Over the past four years Real Madrid have spent over £100 million on six Dutch players. Once all the rage at the Bernebeu, this week’s departures of Rafael van der Vaart and Royston Drenthe signal the end of Real Madrid’s Dutch experiment. Read more

The Footy Factor team unhooked themselves from their computers last week and enjoyed a well-earned holiday. A working holiday, of course!  (We bet you didn’t even notice we were out of the country.) Our team travelled to the land where Inca ruins dot the landscape, where guinea pig is considered a...

Transfer deadline day often fails to live up to its billing as the most exciting day of the summer session. The final day for clubs to roll the dice on new players ahead of the new season tends to come and go without intrigue. Yesterday was completely different…

‘Shock’ was the word of the weekend as Wigan finally bagged their first three points (against Tottenham!), Manchester City lost their first match (against Sunderland!), Arsenal muscled to victory (against Blackburn!) and Avram Grant lost another match (ok, so that’s not so surprising.) Read...

Despite another round of heavy spending by Manchester City, it’s been a relatively quiet summer in the transfer market all across Europe. But the prospect for one last big-money move is always a possibility – right up until the deadline on September 1st. It’s happened before…

The main defence for the arrival of billionaire owners like Roman Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour is that their deep pockets are good for the Premier League. A cursory glance at this summer’s transfer activity underscores that point. With Mario Balotelli, David Silva and Jerome Boateng touching down...

Prior to the World Cup, Fabio Capello’s no nonsense approach was all the rage. Following England’s humiliation in South Africa things have changed. Not only is Capello now the most hated man in English football but even the bigwigs at Club England are starting to doubt the appointment of...

What an amazing week in the world of Premiership football: Chelsea continue to steamroll the opposition, Manchester City’s millionaires throw down an early season marker, Spurs stutter to victory over Stoke and Newcastle United joined the party by hitting Aston Villa for six. Read more

The Premiership isn’t a poor man’s game. The league is littered with wealthy owners and almost as wealthy players. As players wages have skyrocketed in recent years so too have ticket prices to watch the world’s most famous stars. No longer can you get in any of the top flight grounds...

Whenever there is a Brazilian superstar at the crossroads of his career, you can be sure Pele is not far away. The Godfather of Brazilian football who has poked his nose in the business of Adriano, Ronaldo (the fat one) and Robinho in the past, has now set his sights on Neymar da Silva Santos Junior,...