Show Us The Money!

U.S. soccer players are hoping that the impending big-money arrival of David Beckham in Major League Soccer will make them all a little bit richer.

Whoa Now!

Former Real Madrid boss and Argentine World Cup winner Jorge Valdano just 'Slams' Chelsea and Liverpool.

The Scoop

I missed this over the weekend. It seems Rafa has been getting down to business and Great British Pounds with Carlitos Tevez's people...whoever they are.

Meanwhile, over in Manchester, the Glazer family are giving Sir Alex Ferguson a £50million warchest to dive straight into the transfer market, when it opens. He has the hat-trick of Gareth Bale, Owen Hargreaves, and Dimitar Berbatov on his hit list.

Chelsea snap up Steve Sidwell on a free transfer as Michael Ballack may be given a one way ticket back to Germany. This article says Sir Alex says 'not so fast'.

Barcelona have tabled an offer for Arsenal's Thierry Henry.

Juventus have landed Gaby Milito from Real Zaragoza. They are also keen on Ludovic Giuly and Gilberto Silva.

Sven Goran Eriksson apparently will now be plying his trade and spending his money on wooly scarfs and mittens in Ukraine with Dynamo Kiev.

The Scoop

It seems AC Milan are taking their eyes off of Ronnie to focus on Samuel Eto'o for the moment.

Rafa Benitez may throw Djibril Cisse into the Simão deal.

Roy Keane is willing to battle Everton to sign 'hot head' Joey Barton and David Nugent.

Sam Allardyce to take Newcastle gig?

Manchester United Win 9th EPL title

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Disgrace

You know what, I'll just never understand the corporate world. In my mind 'free advertising' is a good thing. Apparently not for the overeducated, mental coconut, hacks who run the Premier League. Now they are filing a lawsuit against YouTube for hosting highlights. Why?

Goooooaaaaaalllll!!!

Vicious Foul

During the Copa Libertadores match the other day, Boca Juniors beat Vélez Sarsfield 3 - 0. During the match, Rodrigo Palacio took a dodgey foot to the face from the Vélez goalkeeper, Gaston Sessa. He then, had to be escorted from the pitch before the Boca fans had their way with him.

Secret Weapon?

Tom Harness feels Javier Mascherano could be Liverpool's secret weapon against Milan in a few weeks time.

Here is another Op-Ed on the Liverpool vs. Milan clash from The Times' Gabriele Marcotti.

2007/2008 Liverpool Kits

I'm not sure if these are official, but here are the new Liverpool kits for next season.

The Scoop

Gabriel Heinze may have inadvertently signed his walking papers with yet another poor performance with Manchester United. This time against Milan. I believe he is too slow for the Premiership. Are there any Argentinian defenders that can play in the Premiership?

This almost earned it's own post, but I'll just stick it here in 'The Scoop'...
'Hard as nails, Metrosexual' is having surgery on his groin. I wonder if he's getting some testicles? If the implant surgery goes well, Barcelona and Milan are open arms, although the loss on the £31million paid would be Sheffield United entire summer transfer kitty.

Hmmm, first I heard of this one...
Everton's Tim Cahill to Roma this summer?

It seems Valencia have come to terms and are awaiting the eminent departure of David Villa. Now they only want the highest bidder. He should come to Liverpool where his 'mother tongue' is spoken as a first language. It would make it easier for him to settle in England.

Sir Alex Ferguson is weighing a summertime swoop for cross-town rival, Manchester City right back, Micah Richards. £20million would look good to City for rebuilding at the moment too.

Newcastle United want to cut their losses on £10million flop, Alberto Luque, and sell him off to PSV for whatever they can get.

Fiorentina striker, Luca Toni is at dee wery top of dee Bayern Munchen vish list.

Final Española en Glasgow

UEFA Cup holders, Sevilla, beat Osasuna 2 - 0 in a fine match, to go through to the Final in Glasgow (2-1 aggregate). The second goal was a nice one!


Espanyol beat a Klose-less Werder Bremen 2 -1 (5-1 aggregate) to make it an all Spanish UEFA Cup Finale. Klose was sent off after two yellows in the first 20 minutes or so. The first one was harsh and the second was a dive. After that, it would have been tough for anyone to come back and make up the difference.

'Tis the Season for Reasons

Sir Alex is placing some blame on the Premier League for their dismal display last night.

Peter Kenyon still believes Chelsea have a shot at the Premiership title.

Fruit Salad

'Arsenal supporters are planning to pelt Ashley Cole with fruit and vegetables when he returns to his boyhood club on Sunday for the first time since his bitter move to Chelsea.'

I wonder if he is planning to eat lunch?

The Scoop

Deco says there is 'no way' he is going to leave Barcelona. I suppose the size of the supple Italian leather duffle bag stuffed until it's overflowing with multi-colored Euros will be the decider in this transfer.

Newcastle United fancy their chances at prizing ex-Liverpool skipper, Sami Hyppia at seasons end. That would be a good move for Hyppia if he wants a bit more playing time before retiring. Daniel Agger seems to have earned his position of the past couple seasons, not to mention that goal against Chelsea. Lovely!

Now, the story coming from Stamford Bridge is that Jose Mourinho has one more year to make things brighter at Chelsea.

'Salivating Wifebeater' El Hadji Diouf wants away from Bolton now that Big Sam is gone. No big loss to Small Sam. Sell him to Lokomotiv Moskow! I'm sure he'll love the weather over there.

Everton boss, David Moyes wants to sign ex-Newcastle player, Michael Chopra from Cardiff. Everton have a few good young players. Look for them to sell them in two years time.

Once Charlton is relegated, Alan Curbishly is going to cash in on his prize possession, Darren Bent. No doubt there will be many suitors for his signature. Tottenham and Newcastle are guessing they can woo him. I don't thing either of them are good enough. He should sign for future European Champions, Liverpool.

'Hard as Nails Metrosexual's' wife pouts, 'We made a mistake...' I have to beg to differ, I'd say Roman made a £31million mistake.

AC Milan 3 - 0 Manchester United

AC Milan are through to the Champions League Finale in Athens. I really wanted Manchester United to make it through to make it an 'all-English' Finale, but no such luck this year.

In the first leg of this tie, Manchester United showed 'a touch of class' coming back from behind at the first half. While Dida showed 'a touch of madness' when Rooney put that beauty of a last minute strike into the back of the netting. Things worked out well for United last week. Today, on the other hand was a complete different story. The rain was pissing from the heavens at the opening of the match which made for massive amounts of sloppy play for both sides. Kaka was the first to capitalize on the nonchalant play with a brilliant strike from the top of the box into United's side netting while Manchester defenders were lunging for a re-direction, to no avail.

The second goal was, well, stupid. Gabby Heinze made a nonsensical pass to Vidic way back in his own end. With sloppy weather and all, that was just a REALLY POOR, and costly mistake to make at that stage of the match. Needless to say, Milan shoved the mistake down their throat to take utter control of the match. It was now Milan's to lose, which with Italians and their defensive minds, do not give into easily.

The third goal, by Gillardino, was a result of Manchester United pushing too far forward and getting caught on the counter attack with ZERO defenders around him. Well taken goal from the substitute.

All in all, this was not a 'sexy' match. Much like yesterday...the better team prevailed on the night.

As always...highlights will be posted when I find them.

Leeds United Pitch Invasion

Did you guys see this?

Wino Conmen

Whoa! Two, ballsy men, posed at William Gallas and Thierry Henry and swindled a few thousand quid from some four star hotels in France.

Lawsuits for some, Litigation to come

It seems like West Ham has a world of headaches to come in the next few weeks. Especially, if they escape the drop.

Liverpool 1 - 0 Chelsea (4-1 penalties)

Champions League Highlights
Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties after a 1 - 1 aggregate at the end of regulation and extra time.