Jack Wilshere Risks Suspension After Olympiakos Betting Accusation
Injured Gunner Jack Wilshere might be facing a tough suspension if UEFA will find him guilty of placing a bet on the club’s match against Olympiakos in the Champions League group stage. The English midfielder posted a weird statement on his Twitter a…
UEFA Set to investigate Wilshere Bet
Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere is set to be investigated by UEFA after the 19 year-old placed a bet on team-mate Emmanuel Frimpong to score against Olympiakos on Tuesday night (6/12/2011). The Young Gun did not participate in the 3-1 defeat due t…
Match Preview: Arsenal v Olympiakos; Champion’s League Match Day 6
Well this is nice isn’t it? If you had told me before the start of the season that Arsenal who had to go through Udinese just to get into the group stages would be the only English team through to the knockout stages at this point, I would’ve told you,…
Handshakes, money and the UEFA way
When you use a search engine on the world wide web and type in ‘soccer hooligans’ unsurprisingly the sites that instantly pop up are the ones dealing with the British aspect, referring to hooliganism as ‘The English Disease’.
Gazidis is eager for UEFA’s financial fair play rule
Arsenal’s chief executive Ivan Gazidis thinks that the financial fair play law that UEFA is going to impose in football will be a great rule because it will attract more potential owners towards the Premier League. Gazidis fears that powerful owners …
Arsenal Vs Brussia Dortmund Preview Plus Probable Line-Up
Victory against last season’s German Champions Brussia Dortmund will secure us qualification to the next round of this season’s champions league. With our current form in the domestic league, This game should be a must-win for us if we want…
Match Preview: Arsenal v Olympique de Marseille; Champion’s League Match Day 4
“Ten points would guarantee our qualification but it would not guarantee first place [in the group],” Wenger said. “You want to finish as high as possible but the first step is to qualify. It will be a difficult game against Marseille so let’s be cauti…
Chelsea preview + Wenger heaps pressure on UEFA
Can someone please tell me what’s going on with all these early kick-offs? Have the police got wind of how …Continue reading »
Blues hammer Belgium side Genk
Fernando Torres scored twice during Chelsea’s comfortable 5-0 victory on Wednesday, a win that matched the club’s biggest ever in the Champions League. The night’s first goal came from Raul Meireles in the eighth minute when he made t…
Match Analysis: Chelsea v Genk
Wednesday 19th October 2011 Kick off: 7.45pm Stamford Bridge UEFA Champions League Chelsea took on Genk on Wednesday evening as their next opponents in the Champions League group stage. Andre Villas Boas made six changes from the Chelsea side which …
Arsenal grab a win – and maybe the group
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Match Preview: Arsenal v Olympique de Marseille; Champion’s League Match Day 3
When Marseille was drawn into a group with Dortmund, Arsenal and Marseille, it was widely speculated that Arsenal and Dortmund would be the teams that ran with the group. Well so far the pundits have only been partially right. After a convincing 1-0 wi…
Otelul Galati vs Manchester United: Must win for United; footballing lesson for Galati
Manchester United travel to Romania to face UEFA Champions League debutantes Otelul Galati as the visitors seek to finally secure their first win in Group C. Alex Ferguson’s men are definitely favorites here unless the Romanians can come up with a shocker. Check out the football betting offers and place your bet where you see [...]
Would you refuse to treble your salary?
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Rooney Deserves His Punishment Handed Out By UEFA
The FA and a personal letter by Wayne Rooney have both failed to overturn his three match ban for kicking Miodrag Dzudovic during England’s 2-2 draw in Podgorcia against Montenegro last Friday evening.
Rooney Handed Three-Match Ban By UEFA For Montenegro Red-Card!
Disappointingly Wayne Rooney has been given a three-match ban by UEFA after his red-card against Montenegro which rules him out of the Euro 2012 group stages.
Wayne Rooney’s Letter To UEFA
Here’s a draft letter that I composed for Wayne Rooney to send off to UEFA’s headqaurters in Nyon, Switzerland over the weekend, which should by now have been read (I hope!):
The UEFA Financial Fair Play Rules: A Difficult Balancing Act
The aim of this article is to set out the rationale for the new UEFA Financial Fair Play Rules (FFPRs), examine what the provisions state and offer a conclusion about their significance. The article will illustrate that there are a number of criteria a…
Tevez Out, Sack And Seek Compensation, No Player Is Bigger Than Manchester City
<!– Article Start –>I was trying not to get into a fuss about what happened against Bayern but I just can not hold back, I’m extremely disappointed and livid even that Tevez can do this to us after all the help our club has given him.
I want to see Manchester City follow Gordon Taylor’s suggestion and open an enquiry to kick Carlos Tevez to the curb and seek compensation for the damage he has
A Treatise on FFP and Football Finance
The 2011/12 football season is revolutionary in more ways than one. Not only are we seeing the rise of the next great Manchester United team under the stewardship of Sir Alex Ferguson, and not only…
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Arsenal’s New Boys Part III – Mikael Arteta
What Do You Know About The New Arsenal Boys? Mikel Arteta born Mikel Amatriain Arteta on 26 March 1982 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country is a Spanish footballer who plays for Arsenal FC in England. Arteta began his football career at the loca…
Confidence Rising
Today we saw our beloved Arsenal take to the pitch in Germany to face the defending Bundesliga champions, Borussia Dortmund, in Champions League action. The result, a 1-1 draw, is not bad at all and gives us a point to get things started in the group stages of the competition. I am trying very hard [...]
Borussia Dortmund vs Arsenal: Preview and Starting Eleven
I really like it when there is football every two-three days. You always have something to look forward to and it also means that Champions League is back. Champions League football officially kicks off today with the group stages and we start our camp…
First Test
Since our season has fizzled along at a snails pace so far, and has included a right drubbing from one of the two best teams in the Premier League, it’s hard to say where Arsenal currently are in relation to … Continue reading →
Vermaelen out for two months
The news broken overnight by The Mirror that Thomas Vermaelen could miss the next two months after surgery on hisRead the Rest…
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