley Allen and uncle of
martin Les Allen, Turned Seventy-Five : Born September 4, 1937.
Sky is reporting Chelsea's released defender Jose Bosingwa has joined
QPR - Sky Update: SKY - QPR
land Bosingwa - Former Chelsea defender joins Loftus Road outfit
Sky Sports sources understand that Queens Park Rangers have signed former Chelsea defender Jose
Bosingwa.
Are either of you a "fox in the box"?TORONTO VS. COLORADO BMO FIELD - WEDNESDAY 7PM ET TV: SPORTSNET ONTARIO/ONE ----RADIO: THE FAN 590
THE KICKABOUT:
It's entirely up to you whether you choose to blame the current management team, the previous one
or whatever Pagans used to sacrifice virgins on the site of BMO Field.
Today Colorado made it official and hired Oscar Pareja as the team's 7th head coach. The Rapids say
6th but I like to count Roy Wegerle's 1 game as player/manager at the end of the 1996 season. ;)
There's been no details as to the amount or length of his contract other than "long" according to
Tim Hinchey at the press conference.
With the 2012 European Championship in full swing and the New England Revolution charging
headlong into the balmy doldrums of MLS's midsummer stretch, I thought it might be topical and
interesting to take a quick look at the current and former Revolution stars who have participated
in the Euros over the years.
More fair play fun for you, this time from Northern Ireland. Dungannon Swifts player boss Darren
Murphy chose to deliberately miss a penalty after a bizarre fair play mix-up. Swifts were awarded
the spot-kick after Ballymena defender Gavin Taggart caught the ball in the penalty area,
mistakenly believing that play had been stopped so that [.
Soccer is and always will be one of the most participated sports in the world. You have fans
from all corners of the globe supporting different clubs and national teams and it doesn't matter
what color your skin is, what culture you believe in or what language you speak, people can always
talk to each other in a universal language which is soccer.
This article titled "Euro 2012: Why Zlatan had every right to be angry with Sweden team-mates"
was written by Marcus Christenson, for guardian.co.uk on Tuesday 12th June 2012 10.56 UTC
While the rest of the world were enjoying the rebirth of Andriy Shevchenko, Sweden were left to
pick up the pieces of a hugely demoralising defeat.
It's a difficult choice. Are Italian boss Giovanni Trapattoni's "well-drilled" Ireland team more
difficult to beat, or to watch? Such is the quality of Ireland's Group C opponents in Euro 2012 –
numbers one, four and nine in the last FIFA world rankings I saw – that ‘Trap's' team could be
difficult to watch in a "hide behind the sofa" manner rather than because of their reliance on
Keith Andrews and Glenn Whelan for central-midfield creativity.
The Reds had another season to forget. - 37 points behind the title winners, Manchester City -
Racism rows which divided opinions between player, manager and owners - A totally unnecessary siege
mentality - Finishing behind cross-town rivals, Everton - Losing pathetically in the FA Cup Final -
Having a dismal home record at what used to be "fortress" Anfield - Not gaining maximum points
against the eventual bottom six in the Premiership table
And yet, Liverpool amidst a trying season, won the Carling Cup, making Suarez, Carroll and
Henderson first time winners of an English club football competition.
Despite his regal status and winning the Carling Cup, Liverpool have sacked Kenny Dalglish,
whose second stint as manager of the club lasted less than two years. Now faced with the daunting
task of finding a manager to return the club to past glory, Liverpool owner John W. Henry must sift
through the candidates to find the best one.
Kenny Dalglish was a world class player when he played for Celtic and Liverpool. Kenny Dalgish only
7th in the league table And there cannot be too many Scottish players that were better than Kenny,
and when he was player manager at Liverpool and manager of Blackburn, he was also a very good
manager.
Lionel Richie? I was going for Craig Johnston meets Bruce Grobbelaar...
This hasn't been the best of periods for Liverpool FC, certainly in terms of PR. With the club
tying itself in all kinds of knots over the Luis Suarez affair, and then Anfield legend Alan Hansen
getting lambasted for his out-dated use of the word "coloured", it's been a heck a few weeks for
the club.
Events in Shanghai have taken a dramatic turn in the last week and suddenly a season of promise
is teetering on the edge of complete chaos following a dressing room mutiny that ousted Joan Tigana
from the Shenhua bench and put in its place, the team's star player, Nicolas Anelka.
With underwhelming results on the pitch and discord between the players and Andre
Villas-Boas in the dressing room, Roman Abramovich must once again decide whether to keep his
current manager or sack him and try another one. This, is the Roman Abramovich Game. This week's
contestant: Roman Abramovich.
Shambles in Shanghai: Tigana, Tantrums and Anelka as manager is a post from: Just Football
by Andrew Crawford
The Chinese Super League (CSL) is once again watching its most noisy tenant,
Shanghai Shenhua, soak up all the attention. Its big name manager, Jean
Tigana is gone, replaced, or rather deposed, in headline-grabbing style by Nicolas
Anelka, who will now try to rescue the club from its plunge into the bottom half of the
league.
Chinese football has been the graveyard of choice for ageing players' careers in recent years,
with former greats moving out to the East for one final pay cheque just see Nicky Butt, Paul
Gascoigne or even Marlon Harewood for further details.
Founded: 1913 Stadium: Ullevaal Stadion (national stadium), capacity 25,572 Colours: They played in green for their first year until Norwegian State Railways
sold them their blue and red kit cheaply. Honours: Norwegian Premier League 5 (1965, 1981, 1983, 1984, 2005).
So another Italian has abandoned a sinking ship......But seriously there is but one choice for the
job, it simply has to be John Terry as player manager........
Two matches in the Blue Square Premier brought together four clubs from directly opposite ends
of the football spectrum yesterday and, while the results of those matches were hardly unexpected,
it was difficult not to feel at the end of this week that these were not as important as the fact
that the matches had taken place in the first place.
If there's one thing aside from love spoons that Wales is known for, it's probably the
persistent rain. We've had a Sunday of untold downpours, to the extent where the game between Neath
and Port Talbot had to be called off due to a waterlogged pitch. However, their more resilient
rivals managed to brave the liquid bombardment and put a team out to face Prestatyn Town.
