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Today the fixtures of the new season got announced .   EPL Season: 2013-2014 Saturday 17 August 2013 15:00 Arsenal v Aston Villa                Emirates Stadium 15:00 Chelsea v Hull         ...

Matthew Glazier argues that Reading have just made a like-for-like replacement at the Madejski Stadium which will leave the fans confused. Nigel Adkins has been unveiled as the new manager of Reading FC, with the 48-year-old now attempting the almost ...

The last semifinalists of Euro 2012 is Italy. The Azzuri defeated the English after 120 minutes of scintillating football and 6 kicks from the penalty spot, the first goal-less draw in the tournament and the first game to be decided ...

The European Championships have now entered their final stages, after a historic group match stage which saw some major upsets, great goals and thrilling moments, with almost all games being major entertainers. This was the first ever time in EURO ...

Group D saw France take on Sweden and England meet co-hosts Ukraine in their final and deciding games. Sweden who were already out of the tournament after a disappointing campaign finally found their bearings and exited gracefully after destroying France ...

(Note/Update: This post was written on account on traditional footballing rules which take Goal Difference as the first tiebreaker in case of equal points in a group, which is how it is usually done. But today I came to know ...

Finally! England got a victory which was emphatic not just because Andy Carroll scored, but also because they held up against a tremendous onslaught by a valiant Sweden who fought till the very last minute, coming back from behind to ...

The “first round” of the league phase of Euro 2012 to decide the new European Champions is over, with all teams having played one group match each. The results have thrown all predictions off-track, with only one team, Germany, having ...

I had mentioned in an earlier post on my blog that Group D of the Euro 2012 is the “Anything-Could-Happen_Group”. And boy, did that come true! Yesterday we saw two matches being played out which drastically reaffirmed that this group ...

Again it is the late English fight back which wins another trophy for another English team. This time it’s Chelsea who displayed brilliant skills and rode on the shoulders of their favourite son Didier Drogba to snatch the Champions League ...