Tottenham Hotspur’s Gareth Bale became only the third player to be named the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year. Andy Gray in 1976-77 and Cristiano Ronaldo six years ago were the other two. Bale has been brilliant for Spurs this season, playing with a lot more freedom under […]
The New England Revolution picked up their first home win of the season on Saturday as they beat the Philadelphia Union 2-0 in front of 18,383. Diego Fagundez and man-of-the-match Lee Nguyen scored the two Revs goals. After getting thumped in New York last week, Revs boss Jay Heaps switched formations tonight. He went to a 4-1-4-1 […]
Barcelona will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on La Liga’s title after a last-minute strike from Ander Herrera saw them held to a 2-2 draw by Athletic Bilbao. The visitors were out of sorts for an hour at San Mames and deservedly trailed to Markel Susaeta’s first-half goal, but the […]
Even with a reserve side, Bayern Munich had no problem beating Freiburg 1-0 on Saturday to break the record for the number of points in a Bundesliga season. With the second leg of their Champions League match this week in Spain, coach Jupp Heynckes made 10 changes from the side that thrashed Barcelona in midweek. […]
This Saturday the 1-3-2 New England Revolution take on the 3-2-2 Philadelphia Union at Gillette. To help preview the game and give a Union perspective, I interviewed Dan Walsh, editor and founder, of The Philly Soccer Page. Its been a good start to the season for Philadelphia with only one defeat in your last seven […]
What is it about Liverpool manager and their tone deaf support for Luis Suarez? Kenny Dalglish failed the understand the public’s opinion of Suarez racially abusing Patrice Evra. Now it is Brendan Rodgers turn to fail to understand the public sentiment. A day after Luis Suarez was given a 10-match suspension for biting Chelsea defender […]
They are not calling it the end of an era, but Barcelona vice-president Josep Maria Bartomeu says that the team will be “shaken up” over the summer. While Bartomeu did not talk about potential exits, but suggested that an overhaul of the squad was planned. “We will make four or five signings,” he said. “We […]
According to the German newspaper Bild, Jose Mourinho has agreed in principle to take charge at Chelsea next season, and that one of his players will be current Atlético Madrid hitman Radamel Falcao. The newspaper says that Real Madrid have agreed to let Mourinho out of his contract, which runs to 2016, and that the […]
Just a day after destroying Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals, his agent strongly hinted that the Polish striker will be joining his Dortmund teammate Mario Goetze at Bayern Munich next year Lewandowski’s contract expires at the end of next season, and reports in Germany today suggest that Dortmund have decided to cash in […]