In terms of players I’d like to hit, Andrei Arshavin is right up there.
To start with, he has the sort of arrogant swagger which is a pre-requisite of any player who wants to play for Arsenal (that, as well as being technically gifted, I must concede). However, he also made a bit of a tit of himself over the last 6 months by punting himself around to virtually …
If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing right, no matter what it is! In a look back at Footballs more controversial characters in the light of Craig Bellamy and Adebayor behaviour over the last few weeks we salute “Old Big ‘ead” and Cantona, who knew how to deal with unruly fans
So do the supporters of Manchester United, Manchester city, Nottingham Forest and L.A Galaxy all have reason to behave?
Slaps, smacks, Punches and kicks, who is top of thumps? Personally I love the passion in the game, we aren’t condoning violence but if you are going to do it make sure it counts.
Modern footballers just don’t know how to scrap with fans, when you compare against our leaders of yesteryear.
ROUND 1: If something is worth doing it is worth doing right! Brian Clough sorts out the hooligans and it all ends with a kiss… What class!
ROUND 2: Eric’s famous Ku Fu Kick!
ROUND3: Beckham… Well its just not the same is it!
ROUND 4: At least our Craig got a girly slap in and didn’t need to be held back.
I think the oldies take it by way of knockout, kick and slap…Wasn’t old football fun!
Week 1: I couldn’t really present you all with a series of players I’d like to smack-out without mentioning Craig Bellamy. It really wouldn’t be right, would it? So here he is.
The problem most people have with Bellamy is that he really is just a horrible little git. He’s fallen out with team-mates pretty much everywhere he’s played, opposition fans treat him like some sort of pantomime villain, and …
Linked in Italy with a move to Premier League champions Manchester United and on the radar of a plethora of European clubs, this starlet is one of the rising stars in Serie A. But who exactly is Stevan Jotevic? The Transfer Tavern asked Football Fancast columnist The New Voice of Football to investigate.
Aged just 19, Stevan Jotevic has been somewhat …
Any player that talks to the press a lot will inevitably encourage rumours but Kerrydale Street sources indicate that Gary Caldwell may be on his way out of Celtic in January. Last seasons Scottish Writers player of the year has started 2009/10 in questionable form but the defender/midfielder, nicknamed “heid” by Celtic fans has went public on his wage demands for his new contract. This has went down …
It is hard to keep up with Manchester City transfer rumours but the News of the World is reporting that Mark Hughes is “confident of landing” Barcelona enforce Yaya Toure in the January transfer window. Rumours of this move were pretty healthy in the summer but came to nothing but City’s blistering start may have made it more likely. The fact that his brother Kolo Toure has also …
With Premier League points and Europa League success to aim for, Fulham could be excused for looking to keep a full squad but The Sun believes that Diomansy Kamara is likely to be shoved out on loan in the immediate future. Championship promotion chasers Newcastle United and West Bromwich Albion appear to be in a straight fight for the hitman with the Toon Army currently leading …
Given all the talk of his client making a move during the transfer window, the agent of Moroccan international Maroune Chamakh must have been looking forward to a rest. However, sources at the Daily Mail would indicate that there is no rest for the wicked and that Arsenal are likely to “snatch” the Bordeaux hitman for a cut-price £1.5m deal.
Even though Serie A giants Juventus are …
In a summer transfer window, that the saw the world record fee smashed not once, but twice by Real Madrid, with the £56million purchase of Kaka swiftly followed by the massive £80million deal, which took Cristiano Ronaldo from Premier League champions Manchester United. The Transfer Tavern, wondered, who would prove pound for pound, quite literally to be the biggest bargain this summer.
The first and most obvious …
Rangers may have picked up just the one point after the away draw in Stuttgart in the Champions League but club officials were stunned to pick up three points exiting Germany. The tactic of parking a bus in front of their goal and hoping for a breakaway, which served them so well en route to Uefa Cup final disgrace in Manchester in 2008, was utilised once again in Germany.
This time though, German officials were …
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