Its time for Our El Classico, Our Eternal Derby

Biggest game of this weekend, by quite some distance is the biggest game of the season. Make no mistake, when Man United play Liverpool, the ...

EPL Ramblings - Talking Rubbish And Transfer Gossip

Another round of ramblings here at the EPL Offside. My promise to keep this as regular as a fibre lover's bathroom goings was ultimately fruitless, ...

Serie A: Falling Behind?

Here are your Champions League quarter-finalist teams, by nationality: England: 4 (Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool) Spain: 2 (Barcelona, Villarreal) Portugal: 1 (FC Porto) Germany: 1 (Bayern Munich) Which means ...

Bouncing back: my preview for Aston Villa Blog

Over at The Offside, where I took over from Martin a few months back, I’ve somehow managed to prepare a match preview for every game ...

Match Preview: Manchester City v Aston Villa

Manchester City v Aston Villa Premier League City Of Manchester Stadium Wednesday 4th March 2009, 7.45pm For this game, your old pal Martin Banks and I have done a ...

VILLA 2-2 Stoke City: Bugger...

Match Preview: Aston Villa v Stoke City

Aston Villa v Stoke City Premier League Villa Park Sunday 1st March 2009, 3.00pm Pic: Yardflex Given the moaning of a section of Villa supporters - even booing Martin O'Neill ...

Club Crests Crisis Update, or: Gordon Gekko's Premier League

As you may already know, we were recently contacted by Net Result - the English Premier League's legal attack dog - and told to ...

Champions League is Back! Tuesday Preview

So with pretty much all three big domestic leagues already sorted out - Barcelona will have to do something spectacular not to win the league ...

Weekend Dose 02.22.09

Some news to read as we take a look at this gentle, dainty, delicate Up Yours to everybody who says that Nicolas Anelka can't score ...

VILLA 0-1 Chelsea: unbeaten run ends, but fight for fourth remains intact

I'm not going to go into too much detail about yesterday's game because I seem to have watched it through some kind of wormhole, if ...

Match Preview: Aston Villa v Chelsea

Aston Villa v Chelsea Premier League Villa Park Saturday 21st February 2009, 12.45pm Pic: Topnews In Premier League football, matches don't come any bigger than this. With Manchester United turning ...

Offside Rewind: This is Who I Play For

Here are seven stories you might have missed on The Offside this week: The Premier League are after us Liquid medicine endangers Canadians Which teams have all the ...

Premier League's Lawyers Come After The Offside

We received a threat from the Evil Galactic Empire's Premier League's legal people yesterday, demanding that we stop using all English Premier League club crests ...

Will Anyone Have The Balls To Take Job At Chelsea?

I'm not going to rehash over the details of Scolari being sacked. We all know why, pretty much, and Rob has covered it fucking brilliantly ...

Is a quintuple possible?

Sir Alex Ferguson, who memorably guided Manchester United to the Treble in 1999, thinks not. Although his Manchester United side sit top of the Prem, ...

Match Preview: Blackburn Rovers v Aston Villa

Blackburn Rovers v Aston Villa Premier League Ewood Park Saturday 7th February 2009, 3.00pm Pic: Sky Sports Aston Villa's fight for fourth seems to be almost exclusively fought away from ...

EPL Ramblings & Transfer Round-Up

So it's finally over. The end of some of the most exciting, albeit slightly fictitious reporting on Sky Sports. Finally, Arsenal confirmed the signing of Andrei ...

ASTON "Lucky" VILLA 0-0 Wigan: 12-man Wigan get a point

Today could have been much worse if I'm being honest. Aston Villa lacked a cutting edge up front and Wigan Athletic could easily have nicked ...

EPL Ramblings & Transfer Gossip

Howdy, this is my third installment of EPL Ramblings & Transfer Gossip here on the EPL Offside. Given that it's the third installment it's looking ...

Match Preview: Portsmouth v Aston Villa

Portsmouth v Aston Villa Premier League Fratton Park Tuesday 27th January 2009, 8.00pm Pic: Sky Sports After a draw at the Keepmoat, Villa visit Fratton Park to face another team ...

EPL Ramblings & Transfer Gossip

Strange night, last night. Was up 'til all hours and it was then that I saw the Robinho story break. Seeing it on most football ...

BREAKING NEWS: Robinho Walks Out Of City Training Camp!

City missed out on one Brazilian today, are they about to lose another? According to the Daily Mail, Robinho has walked out on Manchester City's ...

Rafa's Reds Come Unstuck Against Toffees....

After what must have been a heartbreaking weekend for Liverpool, even before tonight's game, things have got a whole lot worse for Rafa's Reds! Heading ...

Photo of the Day: Frank F**king Lampard

Steven who?

Gallery: Chelsea 2, Stoke 1

Match Preview: Sunderland v Aston Villa

Sunderland v Aston Villa Premier League Stadium of Light Sunday 17th January 2009, 3.00pm Pic: SAFC.com Aston Villa continue their quest for Champions League qualification with a very tricky away ...

EPL Ramblings & Transfer Gossip

Today I'm just gonna have a quick look at some of the transfer gossip on the net that surfaces every day. Lots of it is ...

Wayne and Rob's EPL Team of the Week

First of all, I'd like to say I'm delighted to be back blogging after a fairly shitty start to the Christmas period. Although I'm pretty ...

So - Who's the Title Favourite Now?

So, after Chelsea were absolutely demolished by Manchester United this afternoon, the question has got to arise, who do you think, now will take the ...