Barcelona at a Crossroads

By all accounts, on Saturday Barcelona tore through Osasuna, spanking the Pamplona side 8-0. While this may have added flames to the fire that is the non-competitive nature of La Liga, it also added to the thought that this Barcelona side is one of the best that the world has ever seen. But while everything on the pitch seems as rosy as ever, off the pitch the club appears to be at a crossroads.

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Diary of a Sky Sports Soccer Saturday Reporter

I have to say, Leon Clarke’s hat-trick for Chesterfield against Carlisle did make me smile. My joy for Clarke had nothing to do with any personal feelings towards the on-loan striker, it was more a case of how it went down with his parent club Swindon Town.

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Two types of genius

The two greatest footballers in the world are Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Both play in La Liga and both are icons around the globe.Yet how can two such wonderful attacking players have equal success but have such contrasting styles?

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Sorry Sorry Arsenal. Should Wenger go?

So, what can I say? Arsenal score five goals in a game and still ended up losing 4-3. Unbelievable! I think it goes without saying that Arsene Wenger is hanging on by a thread to his near 15 year tenure at Arsenal. How ironic would it be if what transpired to be Wenger's last game as Arsenal manager was a 4-3 loss to the team that he defeated in his first match as Arsenal manager back in 1996?

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Milan’s new team return to the top table

Periods of transition do not come as stark as they did for AC Milan, regarded as one of Europe’s true giants with seven Champions League wins, in sinking to the depths of the Europa League at one point in the last three years at odds with such proud European tradition, they hit the lowest ebb with annihilation in the Champions League by Manchester United.

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3 Players United Will Have To Be Wary Of - Chelsea

Manchester United of course play Chelsea at home on Sunday in the Premier League and with that in mind it’s worth taking a look at three players who we should be wary of going into the game.

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Has incREDiBLUE Manchester fallen?

Four Premier League games each this season and the two Manchester clubs had already scored 32 goals between them. T

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Their toughest season yet

Paul Tisdale’s Exeter City travelled to League One favourites Charlton Athletic on Saturday and despite a spirited 10-man display, the Grecians left the Valley with nothing after going down to a 2-0 loss.

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Why England would be wrong to appoint Redknapp

113 places separate England and Wales in the FIFA rankings. According to statistics, England are the fourth best team in the world; Wales 117. They looked a shadow of that when they came up against Gary Speed and co. playing out a lacklustre 1-0 win in a match that the Dragons often outplayed the Three Lions.

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Together. Diving. We Stand

“It’s a man’s game”. Yeah right! Do we really want this to be the slogan of the FA? For one thing the women’s game is growing and should be given all the financial backing that can be thrown at it so it can continue to grow.

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United’s Record Against Benfica

Well tonight of course see’s Manchester United kick-off their UEFA Champions League group-stage campaign away to Benfica. United have played Portugal’s first European Champions 7 times in the competition having won 6 out of those encounters with the other game being lost.

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Fantasy Football: No Country For Bold Men

FOR many, the start of the Premiership football season is enought to whet the footballing appetite. For others, their footballing feast must come wih a side of fantasy. It’s that time of the year when football aficionados everyhwere desperately throw themselves at the unforgiving feet of the fantasy football league.

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Wenger must go?

You could also argue that he has changed the youth system at the club and give it 3 or 4 years and Arsenal will be atop the league with an average age of 13. How often though have you heard that with Arsenal? For years and years I have heard that amazing players will come through and dominate the team but since then Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey are the only key players to emerge from the youth setup.

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England’s Poor Travellers

We live in a country where players from far and wide arrive on our shores, looking to make a name for themselves in England. The Premier League is now an eclectic mix, with players from as far afield as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Oman currently plying their trade in the English top tier.

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Looking Forward To The Champions League? We Are

Tomorrow of course sees the start of the UEFA Champions League, which is arguably the biggest club competition in the world. Manchester United as ever are in the competition and will be looking to go one step further than last year and claim a fourth European Cup title.

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