Buzzin Football

As we are about to start the new Premier League season, many pundits are giving their predictions for the top three and the bottom three.
For me, the three teams that came up from the Coca-Cola Championship, Hull City, Stoke City and West Brom, are favourites to go straight back down and be relegated come next [...]

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For the past three years I have started the new football season off with a pre-season accumulator bet where I dream of a big payout in return for predicting the winners of the English Premier League, Coca-Cola Championship, League One, League Two and the Blue Square Premier Conference.
Last year I was pretty close with Chelsea, [...]

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It’s looking more likely that Gareth Barry will play for Villa in tonight’s UEFA game against FH Hafnarfjordur rendering him cup tied in all European cups till February, and putting the boot, finally, into the second longest transfer saga of the summer.
Hicks and Gillette must be secretly hoping for Barry to play this evening, and [...]

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Referee Strike Means Players Will Have to Call Their Own Fouls
- a tongue-in-cheek satirical look at one of the stories that failed to make the papers

After “constant abuse, threats and a lack of gratitude for the job they do,” head referee Keith Hackett has announced that next season there will be no officials for top [...]

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Former Chelsea and Newcastle manager Ruud Gullit has quit as coach of USA team LA Galaxy, citing personal reasons for his resignation.
Gullit says that his family is unable to settle in LA, and wants time out of football to ponder his next move.
Despite the presence of David Beckham in the team, LA Galaxy have failed [...]

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