Ex-Blackburn Rovers boss Steve Kean has paid undisclosed damages to his predecessor, Sam Allardyce, over claims he made that the current West Ham boss was a "crook". Kean was filmed telling Rovers supporters on a pre-season tour of Hong Kong that Big Sam had lost his job at Ewood Park "because he's a f**king crook".
This is the third in a series where we take off our Fulham hats, put on music-blogging hats,
and suggest a band to check out this summer. Minor apologies if you think our selections
suck.
I'm going to keep this short and simple: go listen to the latest album from this Baltimore-based
group.
This is the third in a series where we take off our Fulham hats, put on music-blogging hats,
and suggest a band to check out this summer. Minor apologies if you think our selections
suck.
I'm going to keep this short and simple: go listen to the latest album from this Baltimore-based
group.
Arsenal legend Ian Wright believes that Arsene
Wenger should sign Jermaine Defoe from fierce rivals Tottenham
Hotspur as recently-departed striker Robin van Persie's replacement.
1. Members of the Manchester City Title Win Reenactment Society delivered a performance with the
sort of coordination that made the London 2012 opening ceremony look amateurish. Samir Nasri just
peaked a bit too soon. 2. With all the comparisons bring drawn between the Olympics and the Premier
League, it's hard to know why everyone [.
In January of this year Tottenham sat third in the table, and as the winter window opened, the
opportunity for the club to make a real statement of intent presented itself. Manager Harry
Redknapp was keen to strengthen the squad as consolidation at the top of the table was at the
forefront of his mind.
Newly appointed Chelsea boss Roberto Di Matteo has wasted no time in making it clear that his
team will be determined to build on the last season's laurels rather than resting on them.
Di Matteo guided the Blues to their first ever UEFA Champions League title only a fortnight
after helping them win the FA Cup against Liverpool at Wembley.
Brendan Rodgers insists that despite bringing a fresh approach to the Liverpool hot-seat in the
coming season, he will continue to draw inspiration from the legendary Kenny Dalglish.
Dalglish was relieved of his managerial duties at Anfield shortly after the conclusion of the
2011-12 campaign last month and the search for a new manager began immediately.
Dalglish had a difficult time at Liverpool this season
It has been announced in the last hour that Kenny Dalglish has been sacked as Liverpool FC
manager after just 18 months in charge. After taking over from Roy Hodgson in January 2011,
Dalglish initially steadied the ship at Anfield towards the end of the 2010-11 season but has found
it much more difficult in the 2011-12 season in which his club finished eighth in the English
Premier League although he did take the club to two domestic cup finals.
New footage showing Blackburn manager Steve Kean bad-mouthing his predecessor Sam Allardyce and
claiming Rovers would finish in the top-half of the table this season has emerged. The video,
reportedly filmed during last summer's pre-season trip to Hong Kong, was uploaded to YouTube
yesterday. We can only assume that whoever recorded wanted to give Kean [.
Gerard Houllier has said that no amount of cup success will quell the "obsession" with the league
title at Anfield -- but insisted that Kenny Dalglish needs at least another year to make a success
of his second tenure as Liverpool manager.
The Frenchman, Liverpool manager from 1998 to 2004, said there is "too much expectation" at
Anfield, but reflected also on the way that managers' reputations diminish too abruptly in
football.
Chelsea's caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo has revealed the secret to winning all three
matches since Andre Villas-Boas was sacked after just seven months in charge. The former assistant
under Villas-Boas has sparked new life in an aging side that was showing its age a few weeks ago,
resulting in wins in the FA Cup, Premier League and, most recently, a 4-1 extra-time win over
Napoli in the second leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie that allowed Chelsea to advance
on a 5-4 aggregate score.
In the space of a few minutes we saw the world of football hand down verdicts on a former
England captain clearing him of racism charges and then to one its most storied clubs, devastating
them with demotion to the lowest division for financial manipulation.
A brave, new world for the sport as it demanded accountability from its practitioners.
Ricardo Teixeira, the CBF president for 23 years and the man behind Brazil's 2014 World Cup bid
stepped down citing health concerns. It was a great day for football.
Romario, the former footballer and now elected official who campaigned on reforming football
reacted: "Today we can celebrate," Romario posted on his Twitter and Facebook pages.
In which, as spellcheck-decimating Russian second division sides Yenisey Krasnoyarsk and
Shinnik Yaroslavl line up to observe the national anthem before their game, an over eager cameraman
hurtles onto the pitch to capture the line-up, trips on the edge of the turf and promptly goes arse
over tit much to the amusement of several of the players.
Hot on the heels of 'Write The Future' (remember Rooney's beard?) comes Nike's
latest major tournament bells-and-whistles big-budget viral, 'My Time Is Now', starring the like of
Sneijder, Ribery, Van der Vaart, Ozil, Ronaldo, Neymar, Iniesta, Pique, Pato, Old Uncle Tom Cobley,
etc, etc, etc.
Sam Allardyce has begun legal action against Blackburn manager Steve Kean over comments made in a
YouTube video. The footage, brought to you by OTP earlier today, features Kean chatting to
Blackburn fans during a pre-season trip to Hong Kong last summer. He can be heard claiming
Allardyce, his predecessor at Ewood Park, was sacked [.
The Spanish club now in the second division knocked the Champions League winners out of the
competition pouring in 4 unanswered goals in the second leg to overcome a 4-1 first leg deficit.
Coruna found four separate goalscorers as Walter Pandiani, Juan Carlos Valeron, Albert Luque, and
Fran Gonzalez dismantled an excellent Milan side.
After scoring his first goal since August, Jack McInerney liked it so much he did it again 41
minutes later.
The goals set in motion Philadelphia Union's most impressive home win in the team's three-year
history, a stunning 4-0 demolition of Sporting Kansas City on Saturday.
At this time last week, positives were taken from a losing performance. The Union had played
well, just not well enough. Despite controlling the match against DC United, the visitors had
stolen a late goal, and three points, at PPL Park.
If you didn't like the Union's starting lineup Saturday, then you haven't been paying enough
attention.
John Hackworth's choice to start Jack McInerney for the suspended Lio Pajoy was a bold move that
signaled a sharp break with Hackworth's predecessor, Peter Nowak.
Every day in London, tourists flock to watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. From
the outside, the event creates a certain pomp and spectacle. Yet, for most guard shifts it
represents the only real event and the only complex series of actions the soldiers perform.
Let it be known that Ross Fletcher can roll with the punches as good as anyone. The new Seattle
Sounders announcer joined us on the show this week and stuck around for all three segments. It's a
little part getting-to-know-Ross and a much bigger part of just having him join in on the fun.
In addition to learning some basic biographical information about Ross (yeah, we're totally on a
first-name basis with him now), we get to know how he likes working with Kasey Keller and we help
goad him toward a wrestling match with his predecessor Arlo White.
As regular readers will know, I have long prattled on about goal difference as a good indicator
of things not being quite right. If a team is higher or lower in the league than their goal
difference suggests they should be then before too long they'll probably regress or progress to
their rightful place.
As regular readers will know, I have long prattled on about goal difference as a good indicator
of things not being quite right. If a team is higher or lower in the league than their goal
difference suggests they should be then before too long they'll probably regress or progress to
their rightful place.
Now that Andre Villas-Boas' brief and confrontational reign at Chelsea has been mercifully end,
giving way to the club's resurgence under caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo, all the little
details about how AVB and Chelsea just weren't a good fit for each other are coming out.
According to the London Evening Standard, some in the dressing room came up with a nickname for
Villas-Boas, who served as Jose Mourinho's opposition scouting video compiler in his first stint at
Chelsea.
A date with destiny for both Chelsea and Napoli, who will do battle at Stamford Bridge for a place
in the last 8 of the Champions League. In winter 1066 Harold Godwinson was thrust to the fore and
took the throne of Anglo-Saxon England after the death of his predecessor Edward the Confessor. His
reign was rather short lived and he died in the Battle of Hastings later that year – he earned
his.
(Yes, it's yet another Liverpool piece but hey, that's the way the footballing cookie crumbles
sometimes!)
Showing the kind of charm and people-skills which his predecessor Kenny Dalglish struggled to
master, Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has thanked the Reds' fans who followed their team to
Belarus for Thursday evening's Europa league clash with FC Gomel.
New York Red Bulls fans may be days away from seeing the team's latest Designated Player, Tim
Cahill, in action.
Though he won't be used against the Montreal Impact on Saturday, the former Everton star will
likely be debuting much in the same manner like his New York DP predecessor Thierry Henry did just
two years ago; in a friendly against Tottenham.
OTP gives you the lowdown on all the Euro 2012 teams. 10 word description: Defending champions,
World Cup winners and red / rojo hot favourites. Coach: Vicente Del Bosque Win the World Cup and
you're probably in a fairly strong position as an international coach. That's the situation in
which 61-year-old former Real Madrid boss [.
With the almost-inevitable shuttering of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), a vacancy exists in
the soccer landscape for a venue where the top talent in the this country and around the world can
ply its trade. The Women's Premier Soccer League has formed an Elite Division comprised of former
WPS teams and long-standing members of its amateur ranks, with the 2012 season scheduled to
kick-off next week.
The dizzying raft of exposes emanating from investigations into twenty-first century Rangers
(and a few years before, if ex-director Hugh Adam's revelations are at all credible) is truly now
doing my head in. Plymouth Argyle's pock-marked spell in administration last year produced enough
material for almost daily updates on this site.
