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What Kind Of Club Do Arsenal Want To Be?
Fresh off their worst league season in two decades, a disappointing Champions League campaign that, as it always seems to these days, ended with Bayern Munich pantsing them in front of the entire world, and coming off the most fervent instances of fan unrest due to the club’s sustained and arguably ...
Chelsea Cancel Victory Parade In Light Of Terrorist Attack In Manchester
Newly crowned Premier League champions Chelsea planned to hold a parade this weekend to celebrate their title, but have decided today to cancel the event due to fears about security following the bombing of Manchester Arena on Monday....
Sad Saga Of David Moyes Continues As Manager Quits Sunderland Job
It’s hard not to look at the picture above, taken during Sunderland’s loss to Middlesbrough last month that all but sealed the Black Cats’ relegation, and not see in David Moyes’s pained, crinkled face a man wondering where it all went wrong. It was only three seasons ago when Moyes landed his dream...
Liverpool And Manchester City Smashed Their Opponents And Killed Arsenal<em></em>
The Premier League’s game of musical chairs for a spot in the top four, the only remaining bit of intrigue coming into today’s league-ending round of matches, only gave us about 45 minutes of real drama. It was a good 45 minutes, though, and for the first time in forever, the music has stopped and A...
Ross Barkley's Standoff With Everton Makes No Sense
On paper, Ross Barkley and Everton should be the perfect marriage of player and club. On one side you have a young player who drips with talent and potential playing for an ambitious, relatively big club that offers him all the minutes and patience and care he could ask for in hopes that he reaches ...
Cesc Fàbregas On Chelsea Winning EPL Title: "Football Is Fucking Unbelievable"
For the second consecutive season, Chelsea scored the goal that determined the winner of the Premier League. Last year, it was Eden Hazard getting one against Tottenham to crown Leicester City champions. This time, Chelsea made themselves champions thanks to Michy Batshuayi’s late goal against West ...
Behold, The Most Blatant Handball Of The Year
Chelsea need to beat West Brom this afternoon to clinch the Premier League, but if Jonny Evans keeps this up, forget it. Late in the first half, Evans escaped Cesc Febregas’s pressure with a straight-up karate chop on the ball and he got away with it. ...
Manchester United's Champions League Charge Is Admirable And Ballsy
This Premier League season had so much promise. A veritable murderers’ row of superstar managers—Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho and Antonio Conte joining a league that already had Jürgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino and oh yeah I guess Arsène Wenger still counts—overseeing a handful of huge, rich,...
Cesc Fàbregas Really Does Have Eyes In The Back Of His Head
If you’ve ever wondered how the world’s most spatially aware players always seem to know exactly where everyone is on the pitch at all times, then this video of Cesc Fàbregas and his rubber neck should go a long way towards explaining that yes, these guys truly can see everything at all times:...
UK Tax Authorities Raid West Ham And Newcastle
Newcastle’s addiction to buying French players has finally caught up with the club. DeAndre Yedlin’s soon-to-be promoted club and Premier League club West Ham are both the subject of an investigation by the HM Revenue and Customs office, the UK’s tax authority, for alleged tax fraud. Newcastle boss ...
Premier League Player Banned 18 Months For Betting On Over 1,000 Soccer Matches
Burnley midfielder and one-time England international Joey Barton has been banned from soccer for 18 months by the F.A. today after an investigation revealed he had bet on 1,260 matches from 2006 to 2013, including at least five games in which he himself played. Barton released a statement owning up...
Alexis Sánchez Breaks Tie For Arsenal With Extra-Time Goal
Alexis Sánchez broke a 1-1 tie for Arsenal with a beautiful goal in extra-time against Manchester City in today’s semifinals of the FA Cup. With the win, Arsenal will now face Chelsea in the final....
Report: Knee Injury Will Keep Zlatan Ibrahimović Out For Rest Of Season
Zlatan Ibrahimović, Manchester United’s ageless striker, hyperextended his knee in yesterday’s Europa League match against Anderlecht. It looked like a bad injury in live time, and indeed it appears it was: Sky Sports is reporting that the injury is likely to end Ibrahimović’s season early....
Of Course Arsenal Want To Give Glass-Boned Jack Wilshere A New Contract
Last weekend, Jack Wilshere did what Jack Wilshere always does: get injured. This time (like last time) it’s a fibula fracture, and it has ended his season. In response, Arsenal are reportedly set to do what Arsenal always do: give yet another inflated contract to a guy who can’t stay healthy....
English Soccer Fans Learn Their Club Will Be Promoted To Premier League, Lose Their Minds<em></em>
Twenty years ago, English soccer club Brighton and Hove Albion were languishing in the fourth and lowest tier of the English Football League pyramid, at risk of losing their place in the league altogether. On Monday, they sealed their spot in the Premier League, and next season they’ll play in the t...
Will Falling Out Of The Top Four Be Enough To Bring Change To Arsenal?<em></em>
Now seems like as good a time as any to call it, even if it’s not out of the realm of possibility just quite yet: For the first time in 21 years, and the first time in Arsène Wenger’s incredibly long and storied career in England, Arsenal will not finish in the top four....
Everton Star Ross Barkley Got Punched Out At Liverpool Bar In "Unprovoked Attack"
Everton’s Ross Barkley was attacked at a bar last night in a scrap the midfielder’s lawyer claims was “unprovoked.” In the above video of the incident, you can see Barkley calmly talking with another man before the man starts swinging on Barkley seemingly out of nowhere....
Chelsea Training Features Sack-Tapping, Shit-Wrecking Hijinks
David Luiz and Diego Costa are, by all physical appearances, large adult men. Judging them by their behavior, though, you’d think they were mentally somewhere between the ages of 4 and 13. For evidence of this, here is Luiz whacking teammate John Terry in the nuts for fun:...
Zlatan Ibrahimović And His Mountain-Sized Ego Give A Great Interview
As everyone should know by now, Zlatan Ibrahimović’s arrogance is unreal. For more proof, take the short interview above, in which the big Swede declares himself a lion, explains why he doesn’t compare himself to the other strikers in the Premier League by saying “lions, they don’t compare themselve...