by The Yank on July 3, 2009
The 2007/2008 season is one that Chelsea’s Nicolas Anelka would love to forget. The season would start out solid with Anelka scoring ten goals in his first eighteen games for the Bolton Wanderers, but when Anelka was transferred over to the Blues it seemed he had forgot to pack his lucky boots. The French forward only scored one goal in ten Premier League matches for Chelsea. Even worse he was considered the scapegoat of the club’s defeat to Man U in the Champions’ League Final. Anelka’s penalty kick, the seventh and final, was blocked by Edwin van der Sar securing the victory for Man U.
by VincentFletcher on July 2, 2009
Are Manchester City’s fans troubled by their club’s transfer window endeavours?
I thought that the whole point of choosing to follow City instead of United was that you didn’t want to follow a team mired in debt with a bench full of blatantly there-for-the-wages foreign players. I thought that the point of being a Blue was that – rightly or wrongly - you could regard any success that came your way as earned instead of bought.
by The Yank on July 2, 2009
Fulham’s 2008/2009 season was not only a tremendous improvement from the previous year’s outcome, it would conclude as the best finish by the Cottagers in Premier League history. The club finished the year in seventh place and earned fourteen victories over the course of the season (six more then 2008’s record). The result was good enough for the Cottagers to contend for the UEFA Cup next season.
by David Wilson on July 1, 2009
The summer transfer market is shaping up to be a very interesting one with Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea, all poised to throw around some serious money. Here is a list of all the Premier League deals during this transfer window. Updated July 1
Arsenal
Incoming:
Arsenal
Thomas Vermaelen (undisc.)
Outgoing:
Amaury Bischoff (released)
Rui Fonte (released)
Aston Villa
Incoming:
Outgoing:
Gareth Barry (£12million)
Martin Laursen (retired)
Stuart Taylor (undisc.)
Birmingham City
Incoming:
Christian Benitez – Undisclosed
Scott Dann – Undisclosed
Giovanny Espinoza (undisc.)
Joe Hart (loan)
Roger Johnson (£5million)
Outgoing:
Radhi Jaidi (released)
Artur Krysiak (released)
Mehdi Nafti (released)
Stephen Kelly (free)
by The Yank on July 1, 2009
2009 WPS Power Rankings (07/01)
Last Week’s Ranking in Parenthesis…
- Los Angeles Sol (1): The Sol aren’t even making the inaugural season of MLS sporting for the fans. They won two more games last week to bring their total to 10, and they have only one loss and so far ceded only 5 goals.
- Boston Breakers (3): The Breakers looked smart at Harvard Field, playing tactically crisp defense and blanking the dangerous Freedom attack. I still think they are mediocre, but I have to admit they have grit.
by The Yank on June 30, 2009
Now that the season has come to a finish it is time to honor those that deserve to be awarded and chastise those that deserve to be denigrated. It has been another long, hard road for every club that battled in the Premier League this season. We will take a look back at some of the year’s best performances and also some of the worst. Each day we will introduce a new category and we will try to select the most deserving candidate for our annual and inaugural Premier League Tickets Online award winners and (in a few cases) losers.
