Saturday Morning Round Up @ Drogba to Spurs, United starlet on the way out, plus AVB, McLeish, Magpies and more

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp says he would be keen to take Chelsea striker Didier Drogba to White Hart Lane.

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Clyne to shine in Premiership?

On Wednesday he was helping keep Manchester United at bay.

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We can only beat big clubs

After watching the fantastic match on Sunday between Chelsea and Liverpool, obviously my first thought was of jubilation and relief that we finally got a much needed three points.

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Manchester United v Sunderland Preview: There Will No Sentiment In The Air

Manchester United will be looking for their first league win of November at home to Steve Bruce’s Sunderland at Old Trafford tomorrow afternoon.

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Promoted trio find their feet

Since the formation of the modern phenomenon that is the English Premier League in 1992, the trio of Queens Park Rangers, Norwich City and Swansea City have just eight seasons of top-flight experience between them, prior to this season. Of those nine, four belong to QPR and four to Norwich, with Swansea flying the Welsh flag for the first time during the current campaign.

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Saturday Morning Round Up @ Spurs eye Barca defenders, Chelsea striker loving life, Pompey turn to United legend

Portsmouth want former Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as their new manager.

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Here's What We Learnt This Weekend #8

Firstly we’ve learnt that next week’s Manchester Derby at Old Trafford between the top two in the division; Manchester United and Manchester City is probably going to be hyped up as the biggest Manchester Derby ever.

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Saturday morning round up @ Chelsea ay record fee for 14-year old, Arsenal ponder French ace and City target wants move

Chelsea have paid £2million to MK Dons for 14-year-old midfielder Oluwaseyi Ojo, a record fee for someone his age.

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Reds maintain expectations

There’s an expression in football for a certain type of team. A team with, maybe three or four good players and the rest are all pretty ordinary. If you happen to be one of the “ordinary” players, then the team is said to be carrying you. Carrying you in the sense that you can’t contribute anything to the game.

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Liverpool must improve

The beginning of a new season of expectation. Champions League qualification? Easy, they said. King Kenny is the man. Top four? Champions, they enthused. And so it came to pass. The reds of Liverpool came out, all guns blazing, quick passing, plenty of movement and attacking intent. Certainly in the first half, Liverpool raised the bar. Unfortunately not the cross bar. If they had the score would have been 3-0 at half time. If's and but’s. Small words with big meanings.

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Premiership Review N - S

On the face of it, Newcastle’s pre-season looks like an unmitigated disaster.  Their captain has been sold, other star performers have vented their frustrations at the way the club in run on Twitter as well as three players being refused entry to the USA for the pre-season tour.  Not exactly what you call plain sailing.

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Premier League preview: Profiling the promoted teams

With a few days to go until the new season of Premier League football, the self- titled best league in Europe, there is a sense of anticipation that this will be most exciting, open title races in years, with the big teams all spending big money and strengthening to land the biggest prize.

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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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Life is still the same for long-life Gradi as he marks 70

Back in the summer of 1983, Dario Gradi was offered a route back into club football management after being cast into the wilderness as a result of failure at Crystal Palace. That June, he embarked on an unbelievable journey that begins its 28^th year at Gresty Road in charge of Crewe Alexandra.

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Which of the promoted sides will fare best? Part One

When the three teams promoted from the Championship to the Premier League are confirmed, there is something that always happens. Each of them are written off as ‘relegation certainties’.

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