The new football season begins this weekend, with a full roster of Barclays Premier League matches due to take place. Below are the Barclays Premier League opening weekend fixtures for 14-16 August 2010. Barclays Premier League Fixtures – Saturday 14 August 2010 Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City 12:45 White Hart Lane Aston Villa v West [...]
Last season’s Barclays Premier League top half finishers, Birmingham City, will begin the new term this weekend without their veteran centre forward Kevin Phillips after it was confirmed the player will face a lengthy absence because of a torn thigh muscle the player picked up in Saturday’s friendly match with Real Mallorca. Phillips, who scored [...]
With just days remaining before the start of the 2010/2011 Barclays Premier League season, Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill has this afternoon announced his decision to resign from the club “with immediate effect.” The announcement comes after weeks of speculation and negotiation regarding a transfer of Villa’s England star James Milner to Manchester City, though [...]
English top-flight football returned to the fore yesterday as last season’s Barclays Premier League Champions, double winning Chelsea, took on league runners-up Manchester United in the 2010 FA Community Shield at Wembley. The football match, often a good early indicator to forthcoming league fortunes, was won by Manchester United 3-1. Chelsea started perhaps the brightest, [...]
Spain have won the World Cup after defeating a sturdy Dutch side 1-0 win after extra time. Andres Iniesta was the goal hero with only four minutes before the expected penalty kicks. He received the ball from Cesc Fabregas and drove home to victorious celebrations. It was an epic match, but the Spanish deserved to [...]
European champions Spain have beaten Germany 1 – 0 to book their place in the first World Cup final in their history. The first timers will face Brazil-beaters Holland on Sunday night in Soccer City. Neutral onlookers were rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of this classy looking semi final between two of [...]
The orange men of Holland march into the final of the FIFA World Cup after beating surprise hits Uruguay 3 – 2 in the first Semi Final. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Few would have predicted that the last South American hope in this tournament would be minnows Uruguay and fewer still would [...]
FIFA World Cup 2010 is down to its final four teams, as Netherlands, Uruguay, Spain and Germany are the only teams remaining in the World’s biggest sporting event in South Africa. The Semi-Final matches are due to take place this week: World Cup 2010 Semi-Final 1 – Uruguay v Netherlands Match Date: Tuesday July 6 [...]
Germany have dumped Diego Maradona’s defensively light Argentina out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup yesterday with a phenomenal 4-0 victory over the South American side. Miroslav Klose moved, well, closer to the Brazilian Ronaldo in terms of most goals ever scored in World Cups by bagging a brace of goals in a match where [...]
Uruguay have dramatically crushed Africa’s World Cup dreams by sending Ghana out of the tournament via a penalty shoot out in an epic, rollercoaster of a game at Soccer City in yesterday evening’s Quarter Final between the two sides. Uruguay, who had already dispatched South Africa in the group stage games, have once again broken [...]
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