Articles tagged with "epl"
The Offside Podcast, Episode 10
By Daryl | February 13th, 2008The Offside Podcast reaches double digits this week with the 10th episode. Topics this week include the end of the Africa Cup of Nations, the beginning ...
Premier League's 39th Game Gets the Middle Finger
By Daryl | February 13th, 2008Not sure what reaction the Premier League expected from potential venues for its cashgrab "international round", but I'm guessing a collective middle finger wasn't part ...
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League This Weekend
By Daryl | February 11th, 20081. Standards have dropped There's been a lot of praise heaped on Man City fans for respecting the minute's silence before the Manchester derby, in memory ...
OT... NEWS FROM ANOTHER BLOG
By nicholas | February 9th, 2008Recently the big wigs from the premiership announced that they are in discussions to introduce the idea of an international round of matches to there ...
If the BPL Was Being Attacked by Zombies...
By CSD | February 9th, 2008It's been sort of a slow news week at Anfield with nothing new on Mascherano and nothing but injuries to talk about. Instead, let's ...
The End of the Premier League as We Know It?
By Daryl | February 7th, 2008I double checked, and it's not April 1st. So this news is real. The 20 Premier League clubs have voted to approve extending the Premier ...
Weekend Watch Recap: Smart Move
By Daryl | February 4th, 2008Saturday Portsmouth vs Chelsea Nicolas Anelka got his first Premier League goal for Chelsea after Joe Cole's light as a feather knock down gave the Frenchman an ...
Transer Window Winners and Losers in the Premier League, Pt. 2
By Daryl | February 1st, 2008We continue our Premier League January transfer window roundup by naming the winners and shaming the losers. Part One is here, Part Two is below, ...
Transer Window Winners and Losers in the Premier League, Pt. 1
By Daryl | February 1st, 2008SLAM! The January transfer window is officially shut. Nothing gets in or out until June 1st now. So time to take stock and see which ...
The Offside Fantasy Leauge: The Worst of the Worst
By Daryl | January 25th, 2008We're up to Gameweek 23 of The Offside Fantasy League (note the fancy new url) now, so it's time to name and shame a few ...
Wenger to See if Someone Else Can Fix Theo Walcott
By Daryl | January 25th, 2008Remember 2006? Theo Walcott probably does. He was the toast of England after being signed by Arsenal as a teenager and then named him to ...
Premier League Clubs Break January Transfer Record and Head for £100m
By Daryl | January 23rd, 2008You might think the 2008 January transfer window has been a bit quiet, with only Nicolas Anelka's £15m move up the social ladder to Chelsea ...
Weekend Watch Recap: Kunstoppable
By Daryl | January 14th, 2008Catching up on all the matches from our Weekend Watch, where El Kun was on the scoresheet again... Saturday: Feyenoord Rotterdam 0-1 PSV Eindhoven: PSV and Feyenoord ...
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League: Mirror Image
By Daryl | January 14th, 2008Manchester United and Arsenal switched places at the top of the Premiership again, with Chelsea and the new and improved, smiles and sunshine version of ...
Match Report: Chelsea 2, Tottenham 0
By Jack | January 13th, 2008The occasion centered on a certain Frenchman. However, it was an often overlooked Brazilian that proved the difference. Chelsea continued their charge toward a third ...
The Offside Fantasy League: Ghana... Ghana... Gone!
By Daryl | January 11th, 2008The African Cup of Nations is coming (you may have heard Harry Redknapp mention it once or twice) and Premier League managers are bidding temporary ...
Dave Kitson Swears Off the F.A. Cup
By Daryl | January 4th, 2008Every January the Premier League teams half-heartedly enter the FA Cup and we all ask the same old, same old question: Has the FA Cup ...
Festive Football in the Premier League: Yay or Nay?
By Daryl | January 3rd, 2008The English Premier League festive football period finished yesterday, and I still can't decide whether it's a good idea or not. On one hand there ...
The Offside Fantasy League: This is How We Stand
By Daryl | January 3rd, 2008After a busy festive period where Premier League teams played about three seasons in one week, The Offside Fantasy League finally takes a break this ...
Boring, Boring Arsenal?
By Daryl | January 2nd, 2008For the second game in a row yesterday, Arsenal scored from a long ball. Now I'm not suggesting Arsene Wenger has thrown out his big ...
The Return of the Prawn Sandwich Brigade
By Daryl | January 2nd, 2008You might think Sir Alex Ferguson would be happy his team bounced back from defeat at West Ham to beat Birmingham City 1-0 at Old ...
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League: Goals Galore
By Daryl | December 31st, 2007Quite a weekend in the Premiership, with last week's Chelsea 4-4 Aston Villa made to look like a snoozefest by Tottenham's ten goal encounter with ...
Everpool FC: The Merseyside All Star XI of 2007
By Daryl | December 28th, 2007David Prentice of the Liverpool Echo has picked his now traditional end of year Merseyside XI, forming the strongest team possible from Liverpool and Everton ...
Allardyce is Stuck With the Players He's Got (Because He Signed Them)
By Daryl | December 27th, 2007Things are looking bad for Sam Allardyce after his Newcastle team lost 1-0 to Wigan yesterday. It was supposed to be the perfect marriage, up ...
The Real Andriy Shevchenko Stands Up (Finally)
By Daryl | December 26th, 2007Chelsea fans (and Russian billionaires) finally got to see the real Andriy Shevchenko at Stamford Bridge today. In an absolute belter that finished Chelsea 4-4 ...
The Offside Fantasy League: No Winter Break for You
By Daryl | December 24th, 2007While other European leagues luxuriate in the winter break, the English Premier League will be putting on its biggest gloves and braving the cold. Those ...
Manuel Almunia Foils Spurs, and Jens Lehmann
By Daryl | December 22nd, 2007The weekend's salivation worthy trio of derbies got going today, with Arsenal beating Spurs 2-1. Unhappy as Spurs fans may be (seems they just can't ...
Arsenal Players Give Up a Day's Wages for Charity. And the WAGs Weep.
By Laurie | December 16th, 2007Somewhere out there, the Arsenal WAGs are weeping. The entire Arsenal team -- players, staff, even cleaning people -- have offered up their salaries ...
The Offside Fantasy League: Who Needs Fabio Capello Anyway?
By Daryl | December 14th, 2007The English FA have just started paying Fabio Capello something like £6 million a year to pick the England team. But why pay anyone at ...
David Wheater: Please Come and Watch Me Play for Middlesbrough
By Daryl | December 13th, 2007Middlesbrough have had trouble putting bums on seats at the Riverside this season. Maybe because they play the sort of football that makes your eyes ...
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