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West Ham United

Premiership Final Day Preview

by Paul Bestall on May 21, 2009 · 3 comments

So, how’s your nerves? Sky Sports News have today been running an article about stress relief for fans for Sunday. Tips included having a hot bath, avoiding alcohol and meditating to stay relaxed in the build up to the final round of matches in the Premiership. Which will be no help to any of the [...]

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All they needed was a win to make sure they were free of being dragged in to the final day relegation battle against a side guaranteed Premiership Football for next season but Portsmouth proved a bridge too far for Sunderland. They will now go in to Sunday’s final round of matches knowing whatever happens they [...]

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Gianfranco Zola – Football’s Mr Nice Guy

by Tom Mallows on May 7, 2009 · 3 comments

Ok I give up, I can’t find one.
I’ve tried to find a football fan that has a strong disliking for Gianfranco Zola and failed miserably – the guy is just too darn nice!
Even those who aren’t fond of Chelsea – the club he played for so successfully – can’t help but respect and admire not [...]

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West Ham Fans To Get A Surprise

by Paul Bestall on April 29, 2009 · 14 comments

When the final whistle went and those West Ham fans who’d spent most of Saturdays game against Chelsea abusing former old boys, Frank Lampard and John Terry, had disappeared to the pubs around and about, I bet they never thought they’d ever see either player back at Upton Park that soon. Obviously they were unaware [...]

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Bolton Wanderers Push For Two Tier Premiership

by Paul Bestall on April 20, 2009 · 6 comments

Well interesting news has appeared this morning as Bolton chairman, Phil Gartside’s has put forward a proposal to increase the Premiership to two leagues of 18 teams with 14 clubs from the Championship and Rangers and Celtic. The proposal is to be put before the Premier League at their meeting this Thursday and it raises some interesting points.  Gartside [...]

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So we have another Premier League footballer in trouble with the law. Chelsea defender Ashley Cole early Thursday morning decided after a night out doing charity work, that he would decide to have a little too much booze and then get into a one sided yelling match with the police. The police won when they [...]

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Gianfranco Zola: How Do You Say “Lucky” In Italian?

by Scott Bennett on February 21, 2009 · 7 comments

His owner is trying to sell the club after the global economic recession virtually wiped out his fortune in Iceland. His club is embroiled in a massive lawsuit with a £25 million fine sitting over it’s head. His better players were sold off at an alarming rate, with no possibility of new [...]

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