The unlikely reconciliation

This “contract” thing
It was intriguing to watch Gareth Barry return to first team duties for Aston Villa this weekend given the seemingly burnt bridges that existed between the two parties.  Barry made a determination to leave when he heard that Liverpool were interested and openly critcised manager Matin O’Neill in the media.
This led to a [...]

Kaizer Chiefs v Man United

How hard can it be?  At least Michael Carrick might look useful.

The Gareth Barry Mess

The red tops have been ensuring that they have had something to write about this summer by updating us daily on the Rafalution.  Incase you fell asleep, here it is in a nutshell.
Rafa winks at Gareth.
Martin tells them to pay £18m.
Rafa [...]

All for one…

What price loyalty?
What’s going on?  Lampard wants to walk out on Chelsea, Ronaldo feels Man United owe him after he won every title for them single-handedly, Robbie Keane has decided to go back on his desire to “finish his career with Spurs” and Emmanuel Adebayor – after a good half season – reckons he’s the [...]

Tottenham Transfer Window Round Up

As explained in the “about” page, I’m a Tottenham fan so occasionally there will be a “Tottenham-focus”.  Like right now.  Let’s take a peek at the top ten rumours surrounding players coming-and-going from White Hart Lane.
Heading for the exit?
Younes Kaboul (to Portsmouth, £6m)
Kaboul became the fall guy last season – and with good reason.  Some [...]

A penalty shoot-out alternative

I’d like a pee please, Carol
Big-thighed, thick footballers.  Self-serving thugs.  Sitting in McDonalds at 4am after a tray of pints before heading out to the streets and beating someone senseless.  Roasting young ladies.  Spending £30k upgrading to the latest BMW X5 because the reduced diameter of the side-mirror gives you an extra 2km/h at high [...]

Barry gets day off

Nice work if you can get it
If I slagged off my boss in the media I’d probably get little understanding – maybe even the bullet.  What does Gareth Barry get?  A day off!
The versatile mid-table defender-cum-midfielder has been told to stay away from the training ground and fined an obscene amount of money for criticizing [...]

Magpies discuss Barton future

Man U News
In other news, the transfer merry-go-round continues.  Man U think they might fancy a bit of Colombian striker Falcao for £15m rather than shell out £30m for proven Premiership player Dimitar Berbatov.  Clearly the Diego Forlan fiasco didn’t dent Sir Fergie’s faith in South American strikers.
Perhaps more worryingly for Fergie is the news [...]

Back to crazy pre-season transfer nonsense

Not that Keane
I’ve never been a big fan of Rafa Benitez.  He’s your typical big-four manager: always moaning, blames referees for bad results and a bit of a spoofer.  The patchiness of his transfer record is up there with the best of them but while Wenger and Ferguson can point to huge success in spite [...]