Welcome to 2011-12

It always feels like the longest 10 weeks in history when the football season’s finished. Just what is there to do over the summer? The only thing to read about is transfer rumours dreamt up by the club’s tea lady, or how your favourite stars sandcastle skills seem to be dwindling to say the least.

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Liverpool Revolution?

It’s been quite a season for those associated with Liverpool Football Club. In October, new owners were brought in to try and stabilise the rocking ship that was once a dominant force across Europe, while in January, fans witnessed the return of a club legend, to take the place of Liverpool’s shortest serving manager.

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Passionate Premier League Fans

Watching an English premier league match, involving one of these big teams in a public viewing centre in Nigeria is always very interesting and challenging. There are always large turnouts of people at these venues occupying every available space, sweating profusely for lack of sufficient ventilation.

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Daily Gossip Round Up@ Lukaku not short of confidence, Fergie explains Berbie exit and Gunners reject latest Cesc bid

The daily transfer speculation was temporally put on hold today with the football league kicking off this weekend.

Despite the eagerly anticipated return of league football it was hardly enough to prevent another Cesc story, an overly confident teenager and a blunder by Ferguson.

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BORUSSIA DORTMUND: The Team to Watch Out For in Europe Next Season

The tactical genius of a manager is not always enough and the players have to back up the efforts of their manager for a team to be successful. In Dortmund, throughout the course of the season, almost every player played their part in ensuring the team ends the season as league winners.

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Booed off twice in pre-season friendly’s...

Ladies and gentleman, the bottom of the barrel has officially been reached.

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Thursday round up: Valencia confirm no Mata bid, big man heading back to the Premiership, City sign new Maradona, Brazilian start rejected United and Sneijder, Cahill, Samba, Ajax ace.

Arsenal have been caught up in another on-going transfer saga, this time its Juan Mata who could be on his way to North London or not. Giant Brum forward is heading back to the Premiership. Cahill, Samba, Brazilian wonderkid and Dutch ace are all staying put and Aguero has a bigger ego than his father-in-law.

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Is Daglish flooding the midfield to his demise?

Liverpool ended the 2010-2011 campaign on a high, sure they hadn’t reached Europe but after a disastrous start and the sacking of Roy Hodgson miracles could not be expected from King Kenny in such a short space of time. Hodgson left Anfield in a poor state, his summer acquisitions bar one were extremely poor notably Cristian Poulsen and Paul Konchescky.

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A-League more like Z-League...

G’day! Most of you might have heard of the A-League some of you may not? It’s the nearest thing Australia has got to the premier league or shall I say the conference! The A-league has many difficulties to overcome before it is celebrated as the countries number one sport and one of the top leagues in the world. The two main sports in Australia are the NRL (National Rugby League) and the AFL (Australian Football League) which overshadows the ‘soccer’.

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Arsene Wenger has set the managerial blueprint

But would Arsenal fans sacrifice a well run club, a young talented squad playing "total football" for actually wining something? Despite the achievements above, the Gunners still remain trophy less for the past half decade, even their neighbours have won the Carling Cup in this time.

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What are those on your feet

Yes, I felt like my hero Andrei Kanchelskis, but sadly it did not have the Jimmy Grimble effect and I was still the unorthodox right back, which I am today.

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Bale - overrated?

"World Class" is banded around willy nilly in modern football, to many players are assigned this title, on the merit of a game or run of form. Gareth Bale is a good player, in fact he is a very good player, but World Class?

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The diary off a Sunday League Manager

Monday 17.57 - call opposition and arrange the weekend fixture, first polite and seemingly mandatory question "how's the team going" bearing in mind we are routed to the bottom off the league and lost our last game 8-0, to*ser! But you politely brush it off and continue with the fixture arrangements and 10 minutes off boredom as the idiot brags about how well their team is doing

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No shame in losing to the best team ever

Barcelona like Muhammad Ali proved they are simply "the greatest" ...

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Ginger assassin

Paul Scholes, the best English midfielder ever?

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