Premier League

Micah Richards will be playing his football for Aston Villa next season having run down his contract with Manchester City and it looks as if the defeated FA Cup finalists may have got themselves a handsome bargain. Reports in the Guardian suggest the Villans managed to keep Everton and West … Read more

Mauricio Pochettino guiding Tottenham to a fifth-place finish in his first season in charge, one better than the Andre Villas-Boas/Tim Sherwood combination the term before, but with five points fewer than his predecessors neatly summarises Spurs’ inconsistencies. Having not dealt in the business of mere summary for some time, news.bwin.com … Read more

For United Kingdom-based football fans who don’t possess a satellite dish Lionel Messi has long been more myth than man. Glimpses of his majesty are limited to the rare occasions when Barcelona play an English side in the terrestrially televised Champions League, or the rarer still cases of him shining … Read more

Branislav Ivanovic’s second winning goal in just over a week opened the floodgates on a deluge of praise that has been welling up for seasons. Having described the Serb as one of Chelsea’s best signings ever, Jose Mourinho was full of admiration or the manner in which his right back … Read more

Diego Costa is in the dock after stamping all over Liverpool pair Martin Skrtel and Emre Can in Chelsea’s Capital One Cup semi-final second leg win, although Blues boss Jose Mourinho insists that Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp is conducting a ‘campaign’ against him and the club. We’re not usually … Read more

Ander Herrera has outperformed two of last season’s most feted midfielders this term, despite playing half as many matches.

Numerous similarities and differences arose but could repeating the feat be beyond Chelsea’s control?

Amidst much fawning over their goal-drenched home wins the Citizens’ rearguard has gone uncelebrated.

A box-to-box midfielder and irrepressible dribbler more reminiscent of Vieira than Makelele.