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Xabi Alonso yesterday became the next in a long list of summer 2009 transfers made by Real Madrid in their effort to prevent Barcelona repeating their excellent treble of last season.
The £30million paid to Liverpool for Alonso takes the club’s summer spending beyond the sensible £200million mark for one summer – after having signed Kaka [...]

After 80 odd minutes of drudgery the other night (who would have thought it on Channel 5 after 9 o’clock – where were the warts and two headed babies?), Aalborg, the footballing dictionary table toppers (well, discounting 1fc Koln and others who start with a number anyway), managed to bury a shot in the [...]

After the Manchester City Kaka effort finally petered out this week, the world might just begin to view footballers as people inspired by things other than money. I mean, Steven Gerrard not going to Chelsea was one thing, but the boat wasn’t pushed out quite as far as half a million a week then was [...]

My word, how the world of football has changed. For all you City fans out there, I hope you’re learning the words to the Busta Rhymes song featured above – Arab Money – because you should be about to start singing it smugly at your endebted near-neighbours in Red quite soon. Coupled with a taunting [...]

Mid-week madness takes place tonight with a huge card of Barclays Premier League football matches taking place, which could well see some movement at both the top and the bottom of the table, with the following games taking place:

Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur – Kick Off @ 20:00
Aston Villa v Blackburn Rovers – Kick Off @ [...]

Watch the highlights from tonight’s tight match between Newcastle United and Manchester City at St James’ Park.
The match finished 2-2 after Robinho opened the scoring with a penalty on 13 minutes after the same player was brought down in the box – in an incident which saw Habib Beye sent off for what could easily [...]