Football 2.0

Crowdpower comes to football, at Ebbsfleet United the fans own the club and vote on decisions via the internet - www.myfootballclub.co.uk, it seems to make sense and has achieved good results so far, will be intersting to see if they make it into the Football League this...

2008/09 Champions League group stage draw

There's some new names in this years competition with FC Bate and Aalborg among them. Manchester United have been handed a fairly easy draw and an interesting clash with Celtic. Liverpool and Arsenal are a bit more tricky, but with the top two going through you would expect...

Leeds 4-0 Crystal Palace

Cracking win for Leeds, they seem to be doing well so far in this comp, if they can translate this to the League even better. Goals from, Douglas, Beckford, and two from Becchio, put Leeds into the third round of the League Cup."Rampant League One Leeds crushed stuttering...

Shevchenko returns to Milan

What a complete waste of time for one of the worlds best strikers, he's getting on a bit now, might have a bit left in him, but it just goes to show that you should never let the owner of a football club, however much money they've got get involved with buying players, stick...

English League One: Yeovil Town 1 - Leeds United 1

A great start to the match with the Argentine Luciano Becchio scoring in the first minute, but Yeovil equalise in the 62nd with a penalty, Casper Ankergren saved it but Owusu scored the rebound. Plenty of bookings too, four for each side. Two points dropped away from home for...

Chester 2-5 Leeds

Great win for Leeds over Chester, Jermain Beckford firing in three, very unlikely they'll go all the way in this tournament but feels like they are making a good start, and will boost confidence for the season ahead hopefully."Chester 2-5 Leeds ...

Six degrees of separation theory is correct

The six (or seven) degrees of separation no longer appears to be a myth now it's been proven by Microsoft in a study of 30 billion text messages, but I guess the chaps at Facebook already know this. It's quite a thought that you can be connected anyone else on the planet so...

Leeds United secure services of Luciano Becchio

Out goes Curtis Weston as Argentinian Lucian Becchio comes in for Leeds, having played for Barcelona, Real Mallorca and Boca Juniors as a striker sounds impressive enough, maybe a bit of Latin influence is what Leeds needs (however Roque Junior was a disaster), but this...

Barry George cleared of Dando murder

Barry George accused of murdering Jill Dando in 1999, has been found not guilty in a retrial at the Old Bailey, having spent 8 years in prison. He has always insisted he was innocent. There were doubts over the scientific evidence of the speck of gun residue which convicted...