December 30th 2011
Last January, I selected a team of emerging players to watch out for during 2011 with my Upcoming XI. As the year draws to a close and the Upcoming XI 2012 Edition fast approaches, it’s time to consider how accurate my predictions were, and what the players will be expecting from 2012. Upcoming XI Review [...]
December 9th 2011
Andy Carroll has been on the wrong end of mockery from football fans since joining Liverpool due to his party lifestyle and apparent inability to score goals. However this week, Carroll-hating fans’ attentions have been distracted from his actual ability due to the emergence of brilliant clip from FIFA12 with Carroll showing his brand new [...]
December 2nd 2011
After Friday’s insufferable build up to the Euro 2012 group draw – featuring a dreadful Eurovision-esque performance by Ukrainian ‘singer’ Jamala, the introduction of the Official Euro 2012 Ball, and a touching tribute to Gary Speed – it was eventually revealed that England will play against Ukraine, France and Sweden in Group D in Polkraine [...]
November 25th 2011
<iframe src=”http://www.awin1.com/cawshow.php?s=128356&v=317&q=82463&r=118902&iframe=1&target=blank” width=468 height=60 frameborder=0 border=0 scrolling=no marginheight=0 marginwidth=0></iframe>With the news that Goal Line Technology might finally be used in the Premier League for the 2012/13 season, certain refereeing clangers might just become a thing of the past. I’ve been studying the history books to find examples of where the use of goal-line technology would’ve [...]
November 18th 2011
Times are changing in the England National setup with the ‘golden generation’ fading into the background. As SOTB Chief Writer Oliver Jay found after witnessing a promising performance against the Spanish World Champions, it’s time to focus on giving our youth a chance as we slowly build up to Brazil 2014. So this week, I [...]
November 4th 2011
Mario Balotelli, love him or hate him, is a brilliant person to have playing in the Premier League. At the age of 21, Mario’s already had more than his fair share of hilarious on and off-pitch incidents. So this week, I’ve compiled a full squad’s worth of Balotelli incidents, some outrageous, some dangerous, almost all [...]
October 28th 2011
Allegations of racism have been all over the back-pages over the last few weeks with two moronic footballers being accused of racially abusing fellow players whilst running around a football pitch surrounded by dozens of cameras. It remains to be seen whether either John Terry or Luis Suarez (neither of whom have a particularly clean [...]
October 7th 2011
The worrying news of an horrific injury to young Accrington Stanley defender Tom Bender on Tuesday night sent shockwaves around the footballing community, prompting thousands of people, including gooner Jack Wilshere and fox-trotting blondie Robbie Savage, to wish him the best of luck with his recovery. Thankfully it appears that Bender has been given the [...]
September 30th 2011
Carlos Tevez’s supposed refusal to warm-up whilst as a substitute during Man City’s Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich was the highlight of a miserable week for English clubs in the Champions League. With fans across the country keen to jump on any sign of disharmony at a club full of inflated egomaniacs who had [...]
September 23rd 2011
My fellow Spaniard Fernando Torres must’ve been over the moon on Sunday when he finally scored his second goal for Chelsea since joining in January. Surely this is the spark he needs? Scoring a great goal in a match versus the Premier League Champions, all the crowd abuse and ‘What a waste of money’ chants [...]
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