The Guardian is reporting that Malaga winger, Santi Cazorla will be the next transfer arriving
at the Emirates for a reported £16m. Malaga is in serious financial trouble unless the Qatari
businessman, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Al-Thani, bankrolling them does not come up with a last
minute cash infusion.
"Realistically, we are out of the competition." Arsene Wenger.
Arsene Wenger described last night's 4-0 defeat as both "shocking" and the team's worst-ever
performance in Europe, by far. One might wonder why Arsene finally chose to throw the whole team
under the proverbial bus. Despite an inconsistent season that has fluctuated somewhere on the
spectrum between mediocre and truly phenomenal, Arsene has remained resolutely confident that his
team would inevitably surge, maximizing its intrinsic potential.
A pants display from City Manchester City's Champions League campaign is teetering on the edge of
disaster after last night's 2-1 defeat to Napoli. But the loss was not the biggest embarrassment of
the night. No, that honour was reserved for sub Samir Nasri, who displayed some very interesting
boxer shorts before joining the action.
The head coach for the Rapids All-Time Team is Gary Smith. How Joined: Hired as a liaison for the Arsenal Academy. Years In Colorado: 2008 through present
There have been 6 total head coaches in Colorado's history, but there were only two under
consideration for this spot, Glenn 'Mooch' Myernick and Gary Smith.
Ah. Didn't see that one coming at all. Batter a team and lose to a late goal? How typically
Tottenham.
Now that I've had a day to stew over it, the effect's of yesterday's cruel defeat to Stoke are now
in plain sight. We hammered them for 80 odd minutes and achieved absolutely nothing. And one
defensive slip cost us.
Everton: a model for success teetering on the edge. by Phil Gregory Very easy to stick the knife in
here, but I'm not going to jump on that bandwagon just yet. We all know Moyes has done a fantastic
job with them over the years, but can we really see them breaking the top four as they [...]
Everton: a model for success teetering on the edge. by Phil Gregory Very easy to stick the knife in
here, but I'm not going to jump on that bandwagon just yet. We all know Moyes has done a fantastic
job with them over the years, but can we really see them breaking the top four as they [...]
The full time whistle had barely sounded when Shanghai Shenhua's goalkeeper, Wang Dalei turned
to the home fans behind him with a face of unchecked elation. Overwhelmed with relief, stalward Yu
Tao fell to the ground and remained there for several minutes.
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.
Wow, someone is going to get fired over this. When you are Chelsea, sitting in 5th in the tables,
just teetering on the edge of not going to Europe next year, you don't lose to WBA. Guess no one
told Villa Boras that. WBA wins at home, 1-0.Video: Fox Sports
Morning all. Throughout January Soccerlens are going to be bringing you a daily
round-up of the morning's various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or
real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we'll have it covered.
Yet more managers teetering on the edge Blackpool Blackpool have far exceeded expectations, this
much is clear, and wins away at Wigan, Newcastle and Liverpool have provided the Tangerine Army
with much to cheer. Reality has now set in, however, and a winter of discontent looks apparent. The
cracks are even starting to show at [.
Yet more managers teetering on the edge Blackpool Blackpool have far exceeded expectations, this
much is clear, and wins away at Wigan, Newcastle and Liverpool have provided the Tangerine Army
with much to cheer. Reality has now set in, however, and a winter of discontent looks apparent. The
cracks are even starting to show at [.
With yet another exciting Premier League weekend in the books it's time to review this weekend's
winners and losers.
Winners Robbie Keane
Robbie Keane emerges from this weekend as the biggest winner. The Tottenham striker has had a
relatively quiet start to the season, oftentimes playing second fiddle to the red hot Jermain
Defoe.
Columbus defeated the Galaxy on Saturday 2-0 thanks to a good bit of strategy and some nice play
from some unusual suspects. Â The Crew were missing 5 regulars and yet they still came away with a
victory.
Before you harp on me for being a United fan that hopes Manchester City does well, hear me out.
The English Premier League is enjoying its most dominant spell in Europe at the moment. With three
of the four Champions League semifinalists hailing from the land of fish and chips and Ali G,
English clubs are the most revered and powerful clubs in the continent and in the world.
All season long the relegation battle has made pundits around the world look foolish. With no
true contenders in sight - or maybe far too many contenders - the relegation battle has been
anyone's guess. On the Premiership Talk Podcast, Taylor and I have thrown many guesses out there,
and in an interview Football Corner's Cathal Breathnach even suggested Portsmouth could be facing
the drop.
Following Liverpool's 4-0 victory over Blackburn, Rafa Benitez couldn't contain his obsession
with Manchester United. As he has done so often this season, Rafa had something to say about
United.
Like all of the other times, Benitez today said that the "pressure is on United." I'm not sure
about you, but I'm convinced that the Spaniard is obsessed with Manchester United.
For much of the last decade, British football has been teetering on the edge of a precipice. In
an era during which the game should have been reaping the rewards of unprecedented amounts of money
flowing through the game, we have seen over half of the clubs of the Football League forced into
some sort of insolvency event and numerous non-league clubs lose their grounds or cease to
exist.
Hat tricks in football are quite special. Already this season we've been treated with three hat
tricks of the highest quality, ironically enough all coming in convincing 6-0 wins. Didier Drogba
got the hat trick ball rolling on opening day as he scored his third ever Premiership hat trick,
and this past weekend fans saw Arsenal's Theo Walcott and Newcastle's Andy Carroll both grab hat
tricks.
The Portland Timbers just didn't do enough with their many chances on Friday in their 2-0
bruising by the thuggish Houston Dynamo. Kenny Cooper's gotta get more on that header, Jorge
Perlaza's gotta take that shot, Jack Jewsbury and Lovel Palmer gotta keep their shots down, and
Darlington Nagbe's gotta stop hesitating in front of goal.
Colorado faces Isidro Metapan tonight in El Salavador at 8pm MDT. The game is delayed until 10:30pm
on FOX Soccer Channel but can be watched live on the CONCACAF Champions League site. The supporters
groups are gathering at the British Bulldog for this one, presumably to watch the live stream on
big screens.
Colorado Rapids - With 1 point over the last two weeks the Rapids have fallen back to the pack.
They are 3rd in the West and 5th overall, 6 points behind Chivas USA. They have played more road
games than any other team, and only New England joins Colorado with only 1 home game so far. The
Rapids are tied with Toronto, Seattle, and San Jose for 4th in goals scored and tied with Chicago
and KC for 9th in goals allowed.
Not that anybody (except the Daily Mirror) ever thought he would for a split-second, but
Cristiano Ronaldo himself has put the kibosh on rumours that he may be teetering on the edge of an
exorbitant £150 million move to Manchester City, telling a Spanish radio station that 'money isn't
the most important thing' to him no, hairgel is.
When the Abu Dhabi United Group bought Manchester City at the beginning of this season, both
myself and football fanatics around the world sensed a new beginning for the blue side of
Manchester. Names like Kaka and David Villa were all rumored to be heading to the City of
Manchester Stadium, and even when the signing of Robinho was clinched I genuinely believed that the
club would at least comfortably wrap up a UEFA Cup spot.
With the MLS standings the way they are, the races for playoff positioning and the league's 10
postseason berths figure to down to the wire. Instead of past seasons, though, when head-to-head
records were used as a tiebreaker, this year's potential standings ties will be determined by the
most prolific attacks.
Sorry, I'm clumsy Ex-Liverpool left-back John Arne Riise felt compelled to apologise to Roma fans
after gifting Shakhtar Donetsk a goal by falling over for no apparent reason. The Norwegian's
strange collapse allowed Shakhtar to score their third goal in a 2-3 victory that leaves Roma
teetering on the edge of Champions League elimination.
Debt is evil. Glazers brought debt to United. Therefore, Glazers are evil.
United may not have the best marketing (Madrid, Barcelona and Arsenal trump everyone in that
department) but they sure as hell have the best money-men in the world. Where else do you find a
club that is, on one hand, supposedly teetering on the edge of annihilation under the burden of
unsurmountable debt (or so the more aggressive anti-Glazer campaigners would have you believe), and
on the other hand is coming off its most successful era in it's history (3 consecutive league
titles + 2 consecutive Champions League final appearances) and has been, for six years in a row,
been counted as the most valuable football club in the world.
Wednesday night Toronto FC reached the halfway mark of MLS 2009 as they played the 15th game of a
30 game season. Toronto 2- NYRB 0 was the final score as Toronto put on a smooth show on a hot
night by the lake. There was no doubt that TFC were the same guys who looked awesome in Montreal
last week. They were strong with the ball, solid in the back and able to make scoring chances out
of the smallest opening.
That's what it's all about. When Roy Hodgson built this team he must have had days like today
in mind. The team clicked perfectly, and outplayed a good Villa side from first to last.Â
Fantastic, just fantastic.
Fulham started well, attacking in a blur of short passing triangles that tied the Villa defence
in knots.
