It took a lot longer than it I expected it too, but Reading have hired former Southampton boss Nigel Adkins as their new manager. When Reading surprisingly sacked Brian McDermott 13 days ago, I thought that they had to have someone lined up to replace McDermott with so little time left in the season. But […]
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Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova will return to Spain this week after two months of cancer treatment in New York, the La Liga club said today. “Tito Vilanova will this week leave the city of skyscrapers to return to the Catalan capital,” Barca said in a statement on their website. The club did not say whether […]
One of the benefits of international games is that players often open up more to reporters in their own country than they do with the English media. Invariably they say something truthful and controversial and then have to backtrack and deny it. Usually with the phrase “what I meant was lost in translation”. The latest […]
Atlético Madrid striker Radamel Falcao is expected to leave the Spanish side this season, and most people expected him to turn up at Stamford Bridge. But that does’t look like it will be happening, at least if reports out of Spain are to be believed. According to Marca, before Falcao went away for the South […]
Spain has been the epicenter of the blood doping scandal that has engulfed cycling for years. Over the last 10 years, Spanish doctors have been linked with some of the biggest doping scandals in that sport. One of the doctors behind the Tyler Hamilton doping is called Eufemiano Fuentes, and he has been at the […]
I don’t understand West Ham United decision to leave Upton Park, their home since 1904, and move into the Olympic Stadium beginning in 2016. West Ham will pay £2 million a year in rent for the privilege of playing in front of empty seats in the 54,000 capacity stadium. Boris Johnson, the London mayor was […]
According to Football Espana a respected figure in Andalucian sport is claiming that Malaga are close to being taken over by Paris Saint-Germain’s owner Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani. Malaga are in financial trouble after their owner Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani decided to cut back on financing the club’s operations and not paying their bills. The […]
The French newspaper Le Parisien was the first to broach the subject recently that Paris Saint Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has had enough of Ligue 1 and that he wants to return to Italy. Ibra has carried PSG on his back for most of the season, and he has not being amused with the attitude […]