The manager of Queen’s Park Rangers, Jim Magilton, has been suspended by the club after a bust-up with one of his players. In the wake of Monday night’s defeat at Watford — following a 5-1 reversal at home to Middlesboro on Saturday — Magilton is …
Selhurst Park While things may be purring along nicely on the pitch for Crystal Palace — a 3-0 win at home to Watford on Sunday, in manager Neil Warnock’s 100th game in charge, maintained a six-game unbeaten streak and lifted the club to within two …
Image / onenil v2 Chelsea’s champion-quality 3-0 victory at the Emirates yesterday saw the club run up a five-point lead over nearest rivals Manchester United, while the vanquished Arsenal remain fourth; most gallingly for the Gunners, that’s a point behind rivals Tottenham — St Totteringham’s …
Photo / dullhunk The David Beckham Academy in North Greenwich, which was opened in 2005 by the lank-haired ex-England captain as a cutting-edge facility aimed at helping impoverished kids and teasing out the next generation of footballer, is likely to close early in 2010 when …
Image by R4vi from the Londonist Flickr pool The Manchester Evening News is crowing after finally realising that the Olympic football tournament kicks off two days before the opening ceremony, which means the ‘start’ of the Games will probably be outside London. “Despite the capital …
Image / Chris Chelsea fans who chuckled at the risible new name for Newcastle’s St James Park stadium will be choking on their match-day pies at the news that the league-leading Londoners are thinking of selling the naming rights to Stamford Bridge. The club’s new …
Image / DeadMansPit Less floodlights, more Footlights: cops in charge of investigating the violence during West Ham and Millwall’s Cup match in September have admitted that images released this week of the suspects included actors from new hooligan-themed film The Firm. It happened after police …
Photo copyright to the author. “It was a fantastic experience when I made my Premier League debut. The thing that stuck in my mind was that nobody could ever take that away from me. It was a childhood dream that I’d been chasing for a …
The strange tale of West Ham midfielder Calum Davenport, who ended up in intensive care after being stabbed in both legs while at his mother’s house in August, has taken another hairpin twist: the player has been charged with assaulting his sister, Cara, during the …
Tottenham have submitted a planning application with Haringey council for their swank new stadium, and have released some more concept pictures of the design. The project is costed at a rumoured £400 million, much like Arsenal’s Emirates stadium, and in a further similarity is situated …
Wanna buy a stadium? Crystal Palace’s home of Selhurst Park has been put up for sale as administrators break up the property empire of owner Paul Kemsley. For those of you wondering, ‘Paul who?’, suffice it to say that the saga of who exactly owns …
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