Barclays Premier League – 10 things you may not know

To commemorate the first Premier League club in bankruptcy protection, Get Stuck In made up a list of 10 trivia questions about the Premier League so the next time you are asked to name a random fact, don’t say we didn’t help you out – 1. Ryan Giggs of Manchester United is the only player who [...]

Editor Op-Ed: Money – the dark side of football

Portsmouth, founded in 1898, becomes the first Premier League club to enter bankruptcy protection – called administration in Britain – because its current owners (and numero quattro this season) cannot clear its $105 million debt. So what went wrong that caused this 112-years-old institution – a year removed from winning the FA Cup – to crumble [...]

FA Cup exit spells the end for the Rafa Benitez era at Anfield?

Liverpool’s troubled season took another turn for the worse when it was eliminated from the FA Cup after second-tier Reading triumphed 2-1 in their third-round replay on Wednesday. The only trophy Liverpool can realistically win is the Europa League, with Rafa Benitez’s side out of the Champions League and languishing in seventh in the Premier [...]

AP: MU to refinance debt with bond sale

United said Monday it hoped to raise 500 million pounds ($808 million) from the issue of the seven-year bonds, which could pay off a majority of the debt burden incurred by Malcolm Glazer’s 2005 takeover of English football’s most famous team.

“Blow Me F$$k Face” – Great moment in Liverpool F.C. history

Ah, Liverpool.  This is where our story began yesterday when the Liverpool Echo ran an op-ed, charging that the team is being stingy and selling off its players to bring that debt down.  An overly concerned Liverpool fan Stephen Horner forwarded that piece from the Liverpool Echo the ill-advisedly public email addresses of Hicks Jr. and few [...]

A TRU DAT! moment with Arsene Wenger

On Wednesday night, the youngsters of Emirates Stadium could move to within a point of leaders Chelsea by beating relegation-battlers Bolton. Since being smoked by as much as 11 points back in November, Arsenal has racked up 5 wins out of six league games while Chelsea and yours truly MU continue to sputter. Wenger, though, [...]

Gerrard – Can I buy your loyalty for – says – £40 million?

Daily Star Sunday reported that Steve G – my friend Abhi’s favorite player - is being linked to Jose Mourinho for £40 million. Now, the Inter boss believes that Gerrard could be tempted away from Anfield should the Reds fail to qualify for next season’s Champions League, and may see his next challenge as playing abroad. That’d be [...]

War of the Roses 2010 Renewal

Any game day is a special day. A rivalry game? Well, that’s just a 90-minutes orgasm. Winning a rivalry game not only confer upon you the win itself but the irrefutable right of relentless trash-talking to your oh-not-so-fortunate supporters on the other side. Recently, with the Age of Billionaire in the Premier League, we Red Devils [...]