http://soccer.fanboom.com Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:47:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Arsenal started the day in top spot and were expected to crush Hull City at The Emirates. Football though has a habit of bringing you back to Earth, the visitors doing so by winning 2 - 1. It did not seem that it would be the case when Cesc Fabregas ... http://soccer.fanboom.com/general/premier-league-matchday-six.html Chelsea entertained Manchester United at Stamford Bridge, the scene last season of alleged racial abuse leading to a contretemps between United players and Chelsea groundstaff, disciplinary action still sitting gathering cobwebs at the FA Headquarters. This time, the trouble was on the pitch, seven United players cautioned triggering an automatic ... http://soccer.fanboom.com/general/premier-league-matchday-five.html ROAD TO ROME – CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MATCHDAY 1 GROUP A All roads lead to Rome so the old saying goes but for AS Roma the pressure of being the club whose ground will host the 2009 final proved too much to bear in their encounter with CFR Cluj-Napoca of Romania. Christian Panucci ... http://soccer.fanboom.com/english-premier-league/manchester-united/champions-league-matchday-1.html The leaders went into the weekend level on points, both facing Mancunian opposition. Liverpool met fire with fire at Anfield, defeating Manchester United 2 - 1 to briefly claim top spot. Dimitar Berbatov's debut turned out to be a damp squib despite setting up Carlos Tevez for the opener with ... http://soccer.fanboom.com/general/premier-league-matchday-four.html Manchester United's match against Fulham was a casualty as the Champions League winners crashed to defeat in Monaco against Zenit St Petersburg in the European Super Cup final. Sir Alex Ferguson consoled himself by going shopping, his mood brightened by finding a Dimitar Berbatov on the shelf, looking all upset ... http://soccer.fanboom.com/general/premier-league-matchday-three.html If the opening day of the season went pretty much to form, the book was ripped up and thrown out of the window in the season's second weekend. Having habitually failed to get their due reward on trips to Fratton Park, Manchester United took three deserved points from Portsmouth with ... http://soccer.fanboom.com/english-premier-league/manchester-united/premier-league-matchday-two.html The 2008/09 campaign kicked off with the top three from last season all at home, all avoiding defeat. Arsenal set the ball rolling with the lunchtime kick-off against last season's Championship title winners, West Bromwich Albion. Having been relatively inactive during the summer transfer window, The Gunner's major signing, Samir ... http://soccer.fanboom.com/general/premier-league-review-matchday-one.html Reports in the English media have focussed on the possible transfer of Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham to Manchester United. Suppositions were posited that the Premier League champions had agreed a fee in excess of £20m for the Bulgarian international but these have turned out to be false with no price ... http://soccer.fanboom.com/english-premier-league/manchester-united/berbatov-a-barcelona-target-but-what-of-etoo.html The departure of Mathieu Flamini left a hole in the Arsenal midfield; that gap became bigger yesterday as Panathinaikos agreed to buy Gilberto Silva from The Gunners. It means a shortage of experience within the defensive department at The Emirates. Amongst Arsene Wenger's squad, he has a number of youthful ... http://soccer.fanboom.com/english-premier-league/gilberto-departure-leaves-vacancy-in-arsenal-midfield.html With Ronaldinho's move to AC Milan all but confirmed, it seems that the barrier to a number of summer moves has been released. Barcelona held the key to three transfers and within twenty-four hours, there has been confirmation that the end-game in two of them approaches. Firstly, AC Milan agreed ... http://soccer.fanboom.com/english-premier-league/milan-and-barcelona-open-the-transfer-floodgates.html