Monday Madness!

Torres wins chance to train with Drogba!

Chelsea striker Fernando Torres was at the end of a joke at Didier Drogba's Foundation charity ball when the winner of a training session with the Ivorian offered to donate it to the Spanish striker.  

My foot hurts!

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson experienced a night of horrors on and off the pitch - his team were beaten 3-2 by Athletic Bilbao, and an electronic substitutions board fell on his leg.

My head hurts!

It's astonishing when any player scores five goals in one game - but Lionel Messi's record-breaking Champions League haul was made even more impressive after it emerged he was suffering from a headache beforehand. 

Save the frogs!

Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-Sung has been asked to put his weight behind a campaign to protect frogs in South Korea. 

Footballer sues church as life with God costs him chance to be a Devil!

A former Portuguese Division Three player is suing the evangelical church which he claims cost him the chance to play for Manchester United. Arquimedes Nganga, 46, is seeking £10million damages from the Baptist Union as he claims that, had the church not turned him into a ‘fervent evangelist’ he would have been good enough to play for the Red Devils. The 46-year-old, who has accused the leaders of the Baptist Union of causing him ‘psychological harm’, said: ‘I could definitely have had a long career in the Premier League. ‘I see a lot of players today who I am not inferior to and perhaps better than. ‘Most midfielders are either defensive or attacking but I was both. I had something new.’ Manchester United have yet to comment. 

Torres doesn't even want to score!

Goal-shy striker Fernando Torres gave the clearest indication yet that he's severely lacking in confidence after it emerged he turned down the chance to take a penalty in Chelsea's 2-0 FA Cup win over Birmingham. In our first ever Monday Madness we saw Bury's Schumacher and Coke arguing and fighting over a penalty. This was the total opposite.

Vt football announce euro 2012 coverage!

Vt football can today confirm that they will be writing previews and match reports of euro 2012 games througout the tourdement enjoy! Also vt football will be doing weekly round ups of how its going so if you need a catch up during euro 2012 look no further than vt footbal!

Team knowlege test week 3

This week we test your knowlege on manchester united!

Who wears the number 10 for united?
Did they win the league last season?

What was the score when they played man city at home in the league this season?

Who is their current manager

What is the name of their stadium?

Team scouting report week 2

This week we take a look at mark hughes' Qpr who aim to avoid relegation


Best starting line up
Kenny
Onouha
Hill
Ferdinand
Tiwo
Wright phillips
Barton
Diakite
Taarbat
Zamora
Cisse / Macheda

Key players for the vital run in

1. Bobby Zamora
His performances at fulham where top class if he can produce the same performances at rangers he chould keep them up

2. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Swp hasnt really lived up to his expectation since he joined qpr in the summer but if he can peform anywhere near his best he might offer rangers a chance of survival

3. Joey Barton
Joey is another player yet to play to well for rangers but he's showen in sparks this season what he can do

The boss
Mark hughes
The welshman took over in january and made seven january buys he needs to help them gell now. It will be one of the hardest few months of his career.

Can they stay up
Yes! With the players they have and the creativity qpr are probably the favourits to stay up but the team needs to gell but there is so many players in the squad who are never involved in matches such as Bothroyd Cambell
Helguson and more will that prove a factor in the survival push?

Monthly awards : February

Player of the month
Pavel pogrbnyak
Been key to fulhams great month scoring five crucial goals

Manager of the month
David moyes
Everton really shone in februrary and where unbeaten in the month.

Team of the month
Fulham really grew into their stride and players such as clint dempsey where at their best in the month really made a big push for the top half

Weekend review

We have new leaders in the premier league! manchester united are top after they beat west brom 2-0 while man city lost 1-0 at swansea city at the liberty stadium whitch means united go top. In other games Wigan remain bottom after they where held at norwich , liverpools losing streak stretched to three games after they lost 1-0 at martin o neills in form sunderland also aston villa beat fulham 1-0 , bolton beat qpr 2-1 to kickstart their survival bid chelsea beat stoke 1-0 and blackburn won 2-0 at wolves.

Torres where did it all go wrong?

Well as many of you will recall the spaniard moved to chelsea for a jaw dropping 50 million in the january transfer window of the 2010-11 season and boy has it gone wrong!

How come he has played so badly ?
Well when you join a big club like chelsea for that kind of money the pressure should really be on you and thats something in football that if you want to be a succesfull player you must deal with that. Torres' Chelsea debut came in a 1-0 home defeat to his old side ( who he left just a week before) Torres in all honesty had a shocker that day and that really started this rotten era.

Can injuries be to blame?

In the world cup before the 2010/11 season torres was in a winning spanish side but never really showed his potential and later scans showed that the striker whos nickname is el nino was playing with a hamstring injury that may have been to blame for the following season but not this season where he has been completly injury free.

Is there any possible exuses
Well not really but there is a few that may have affected him

1. He has been playing in a low confidenced side since torres has jonied chelsea have gone down hill and two managers have departed Roberto Di Matteo will be torres' 3rd manager in just over 1 year.

2. The formations

Torres usually played in a 4-2-3-1 formation at liverpool but since his move to chelsea he has been playing in a 4-5-1/4-3-3 system whitch he hasnt suited well.


Conclusion.
Torres hasn't performed at all well at Chelsea 5 goals in 51 games isnt good enough it looked like torres maybe finding a little bit of form when he scored against man united and swansea but he hasnt really done anything since , the horrific miss against Man united sums it all up!

Team knowlege test week 3

This week we test your knowlege on newcastle!

Who is their top scorer so far this season?

What was the result when they played man united away in the league this season?

What is the current name of their stadium?

What nationality are strikers Demba Ba
And Demba Cisse

Who scored the winner in their 1-0 home win against wigan this season ?

Predictions Week 2

Last Week: For our new version of the Predictions game, Dan White was the special guest. He predicted Wigan to thrash Swansea 8-0 with a di Santo hattrick - obviously that didn't happen. Instead they lost 2-0. So who won last week? Danny and Tom both achieved joint 2nd with 12 points, while Vishal managed to get 15.

Week 2: As promised, this week's special guest is Adebayo Akinfenwa - the Northampton Town striker. There's a few good games this week. 3 top of the table clashes - sadly they're in Wales, Northern Ireland and League 2.

Special Guest: Adebayo Akinfenwa. Considering the tank is on fire and has scored 5 in 3 games for Northampton, there's no better time than now to have him on our website.

The Tank:

Bolton 2-1 QPR

Aston Villa 1-1 Fulham

Chelsea 2-0 Stoke

Sunderland 2-2 Liverpool

Wolves 2-3 Blackburn

Everton 3-2 Tottenham

Man Utd 2-0 WBA

Swansea 2-2 Man City

Norwich 3-1 Wigan

Arsenal 3-2 Newcastle

Swindon 3-2 Cheltenham

Northampton 2-1 Aldershot (I'll score 1)

Bangor 2-1 TNS

Portadown 3-1 Cliftonville

Thomas:

Bolton 1-1 QPR

Aston Villa 0-0 Fulham

Chelsea 0-0 Stoke

Sunderland 1-1 Liverpool

Wolves 2-0 Blackburn

Everton 2-2 Tottenham

Man Utd 2-0 WBA

Swansea 2-3 Man City

Norwich 1-1 Wigan

Arsenal 2-2 Newcastle

Swindon 4-2 Cheltenham

Northampton 3-0 Aldershot (Akinfenwa hattrick)

Bangor 1-1 TNS

Portadown 0-0 Cliftonville

Vishal:

Bolton 2-1 QPR

Aston Villa 2-3 Fulham

Chelsea 2-0 Stoke

Sunderland 1-2 Liverpool

Wolves 1-3 Blackburn

Everton 0-3 Tottenham

Man Utd 3-0 WBA

Swansea 2-3 Man City

Norwich 3-1 Wigan

Arsenal 2-1 Newcastle

Swindon 4-2 Cheltenham

Northampton 3-1 Aldershot (Akinfenwa with 2)

Bangor 2-1 TNS

Portadown 4-2 Cliftonville

Monday Madness!

Hazardous Prank

Eden Hazard showed he has world-class skills as a prankster, as well as a footballer, when his trick on Nacer Chadli caused the Belgium national team's flight to be delayed.

Hazard's prank started afer taking his team-mate Chadli's Cartier watch from the basket at the airport metal detectors as the squad waited to board their flight home. He couldn't have hoped for a better outcome, as Chadli became irate when he discovered it was missing and insisted security staff emptied out bins and bags to search for it.

When that did not produce the watch, a number of the Belgium squad - including Fulham's Moussa Dembele - refused to board the plane unless they were allowed to review CCTV pictures to find out what had happened. Airport security rejected that request and the mood began to turn ugly, as the players thought one of the guards had taken the watch and the police were summoned.

At that point, a giggling Hazard decided it would be a good idea to defuse the situation by confessing.

The plane eventually took off for Brussels 30 minutes late, but Belgium manager Georges Leekens did not mind too much. 'This is proof that the atmosphere in the group is excellent. Nacer and Eden are childhood friends,' he said. Hazard's team-mates who struggled to make their connecting flights and the airport security staff apparently found the prank much less amusing.

Bungay Town v Bungay Town match preview

Bungay Town FC have launched a global search for people who share its name to play in a special match.

‘It will be a referee’s nightmare,’ said a spokesman for the Suffolk club.

The Black Dogs have been using several methods to find people with the surname, including visiting their local radio station, BBC Suffolk, and also propositioning people through Twitter. 'Are you a #Bungay & in the UK?,' a message on their Twitter account asked. 'Come & join us on Bank Holiday Monday 7th May for #BungayVBungay. 'We've got a game in which all players, ref, mascots, physio, linos, will all have the surname Bungay. Watch this space.'

A spokesman confirmed the Suffolk-based club has managed to get 25 Bungays so far.

Voodoo goes wrong

Gambia goalkeeper Musa Camara thought he could get one over on the opposition by sprinkling 'magic' white powder on his goal line but the hapless keeper still managed to make a dreadful error despite having the 'supernatural' aid. 

The substance has been confirmed as being ‘Gri Gri’, which is used in African voodoo to prevent bad luck. 

In this case it did the total opposite though, with Camara making a horrendous mistake that ultimately cost his team the win against Algeria in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.