Who will be top dogs next May?

With another Premier League season looming over the horizon, the typical question is yet again in hot debate amongst football fans; who will win this season’s domestic title?

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Financial Un-Fair Play

The footballing aristocracy breathed a sigh of relief when Michel Platini outlined the Financial Fair Play rules for UEFA in these last few years, they were relieved because amongst the pantheon of established footballing giants, other, 'small' clubs managed to poke their heads in, and decided they liked it.

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The 'Will He, Wont He' Cycle

The premier league at the moment is dominated at regular intervals by two main players, Carlos Tevez and Cesc Fabregas. These two always ignite the bonfire of transfer speculations which feed us football fans during these bleak and barren summer months, and i have started to wonder what will happen to these two.

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How Do Tottenham Get Back In The Top Four

Tottenham Hotspur missed out on a Champions League place for the 2011/2012 season and will surely feel disappointed after their successful run to the quarter finals in the last campaign. So what do Spurs need to do to break back into the top four?

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Pay the Price for Premier League Success

Despite there being two months remaining of the transfer window, this is hotting up to be one of the closest-fought Premier League title races in recent years. The amount of money spent has been more ‘sensible’ compared to recent years, coupled with some interesting deals in the pipeline between the teams who want the crown, and of course, not forgetting January’s action. Who really is in pole position to go all the way, or crumble under the weight of expectation?

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Tough To Progress For Plucky Toffees

So a 7^th –place-finish and finishing on the cusp of European qualification was how Everton reflected on last season.

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Best season yet to come?

Perhaps next season will be the start of a new chapter in recent Premiership history where there is no longer the untouchable top four clubs. Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool , other than the last two years have been the top four teams in the 2003/2004 season as well as in 05/06, 06/07, 07/08 and 08/09.

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The most important summer for Ferguson and United?

For the past few years, being a Manchester United fan during the transfer market usually goes as follows:

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Pearce not qualified for senior job after dismal campaign

In the aftermath of England’s defeat to the Czech Republic in the Under 21 European Championship on Sunday night, the FA were quick to state that Stuart Pearce would remain in charge of the team at that level and that the offer of a two year extension, which was offered back in March, would not be withdrawn. Fans have a right to be sceptical over this decision as England were very poor in Denmark, but it is pleasing that this move will have all but ruled Pearce out of the running to be Fabio Capello’s successor when the Italians’ contract expires next summer.

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Not getting married in the summer of a World Cup Year

‘Well, we can’t marry in the summer on a World Cup year,’ said my girlfriend.

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Big Four, Top Six, Also-Ran Eighty Six

So here it is, the day when any hope of a slightly competitive league structure in England takes a step beyond that of Spain into the realms of predictability. Sure enough the Spanish only have two teams who can feasibly challenge for the league ala Scotland, but at least they can put the blame due to their rather terrifying television money discrepancies. What’s our excuse?

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Team of the Year...

So the 2010/11 season is finished. Minus the small matter of the play-offs of course, but for the top division, it's now a busy three months preparing to do it all over again.

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DRUG RUNNING, MONEY LAUNDERING AND HEAD-BUTTING A POLICEMAN - Rooney & Balotelli Are Lovely Lads Compared To This lot

As the Premier League season came to an end this weekend, Ross Fisher takes a look back – not at moments like Rooney and Berbatov’s overhead kicks against City and Liverpool, but at the naughty moments that have had the media up in arms – finding out that this country’s league has never had it so tame.

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Samba, Cahill and Parker linked (again) to Arsenal

The Express reports that Mr Wenger is finally right to put his hand in his pocket and invest in tried and tested experienced Premiership stars.

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Cesc can go…but for £50million

The Mirror reports that Arsenal are prepared to let club captain Cesc Fabregas leave the Emirates, but will only consider bids up to £50million.

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