Is David Beckham overrated?

The recent announcement that David Beckham is to retire at the end of this season brought a great many players and managers to comment on his fantastic contribution to the game. His professionalism and dedication, at both club and international level, cannot be questioned and he is regularly hailed as a role model for children playing the game. He has won titles in four different countries but has his iconic status clouded the public judgement of how good he actually is?

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Olympic stadium debate drags on.......and on.....

Nearly a year after the Olympic Games finished, we are still no nearer to discovering which team, if any, will occupy the Olympic Stadium moving forward.

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Has Leandro Damiao missed his Premier League chance? (Video)

The Brazilian international has been courted by Tottenham Hotspur for several transfer windows.

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Roger Espinoza's path to the Premier League (Video)

With the likes of Wilson Palacios, Hendry Thomas and Maynor Figueroa representing the club in recent years, the nationality of new signing Roger Espinoza will come as no great surprise to Wigan fans.

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Fair criticism or cursing our own creation? Or, lessons we haven’t learned from Victor Frankenstein

Like many people, I found myself not hugely enamoured with the prospect of the Olympics, but willing to give it a go due to the fact that it was 2 solid weeks of sport.

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An account of a boring Olympic football match

GABON 0, 0 REPUBLIC OF KOREA, WEMBLEY STADIUM  ( London 2012 Olympics ) ' Korea you R.O.K' and ' Go, go Gabon, where are you from ? ' are two recommended chants for those that are not content to remain neutral '

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Fans won’t find it as easy to follow Rodgers’ urge to forget

For a football tournament played in the good spirit and togetherness of the Olympic games, there was something sinister about the taste left in the mouth following Luis Suarez’ appearance against Team GB on Wednesday night that was played to a soundtrack of boos and barracking. Suarez is a controversial figure with an 18 month spell in the Premier League blighted by an array of incidents, most notably his sanction for a racial offence against Manchester United’s Patrice Evra, but it would take the most unforgiving of moral judgement to argue that Suarez deserves to be subjected to the kind of abuse that trivialises the setting the Uruguayan found himself in.

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Team GB women make case for spotlight

As a sort of footnote to the men’s experiment on the Olympic stage during the 2012 games, the female equivalent have had to settle for the typical marginalisation it usually faces when competing for headlines in the default-male orientated sport of football. Hope Powell’s squad qualified at the top of group E having conceded 0 goals and winning all three matches to set up a quarter-final date with Canada.

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Japan threaten new football dawn

The men’s Olympic football competition at the London games has been surprisingly immersive so far, the samba beat of Brazil have lit up group C while entertainment has been provided throughout the groups by the likes of Morocco, Honduras, South Korea and Mexico, whilst Team GB have provided adept enough performances to maintain a jingoistic interest in a tournament that has faced questions over its value in an Olympic setting, the age-old argument where a gold medal is not the pinnacle of the sport.

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Olympic gold is Brazil’s to throw away

After being held for much of the game, Brazil finally managed to overcome Belarus 3-1 in Group C encounter to send them top after their 3-2 win over Egypt on Thursday.

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Great Britain Gold Rush: Reasons we can bag ourselves a medal

As the historic team GB prepares for its first Olympics since 1960 there is reason to stem the tide of pessimism that has epidemically replaced optimism across Great Britain.

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Becksgate

It emerged today that David Beckham won’t be representing Great Britain at the Olympic Games this summer.

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