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...

Man for man, there’s perhaps no stronger side in the world than Spain – even at the club level. Xavi. Iniesta. Fabregas. Torres. Villa. Puyol. Pique. (Need we go further?) These are the kind of players who love to play with the ball at their feet. They are lethal on the counter attack....

Forget about Terry and Carvalho. Spare me the case of Lucio and Samuel. Keep Puyol and Pique to yourself. The most successful defensive partnership in Europe is plying its trade at the Amsterdam Arena. Who are they?

Small town clubs dominated football during the 1960s and 1970s. That was the case throughout the continent, but it was especially true in France. If French club football has been all about Lyon over the past decade, then Ligue 1 in the 20th century belonged to one club and one club only: AS...

Since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, four clubs have enjoyed Premiership title winning honours – Arsenal four times, Blackburn once, Chelsea twice and Manchester United eleven times. Despite Liverpool threatening last season and Manchester City impressing this term, this year’s...

2010 is on the horizon and it’s safe to say that it’s been a wonderful decade for football. We here at Footy Factor have taken the opportunity to celebrate the greatest teams, players, and matches of the past 10 years.  Our next award is…

Chelsea have been the early season pace-setters, beating Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United on their way to the summit. Up until a week ago many pundits thought the Premiership title was on its way to West London. But things change very quickly in football. Having seen their first shot at silverware...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will grace World Cup 2010 after all. Nervous chatter of the two greatest players on the planet missing next summer’s showpiece evaporated when Portugal and Argentina finally squeezed through the qualifiers at the last hurdle. But some football stars weren’t so fortunate...

What would you do with a bottomless transfer kitty? It was a question reserved for fantasy football enthusiasts until Roman Abramovich acquired Chelsea in 2003. Five summers later, Sheikh Mansour got into the game as the new owner of Manchester City. Here’s how each billionaire’s first eleven...

The Road to Rio Forget about 2010 when the England team will be crap, too old, still hindered by the Lamps-Gerrard conundrum. Let’s fast forward to 2014 when the Three Lions will have a real shot at the cup… Following the disappointment of narrowly losing to France in the final of Euro 2012,...