Buzzin Football

I have just returned from a great pre-season holiday in Turkey where I mainly spent my days around the pool or in bars chatting to football fans about the new season.
There was a devout Geordie fan with his twin 10 year old nephews, one in a Newcastle top the other in a Sunderland top! We [...]

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The Community Shield match took place at Wembley on Sunday, the traditional curtain raiser to the new season ended with the usual controversy that a Chelsea v Manchester United tends to throw up.
Manchester United with Nani in the role of tormentor, dominated the first half hour of the game and fittingly it was the Portugese [...]

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Spanish football is mourning the loss of Espanyol captain Daniel Jarque who died in his hotel room in Italy where the team were on a pre-season tour on the 8th August.
Jarque had earlier taken part in the teams afternoon training session and was left by his room mate at the hotel, talking to his girlfriend [...]

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Jose Mourinho has more to say about the Premier League than he did when he worked in England, but he is still as amusing. This time he has alleged that Chelsea increased the asking price of Deco and Carvalho by £5million each player as soon as they know the old Chelsea coach is interested. Part [...]

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Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar has been ruled out of the start of the Premier League season after breaking a finger and bone in his left hand – making a penalty save in the Audi Cup Tournament against Bayern Munich.
Van der Sar is expected to be side lined for 7 or 8 weeks [...]

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