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There is no mystery in Rafa Benitez's rush to the colours of Roman Abramovich. He has scarcely concealed his eagerness to return to the game.
But then nor should there be any surprise that Pep Guardiola, the oligarch's latest favourite football man, has for the moment at least chosen the stimulations of the Big Apple over the club whose treatment of Roberto Di Matteo must suggest for some a certain rottenness at its core.
Why, if you are a lord of the football universe, if you have credentials which give off an almost unearthly glow, would you consider for a second, serving an organisation which has proved so incapable of either understanding, and still less respecting, the nature of the challenge facing even the very best...
Barcelona are in, and Chelsea are almost out. Tuesday night saw a tale of two champions heading in opposite directions. For some the results will be cause for schadenfreude, particularly if you hail from the hamlet of Munich in... more »
A Premier League manager was fired in West London Wednesday morning. His highly paid players were underperforming. His team hadn't won a league game this month. And hours before, he had uttered those famous last words of the... more »
Rafael Benitez is flying into London to have an interview with Chelsea officials tonight and is expected to be named as the club’s new manager after Roberto di Matteo was sacked just six months into his reign. Benitez is... more »
Real Oviedo, a soccer team in the proud province of Asturias, is about 300 miles north of Madrid and about a million miles behind Real Madrid, the powerhouse that along with F.C. Barcelona defines Spanish soccer. Once a... more »
Germany was on the defensive in the second Great War. The final defeat inched nearer. Two weeks earlier, the 156,000 Allied troops on nearly 5,000 amphibious vehicles had landed in Normandy, France and began fighting their way... more »
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