Apologies this is a bit late now, but this is the Footy Blog impression of what would happen if the Premiership was to meet the Olympics…
Feel free to make your own suggestions of potential football-athletes by leaving a comment at the bottom of the post.
Weightlifting
The Premiership weightlifter has to be Mr. Muscles himself, Yossi [...]
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With the transfer deadline just a couple of hours away, today is sure to be a very busy day and already there have been numerous rumours and signings made.
As reported a few days back, Tottenham Hotspur have made a move for Manchester City right back Vedran Corluka. It was thought that Corluka would have been [...]
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Manchester City have re-signed Shaun Wright Phillips from Chelsea for an undisclosed fee on a 4 year contract. Wright Phillips left City in July 2005 to join Chelsea for £21 million. No doubt Chelsea will have made a massive loss from signing Shaun in the first place, hence the undisclosed fee.
Wright Phillips’ career had been [...]
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Most football fans get annoyed when their club signs or sells a player with an undisclosed fee. But by looking at some of the transfers of the summer, the majority of them involve undisclosed fees. So why do so many clubs insist on not disclosing the true figure of the transfer, especially as they must [...]
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Nemanja Vidic loves the English weather, the English lifestyle, and just about everything else England has to offer. This is according to Russian football magazine ‘Football Weekly’.
One of the most interesting quotes attributed to the Serbian defender has to be this one:
“In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. Its main attraction [...]
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James Milner was on top form for Newcastle last night as they beat Coventry City 3-2 in the Carling Cup, but the young English winger doesn’t see his future being at Newcastle and so has decided to hand in a transfer request. This news will no doubt be frowned upon by Keegan and all the [...]
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Not many confirmed transfers in the past few days, the only one worth reporting about is Jacobsen signing on a 1 year deal at Everton, which hardly sounds exciting. Jacobsen is a Denmark international defender, and becomes Everton’s first and probably only signing of the summer. And the fact that he’s been signed on a [...]
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Roy Keane’s summer signings don’t appear to have ended with the news that West Ham have accepted an £8 million offer for the 23 year old central defender.
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