The UEFA Champions League draw was made today and it has drawn up some pulsating encounters. Of the English sides in the fray, Cash-rich Manchester Ciy making it’s first appearance in the Champions League has no doubt the toughest group.Manchester City is drawn alongside Bayern Munich, Villarreal and Napoli. Bayern and Villareal will give a tough test for ManC and Napoli are no pushovers either. So in Manchester Ciy’s perpective ,they certainly should be thinking that they are in the Group of death.But we still believe that Manchester City have …

English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers sold to an Indian comapany. Paul Egerton-Vernon, chairman of Blackburn’s trustees who completed the deal said-”We are very pleased to be passing on the Rovers to the Rao family”. Venky’s the new owner bought the club in a 23 million pound deal. Venky’s have become the first Indian concern to own a Premier League side. The Rao family has an extensive range of business interests in India which includes their flagship company Venkateshwara Hatcheries. The company was established in 1976 and was mainly into poultry business. Later on it diversified into health care products, pet food, oil extraction etc. With this $36.66 million deal Venkys stepped into another area-Sports and entertainment.

A month of EPL and it looks like that the top 3 is going to be the same-Chelsea,ManU and Arsenal. While Chelsea has been off the blocks in a more than splendid fashion, ManU have faltered in the first few games,drawing 2 of the first 4 games
Big spending Manchester City have been a big disappointment at the start of the season,winning just one of their games. Roberto Mancini’s tactics of playing 3 men at the defensive mid fielders in every game so far has hardly worked for Manchester City. True …

                                           Jose Mario dos Santos Felix Mourinho is a Portuguese name very familiar in the football world. Mourinho born in 1963 was the son of portuguese footballer and started his career as a football player. But later switched his profession to managing clubs and now one of the most envied managers in the world. He is got a nick name “The Special One“, self proclaimed.Mourinho started his new passion as an assistant coach under the veteran Sir Bobby Robson in the portuguese club FC Porto.This was in early 90′s. …

Yet another fabulous tournament came to end with sunday’s grand finale and soccer city witnessed a fine competition between Spain and Netherlands. It was suspense till 116th minute when Andres Iniesta scored the winning goal for spain. Till then the expectation was a penalty shoot out or even a sudden death as both Iker Casillas & Maarten Stekelenberg where doing perfect job. The game witnessed as much as 12 yellow cards and a red card as a result of 2 yellows to John Heitinga. If you would have watched the game you surely have felt the tension in the air and it produced 3 yellows card within first ten to fifteen minutes. The climax gave a feel like Spain was destined to win. Both teams missed a handfull of chances. Remarkable ones among them are Sergio Ramo’s header, Arjen Robbens’ was blocked by Casillas twice, Villa also lost a few chances. After the Spain squad kissed the cup, there came the golden fifa awards. Golden shoe, ball, glove where awarded to Thomas Muellar, Diego Forlan, Iker Casillas respectively. Muellar also got the Best Young player of the tournament award.