Sunday’s English Premier League clash was a nail biting affair which was won by United by 3-2. But, the match is now remembered for wrong reasons, i.e., for City’s Gareth Barry, who used abusive language to match official. English FA took the instance immediately and acted upon it. FA found the abuses were in contrary to its Rule E3, hence banned the footballer for one match. FA issued a statement and said, “Manchester City's Gareth Barry will serve a one-match suspension with immediate effect after admitting a breach of FA Rule E3 in that he used abusive and/or insulting words towards a match official following his side's match against Manchester United on Sunday 9 December 2012. Also as part of the standard penalty for this offence, Barry has been fined £8,000.” Consequently, Berry will not be a part of City’s squad against Newcastle United on Saturday. Actually, City was not happy with the way FA handled the case, but they have to accept the judgment of supreme governing body. … [Read more...]
Andy Carroll is Out for Eight Weeks
Injuries seem to be raining on this English Premier League where some of the finest soccer players are getting injured one after other. An injury to a star player has always been a blow for its team, especially if he has been hired on loan, coz then; player’s original owner loses him without any reason. Last Wednesday, in an EPL match between Manchester United and West Ham United, Hammers striker Andy Carroll got an unexpected knee injury which is likely to rule him out for eight weeks minimum. It could be a major blow for both: West Ham United and Liverpool, the owner of Carroll. This season, West Ham United hired him on loan from Liverpool where he joined after a mounting £35min fees in 2011. His twisted knee could take around two months to fully recover and to play him again for Ham United – hopefully. West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce has ruled out any possibility of him to play its next match against Chelsea on Saturday. He told to Sky Sports, “Andy Carroll's injury is pretty … [Read more...]
NBC is expected to get EPL’s broadcasting rights in US
EPL is surely the world’s most popular soccer league, and that’s why there are many front runners for its television broadcasting rights too. In US, EPL has been broadcasted by Fox and ESPN for almost two decades, but this year their combined bid has been rejected by EPL, so US viewers are all set to watch their favorite teams fighting on a new channel – probably NBC. The current broadcasting deal is to be expired this season, and for next season, EPL is inviting offers from various contenders for a new deal that would be for three years. EPL telecast was widely watched by US viewers on Fox; hence it is said to be a major loss for both ESPN and Fox sports to miss an extremely lucrative broadcasting deal. Expressing its disappointment, Fox said via a statement that “We were disappointed to learn today that English Premier League has elected to move forward with a different media partner despite FOX Sports Media Group's aggressive bid, FOX Soccer has been the primary US voice of EPL … [Read more...]
John Terry is still Chelsea’s captain, but after a huge fine
Roberto Di Matteo has taken another brave move by retaining John Terry as captain of Chelsea though after a hefty fine. The man in blue will again wear captain’s armband and enter in the field with full confidence as he had always been doing. There is no need to discuss again as to why he had become an untouchable in last few weeks for everybody, but Chelsea helped him in moving further in his life forgiving what happened in last few months to him. Notably, Terry has been found guilty of passing racial comments to Anton Ferdinand last year. That case has been concluded from FA’s end after imposing a mammoth 220,000 pounds as fine on him. Many consider Chelsea’s decision as full of error this time, but on the other side, Chelsea has issued a statement and clarified how it takes on FA decision, racial abuses, and the whole turnaround happened to him. Bruce Buck, the chairman of Chelsea, discussed Terry’s status via statement given to Associated Press that reads as, “John will continue to … [Read more...]
Big Fee Bounties are Running Football: Arsene Wenger
We have seen how millions of dollars have thrown by popular football clubs, having good financial back, to buy players from around the world. Last summer, transfer window showed what it could gain you if you are a young and promising soccer player. English premier league’s topmost team’s longest serving manger: Arsene Wenger has slashed on the clubs who are voluntarily throwing million of dollars to buy top players. According to him, this is ruining football coz at last football is going to suffer for all this. He gave an example of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club aka PSG who bought young nineteen years old Brazilian attacking midfielder Lucas Moura for £36 million. He calls it a crazy move by the club. Basically, according to him, this is the good era of soccer but this is not going to be lasted as it is now, coz big club’s giant sponsors are all concerned with their balance sheets at last, so they are encashing the rising popularity of soccer and its biggest branded players. … [Read more...]