Referee Mark Clattenburg has been suspended by the FA and the referee's body, pending enquiries into reports regarding the alleged debts of his company. Clattenburg was due to referee this...
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Sebastian Coe has said he has spoken to Sir Alex Ferguson about him managing a Great Britain football team at the London Olympics in 2012. The issue of Great Britain team entering the tournament is...
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As the first of a regular feature on a Thursday/Friday on this site I am going to set you a really difficult football trivia question. You'll have the weekend to work out the answer and I will...
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Luton Town's appeal to the FA to have their ten point penalty removed has failed. This means that the club still faces a thirty point deficit before a ball is kicked in anger in the forthcoming...
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You have to begin to question the ambition Liverpool are displaying so far during this close season. Their main target seems to be Gareth Barry, an excellent player, but one to improve them...
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The fixtures for next season in England have been announced. The three promoted clubs to the Premier League now know that they are likely to know their fate fairly early in the season. Hull City have...
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Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton starts a six month prison sentence this morning after being sentenced for what the judge called "a violent and cowardly act". On 27th December last year...
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I sat and watched the FA Cup Final on Saturday and I was hugely disappointed. I was totally neutral and didn't mind who won, I just wanted to see a good game of football. I had been looking...
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Portsmouth Chief Executive Peter Storrie has reacted angrily to suggestions that Harry Redknapp is to leave the club at the end of this season. The story 'doing the rounds' is that Redknapp...
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With Manchester United and Chelsea finishing as the top two in the Premier League for the third season in a row and the two teams preparing to face each other in the Champions League final in Moscow...
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After losing 2-0 at home to Chelsea yesterday, Kevin Keegan gave a very honest assessment of what he can achieve with Newcastle United next season and in the immediate future. "I thought,...
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Pele will be attending Stoke City's Britannia Stadium to unveil a statue of the great former England keeper Gordon Banks. On 12th July this year a Pele XI will take on a Gordon Banks XI in a...
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Since the Chinese started kicking a ball around some 400 years before the Common Era began, the game of football has sharply divided opinions amongst it's followers. I've been watching,...
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The battle at the bottom of the Premier League promises to be every bit as exciting as the battle at the top. Derby County have been down for a long time but their battling performance in the 1-0...
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Bolton Wanderers became the final English team to be knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night losing 1-0 at Sporting Lisbon having drawn the first leg 1-1. There are no English teams left in the last...
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In last night's round of 16 matches in the UEFA Cup both Tottenham and Everton won their games reversing the poor results achieved in the first leg. As an Englishman watching as both games went...
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When Jonathan Woodgate scored the winner for Tottenham in the Carling Cup Final the celebrations began. Disciplinarian manager Juande Ramos told the players that they could ignore his strict new...
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by daryl on September 22, 2007
About a year ago I did a roundup of my favourite football podcasts. Thirteen months later it's time to do it again. The bad news is that Steve Bunce's excellent The Rumour Mill is no longer...
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by daryl on September 11, 2007
Football mad Italian pink paper Gazzetta dello Sport has published all the Serie A salaries, and Milan's Kaka tops the list. The Brazilian genius takes home a decent €6.0 million a year, which...
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by ruth on February 24, 2007
Daryl will be leaving the Soccer Weblog shortly and we're looking for someone to pass the ball to. If soccer (football to some others) is your passion, and you've been blogging about this for...
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by daryl on February 15, 2007
Some things I missed while away from Soccer-Weblog: 1. Roman Abramovich tightening the purse strings. About time. 2. The January transfer window being incredibly dull. 3. Cristiano Ronaldo to...
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by daryl on October 25, 2006
Marco Materazzi isn't ready to shake hands with Zinedine Zidane just yet. "It could happen one day but all the conditions will have to be met," Materazzi told French radio station RTL....
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