The Footie Fool

This is a beauty find by J at OOT…or could this be one of the most clever April Fool’s jokes even created by a Canadian soccer fan? Sadly, it doesn’t appear to be a joke.
The photo op of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and ENGLAND midfielder Owen Hargreaves was taken in London, where Harper is [...]

Rumour out of England this morning is that ‘arry Redknap is hot for Julian de Guzman. De Guzman’s contract with Deportivo is over at the end of season and, considering the problems he has had with Deportivo and his contract recently, and the financial mess that Deportivo is in, you can expect that there is [...]

David Edgar is an eager young man. Reports from Newcastle have the 21 year old Canadian defender pushing hard to either see more first team action with the Magpies or a deal to get him to a team where he can.
It has to be exceptionally frustrating for a guy like David, who has Geordie blood [...]

It looks like the rumblings about David Edgar going out on loan from Newcastle to Burnley/Ipswich have not come to fruition. The loan deadline came and went last night with no move for the 21 year old Edgar. With 5 appearances for the Magpies, it looks like Edgar will be stuck playing mostly reserve team [...]

November 27, 2008 update: I am on crack. As noted by Keepie-Uppie in the comments section, I am mixing Championship sides Burnley’s and Barnsley’s.
Maybe it is because another Burnley Canuck Iain Hume has been in the news so much lately that interest in both Burnley and Canadian soccer players is fueling rumors and speculation. (Silly [...]

Bad news for Iain Hume. The Footy Blog and the Ottawa Citizen are both reporting the Canadian international and Barnsley striker is back in hospital after reporting that he was feeling ill Monday night. It was just on Friday that Hume did an interview with the BBC where he said that felt optimistic about returning [...]

A report in the Daily Mail has linked Canadian defender Paul Stalteri (currently out of favour at Spurs with new boss Juande Ramos) to Portsmouth. The deal would see Stalteri go to Pompey on loan from Tottenham.
Whatever happens, two things seem clear to me. One is that Stalteri is on the move. There has [...]

Rob Styles made more than one bad call Sunday in the Liverpool Chelsea match. It wasn’t a penalty, and we all know that thanks to the benefit of replay after replay from 15 different angles. But by going public with it and forcing the league to punish him by sending him down to the lower [...]