Archive for October, 2007

Lampard: England and Fans Not Important

Frank Lampard, the former fans’ favourite when playing for England, has experienced a run of poor form when representing his country. He has received a poor reception from the fans several times now, which has been met with fierce criticism from some sections of the media.

Lampard has said today that England are not important to him at the moment, and said he doesn’t care what the fans think of him.

“The England thing is not important to me at the moment. What is important is playing well for Chelsea,” he said.

“When you’re playing well and on top of your game, you’ve got a feeling of confidence. Then there are times during the season when you feel like you can’t put a pass straight.

“I’ve dropped below the standards I want to set in the past. What player doesn’t.

“I have nothing to prove. The more experience you get in football, the more you realise that you don’t take notice of what someone wants to say about you isn’t involved in football or is just a fan.”

Ballack Signed For Wrong Team

Manchester United were tipped to finish fourth at the start of last season and were desperately searching for a central midfielder. The reds were keen on signing Michael Ballack, but the German skipper turned United down for a big money move to Chelsea, earning £130,000 a week.

Manchester United settled for Tottenham’s Michael Carrick, but went on to win the Premiership regardless.

Meanwhile, Ballack had a rather ineffective season with Chelsea, making little impression on the London club.

Wantaway Chelsea striker, Didier Drogba, has today claimed that Ballack made the wrong decission when he signed for Chelsea.

“It is hard for Ballack - Chelsea is special,” he said.

“I’m convinced he would have had an easier time at Manchester United or Arsenal.

“They benefit from a well-balanced team - he would have been a better fit there.

“Here, we depend on our individuals so maybe Chelsea is not the right club for Ballack.”

I Am The Only World Class Keeper At Arsenal

Jens Lehmann was dropped early on this season after a string of poor performances and costly mistakes. Almunia , who has a long running feud with Lehmann has been giving the starting place, but the German keeper is not happy at all.

When speaking to German broadcaster, Premiere, Lehmann said, “it’s possible that some day I’ll feel like talking about the whole issue.

“But at the moment I’m just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation. That’s something one has to take in. But I think and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn’t humiliate players for too long.

“I’m an Arsenal player and I won’t just fade away quietly.”

As heated words have gone back and forth between the two Arsenal goalkeepers, Wenger tried to calm the situation by claiming all his goalkeepers were World class. Lehmann does not agree with this statement.

“Wenger spoke of three world class goalkeepers. One of them must be me. The other two have proved their class by winning titles? If I think about that, I can’t recall any. I guess today you’re nevertheless world class.”

“I’m convinced that I’ll be playing again. Almunia has not yet showed that he can win matches for us.

“I’ve experienced this situation before and know what the others are expecting from the goalkeeper. I can’t imagine he’ll be able to handle that.”

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Gerrard: The Biggest Hypocrite In English Football

Steven Gerrard has always been a player who is very quick to publically condemn all the sins of footballers. As fans, we want to see diving and badgering the referee kicked out of the game, and Gerrard has spoken about both of these football crimes in his autobiography.

The Liverpool captain has been labelled a hypocrite in the past, as whilst playing for club and country, he has been guilty of diving.

The Merseyside derby exposed Gerrard even further. Following the World Cup last summer, the England team was left fuming that Portugese players surrounded the referee and asked for Wayne Rooney to be sent off.

“Players like Carvalho are damaging football, not Wayne Rooney,” wrote Gerrard in his autobiography.

“It’s coached into them that when an incident like that happens, they go to work on the ref.

“Ronaldo was at the front. But the blame does not just rest with him. Five or six Portuguese players were at it.”

Gerrard won a penalty on Saturday’s derby, and when referee Mark Clattenburg pulled out a yellow card, the Liverpool captain ran over to the referee and protested.

The referee did as he was told, and Everton went down to ten men.

Is there no end to the hypocrisy of England’s vice-captain?

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United Told To Wait For Star

Manchester United have rectified their slow start to the season by winning their past six Premiership games in a row. To cement their good form, they are hoping to sign a 17 year old from Partizan Belgrade.

The player is worth around £7 million and several top clubs in Europe appear to be interested. However, the club have said they won’t be selling him until at least next summer.

“We must decide the pros and cons of selling Jovetic,” Partizan director Gordan Petric said.

“We will decide that at the end of the season. A lot of clubs are interested in him.”

No £100 million Chelsea Bid

Chelsea have struggled in both the Premiership and Champions League this season, and are trying to deal with the crushing blow of losing their manager.

As a way to resurrect their title hopes, it was reported Chelsea had made an £100 million bid for Kaka, who is deemed to be the World’s greatest footballer.

However, Milan have rejected these claims, saying that no such bid has been made and that the player is staying with them.

“Chelsea’s mega offer is a hoax,” vice-President Galliani told a press conference.

“No team has asked for him (Kaka) with the exception of Real Madrid and when they did, we kindly responded that the player is not for sale.”

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Van Persie: I Told You So

Despite being ruled out of competing for the title during the summer, Arsenal have surprised everyone, with a great start in the Premiership and Champions League.

One person who is not surprised is Arsenal striker Robin van Persie, who has enjoyed a great spell of form. He commented on Arsenal’s form, saying that he already knew how capable his club were.

“At the start of the season I said we will surprise - and everyone was laughing,” he said.

“Now 12 games into the season, everyone says, ‘Ooh, look at Arsenal, they are a good team’. This I knew before and my mind has not changed.

“I started training early this season with Theo [Walcott] and after, when the rest of the lads came back in, I saw a great togetherness and belief and big quality. This is what I saw day in, day out.

“If we can stay together we can do amazing stuff in the future. We are progressing every week we play.

“If we just play our normal game, not many teams can stop us. We can win trophies. Why not? This is our aim.”

Rafa: Don’t Blame Rotation For Poor Performance

Marseille will be over the moon with their result at Anfield last night, beating Liverpool 1-0. The club have struggled in their domestically, picking up just one win so far this season in Ligue 1.

Liverpool have picked up just one point in their two matches, leaving them third in the group, three points behind Porto, and five points behind Marseille.

Rafael Benitez, who has faced some criticism from his own fans over his rotation policy, last night claimed that the result have nothing to do with the fact he had changed five players from the weekend’s Premiership match.

“We couldn’t create many chances,” Benitez told Sky Sports. “We were not controlling the middle.

“After we conceded we created some chances at the end, but everything was wrong.

Ability

“You must give them (Marseille) credit because they were working hard, were well organised and were pressing and we were giving the ball away.

“We knew it could be like this with the players they have with pace and ability.

“We were trying to change players and trying to change positions. We were trying, but really the team was playing bad.”

“No,” said the Spanish tactician when asked whether shuffling his pack had an influence on the result.

“We are talking about big names before and we had some big names, but it’s not a problem. The team was not good enough.”