Ticket price freeze at Chelsea March 8, 2012 FOOTBALL: Chelsea have frozen prices on all tickets for next season and vowed to cut the cost of Champions League games, if they qualify. The Blues currently lie three points behind Arsenal in the race to finish in the Premier League’s all-important top four.
Deadly Defoe keeps Spurs marching on March 7, 2012 Tottenham through to FA Cup quarter finals but Harry can’t guarantee striker first team football TOTTENHAM 3 vs STEVENAGE 1 A CLINICAL display of finishing from Jermain Defoe ensured Tottenham a safe passage through to the FA Cup quarter finals but his manager Harry Redknapp insists he is still unable to guarantee the England striker [...]
Wenger faces Uefa action over Milan referee jibes March 7, 2012 ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger is facing the possibility of Uefa sanction for the third time in a year after he confronted referee Damir Skomina following his side’s 3-0 win over AC Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday night. The Gunners boss, who was banned from the touchline for the first three matches of this [...]
Gers could fail to finish the season March 7, 2012 RANGERS administrators have warned that the financially-stricken Scottish champions are in severe danger of being unable to complete the season. Duff and Phelps said yesterday they had again failed to agree cost-cutting measures with players, leaving them with little choice but to accelerate attempts to sell the club. David Whitehouse of Duff and Phelps said: [...]
Hoddle keen on making a sensational Blues return March 6, 2012 Former Chelsea boss ready to end six-year managerial exile and says club should appoint an Englishman FORMER England and Chelsea manager Glenn Hoddle is desperate to seal a dramatic return to Stamford Bridge as Andre Villas-Boas’s successor and has urged the club to break with tradition and employ an Englishman. Villas-Boas became the sixth managerial [...]
Low emerges as surprise candidate for Chelsea job March 5, 2012 Germany boss in frame to replace Villas-Boas as Eriksson declares interest and Benitez drops hint GERMANY coach Joachim Low last night emerged as a shock contender to succeed Andre Villas-Boas as Chelsea turned their attention to recruiting a long-term replacement for the sacked manager. Low, one of the most highly-regarded technicians on the continent, having [...]
Sven’s a better bet than Di Matteo March 5, 2012 CHELSEA owner Roman Abramovich made the right call in sacking Andre Villas-Boas on Sunday after the manager seemingly lost his way with the players – although things could get worse before they get better. The Portuguese appeared unable to motivate them any more, which means they were not happy with something. To me it looks [...]
£33m: Blues count cost as AVB gets the bullet March 4, 2012 Villas-Boas becomes sixth Chelsea manager to be axed in Abramovich era, after eight months CHELSEA finally lost patience with manager Andre Villas-Boas yesterday, bring to an end an eight-month tenure that cost the club around £33m. Villas-Boas was sacked hours after Saturday’s defeat at West Brom delivered another blow to their hopes of returning to [...]
United and Young show Spurs true hallmark of champions March 4, 2012 TOTTENHAM (1) vs MANCHESTER UNITED (3) MANCHESTER UNITED extinguished Tottenham’s flagging Premier League title hopes with a clinical display at White Hart Lane yesterday, but manager Harry Redknapp insists his side remain on course to end the season as London’s top club. Redknapp held a team meeting on Thursday in which he stressed the need [...]
Pogrebnyak treble fuels Fulham romp March 4, 2012 FULHAM (5) vs WOLVES (0) FULHAM manager Martin Jol is ready to hand January signing Pavel Pogrebnyak a new contract after the Russia striker plundered a perfect hat-trick in an emphatic drubbing of sorry Wolves. Pogrebnyak, who joined from Stuttgart until the end of the season, scored with his head and both feet to take [...]