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Big welcome to 6ft 8 inch Serbian striker Nikola Zigic, who this week joined Birmingham for £6m, allowing headline writers up and down the country several early nights next season as they recycle their old Peter Crouch giant-related headlines. But feel for the poor ‘news’ journalists who have filled countless column inches with stories of [...]
It should in theory be everything we stand against here at Sport without Spin. If there is value in having an insightful analyst, a unique perspective that can only be developed through the course of a lifetime playing the game, then how do you explain Chris Kamara? Here he is in action on the weekend’s [...]
When you see an article like this in the Sun, what do you think the story the following day will be?
July 16th - Everton in £1.5m tug of Torre
EVERTON are vying with Real Mallorca and Real Zaragoza for Spanish defender Marc Torrejon.
David Moyes is ready to pay £1.5million to the 23-year-old’s club Espanyol.
With [...]
With Steve Bruce having shown himself a canny operator in the transfer market in recent years, most notably plucking Wilson Palacios from obscurity in Honduras for an undisclosed fee that would have been far less than the £14m he was sold on for to Tottenham. Since he moved to Sunderland on a promise of greater [...]
There’s nothing like getting over-excited by a successful amateur boxer - especially an amateur Olympian boxer - after a couple of pro fights. It really was this very decade, for example, that Audley Harrison, on the cusp of his professional career, was all set to make £35m from endorsements and build a huge legacy in [...]
Does anybody take any series of words spoken about football seriously? It dawned on us as the Chairman of Chelsea, Bruce Buck, finally said something on the record and official about the plans for the new season, and particularly about their managerial plans. As we ran the rule over the words, however, we noticed how [...]
Carlo Ancelotti commands great respect within European football, primarily because he’s won every important club competition going. His record and reputation is second to very few in Europe, so it’s understandable that the clubs most desperately striving for a change to achieve such success would take a close look at what he could offer. Where [...]
Laughing at the work of some members of the research community is all too easy a pursuit at times but sometimes there’s just no way to stop oneself. The Sun, bastions of research themselves, have found some news from the academic world which will change the face of football forever:
SOCCER aces prone to fluffing penalties [...]
