Debt. It’s been a theme across the world over the past three years, is it about to be the major influence in the 2010/11 season. The News of the World published the first major mainstream back page report of the season on a battle that has been bubbling away under the surface for a number [...]
Everyone who is living on planet football in England will know that in the next 14 days there are four huge semi-finals in European competition, and that two games in the Premier League on Sunday are likely to decide the title.
But where else in England and Europe should the discerning football fan be looking for the drama, excitement, elation and sheer gut-wrenching fear and desolation that makes this the greatest game on planet Earth…
Europe has been in shutdown this last week and a half because of a volcano in meltdown in Iceland, and football has not escaped its heavenly wrath. Meanwhile, League One continues to be an enigma right to the end – although at least Norwich have deservedly been promoted. And, the Premier League’s top four have had a poor season this year – but it may not be the same next season. Sean Smith writes…
Easter weekend found a few casualties, and a few winners, but not as many as we usually find on the biggest weekend for domestic football of the year. Footbet’s editor – a former English Leagues editor for ESPN, takes a look at all three lower leagues and picks out the best bets for the final month of the season, including a 25/1 shot
We are now creeping towards the 100-day marker for the world cup in South Africa in the summer, which is starting to have an intriguing side-effect on the Premier League. It is a very difficult thing to spot, but any team with a number of World Cup-bound players in it, is going to suffer a little as those players begin to get the injury-sweats. To pick up an injury at this stage – with only a couple of weeks before national managers make provisional decisions about their final squad – would be absolutely calamitous, and the players are more than aware of it.
The season is just moments away and the inevitable has happened – favourites Leeds are down a player. And not just any player either… whereas the fans of the League One club would have sighed and accepted the disappearance of a potentially temperamental Jermaine Beckford or the ageing Luciano Becchio with a whistful shrug, the [...]
