Barca: The Making Of The Greatest Team In The World is a new book by Graham Hunter which chronicles the footballing revolution that has taken place at the Catalan giants. This exclusive extract reveals how Jose Mourinho nearly took the reigns before Pep Guardiola… In early 2008 with Frank Rijkaard’s position as coach of Barcelona [...]
New English Premier League champions, Manchester City, are ready to swoop for Robin van Persie. The Arsenal skipper, will tomorrow hold showdown talks with Gunners Manager, Arsene Wenger, over his future. The Dutch striker, 28, is entering the final year of his £80,000-a-week contract and new champs, City, are preparing an opening offer of £20million. [...]
Barcelona director of football Andoni Zubizarreta has denied claims by Joan Laporta the club could have done more to ensure Pep Guardiola continued as coach. Guardiola decided to end his four-year spell in charge after being eliminated by Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals, with his assistant Tito Vilanova named as the new coach for [...]
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admits securing third place in the Premier League was probably his most satisfying achievement. The Gunners finally made sure of qualification for the group stages of the Champions League for a 15th season when they beat West Brom 3-2 in a tense final day at The Hawthorns to edge ahead of [...]
Chelsea FC this evening blew away any scintilla of hope that they could still manage being in the race for a Champions league slot, when they fell 1-4 to Liverpool at Anfield. The team that denied Liverpool the FA cup last Saturday, was not the same team that met Liverpool today, with the coach making [...]
For the second year in succession, the FA Cup finalists meet again in an English Premier League tie just three days after clashing at Wembley. Last year, Manchester City rubbed salt in Stoke’s wounds by beating the Potters 3-0 in a Premier League fixture, having lifted the cup, thanks to Yaya Toure’s strike the previous [...]
Roberto Di Matteo has admitted that having to contest a Premier League game with Newcastle United only three days before the FA Cup final is “not ideal” but said he will not field a weakened side against Alan Pardew’s team in order to preserve key players for the match against Liverpool at Wembley on Saturday. [...]
