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The FA Girls’ Football Week & UEFA Women’s Euros 2017
Girls’ Football Week This weekend will mark the start of The FA Girls’ Football Week, which will run from 16th July until 6th August 2017. The event coincides with the UEFA Women’s Euros which also kicks off on the same day. Making this the ideal time for females to get involved with the beautiful game that […]
ARSENAL TARGET GABRIEL PAULISTA – 5 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW
Subject to work permit clearance, 24-year-old Villarreal defender Gabriel Paulista will sign for Arsenal this week in a deal worth £15m. Arsene Wenger seems to have got his man, but did you know these little nuggets about the Brazilian? 1 – Paulista was born in Sao Paulo on 26th November 1990 to middle class parents, […]
100 CAP ROONEY – AN OPPORTUNITY LOST
Wayne Rooney. Rarely has an England international polarised opinion in such a way. This week the Manchester United captain will enter the pantheon of players to reach 100 England caps, and on that basis should be elevated by the media to the level of hero-worship recently enjoyed by fellow centurions Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard […]
ALAN PARDEW – THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE
The signs have been lost, the chants have died out and the knives pressed to Alan Pardew’s neck have been taken away. For the man at the helm of Newcastle United, these past few weeks have been sweet vindication. They’re a proud bunch, the Toon army, and rightly so. Their club is one of the […]
Portsmouth Unveil WW1 Tribute Football Shirt
Portsmouth Football Club have honoured every member of the ‘Pompey Pals’ who fell during World War One by including their name on the football clubs new home kit. The Pompey Pals, the 14th and 15th battalions of the Hampshire Regiment, recruited heavily at Fratton Park. They went on to suffer heavy losses at the Great […]