On the day that Portsmouth became the first Premier League club to go into administration, there was good financial news from Arsenal. Arsenal announced that they have reduced the clubs debt by almost 40% to £203.6 million by selling more of the apartments it built at Highbury. The sale of some 261 units meant that […]
U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley has named a 20 player roster to face the Netherlands at Amsterdam ArenA on March 3 in the team’s final international fixture date before the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The team, which includes sixteen European-based, three domestic-based players and one player based in Mexico, will begin gathering […]
Jose Mourinho and Inter Milan won the first leg as they beat Carlos Ancelotti’s Chelsea team 2-1 in the first leg of their Champions League tie. Milito set the San Siro alight with a third-minute goal but Chelsea responded strongly and, after Didier Drogba had been denied by the crossbar, Salomon Kalou levelled six minutes […]
In what was one of Inter’s better performances in Europe in recent years, they beat Chelsea 2-1 in the first leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie. It took Inter only three minutes to score as Thiago Motta served Eto’o and an instinctive dummy from Sneijder let the ball roll through to Milito, […]
Portsmouth are set to become the first Premier League club to go into administration after owner Balram Chainrai served notice of his intention to put the club into the hands of insolvency experts on Friday. Chainrai said it was now unlikely that a takeover deal would be done before the end of the week and […]
When the draw was made back in December, everyone looked at this matchup as the glamour tie of the round of 16. Back then Chelsea were riding high and Inter were struggling as little, and nobody gave Inter much of a chance against probably the second best team in Europe. But luckily for Inter the […]
The off the field mind games between Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho and Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti might be more enjoyable than the actual games between the two teams. The two managers are quite open in their dislike for each other. When Ancelotti was at AC Milan the two managers clashed often and Ancelotti took […]
This is amazing. Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho has been banned from the touchline for three games by the Italian FA after making a handcuffs gesture in Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Sampdoria. Mourinho will have to watch the games against Udinese, Genoa and Catania from the stands. In addition to the Mourinho suspension, Inter players […]