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Looks like manbags and clutches are set to be thrown when David Beckham returns to training with LA Galaxy this Monday, after Landon Donovan criticised his captain for being uncommited to the team. Beckham has hit back at Donovan when he arrived at Los Angeles recently -
“It is unprofessional in my eyes. In 17 years, I have played with the biggest teams in the world and the biggest players and not once been criticised for my professionalism. In every football player’s eyes throughout the world it would be unprofessional to speak out about a team-mate, especially in the press and not to your face.”
The statement was later translated by the American media to – “Bring it on! I’m gonna open a can of whoop ass on Landycakes!”
And the English Premier League also.
So far so good, with more than 25 teams at the moment its setting up to be WDKF Fantasy Premier League’s biggest ever season. With Cristiano Ronaldo off at Real Madrid, the game will be more competitive and unpredictable since managers won’t have him to lean on as captain.
If you would like to join the WDKF League, just follow these three simple steps:
1. Click on to the official Fantasy Premier League website and log in/register yourself,
2. Once in, select your team colours and team sheet – 2 goalkeepers, 5 defenders, 5 midfielders and 3 strikers (you can always change the team selection before the season starts, so don’t worry about putting the finishing touches on your team right now),
3. Then click on the “League” tab on the left navigation column, proceeds to the “Join A League” tab and type in the code 38488-12235 to join the WDKF League.
Don’t forget to email us your details to wedontknowfootballdotcom [at] gmail [dot] com to enter our competition where the champion of the league will win a prize at the end of the season. We’re thinking of giving out more prizes possibly Manager of the Month / Manager of the Year awards so keep updating yourself by clicking on our website.
Looks like the only decent dribbling Micah Richards is capable off is the snot running off from his nose. Good news though, after spending a week in isolation with swine flu he will be back to pre-season training soon.
Wigan’s new manager Roberto Martinez has just signed his 3rd player since joining the club. One of them is Honduran, Hendry Thomas, a player Martinez probably didn’t know he was going to sign. The other two, however, he knows very well. Jordi Gomez and Jason Scotland both played for him at Swansea, and obviously they had a good relationship with the boss. So much so, that the gaffer decided to bring him along for his memorable, but possibly short Premier League journey.
I like Martinez as a manager, but I have always been against bringing players from your old clubs, with the only exception being that these players are playing in the same league in the same division. Crossing over from divisions, or countries, is a risky move that usually ends in failure.They may have been good in the division they were at, but that might not be the case in the EPL.
It also doesn’t help Martinez’s case in that he himself was never a Premier League player, and never experienced it first hand. However, that doesn’t always mean failure as we have seen that just because you are a bad player, it doesn’t make you a good manager. Refer to Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger for details.
The problem with buying players from your old club is, not only are they not guaranteed for success, they probably cost the club a lot more than market price, because of your previous boss knows you want them because you know them. As the saying goes, familiarity breeds contempt.
I just hope that Martinez has done his homework and watched enough EPL games to know the standard of quality expected there, are well within the capcities of the players he promoted from the Championship. Otherwise, he will end up without a job, and his players will be shipped back to where they really belong.
Was watching Arrested Development on the DVD last night, can’t help but noticed the similarities between actor Jason Bateman and Liverpool Spanish midfielder, Xabi Alonso.
One of them is the latest subject of interest by Real Madrid, we’re just saying.
Rafa Benitez became famous in the media after his ‘FACTS‘ attack on Sir Alex last season, and this time, after officially unveiling Glen Johnson as a Liverpool player, he has launched an attack on midfielder Gareth Barry, who joined Manchester City recently.
Benitez accuses him of joining City for the money instead of joining a club challenging for the title. As far as I know, almost every player does this nowadays, money is the name of the game.
If we consider Benitez’s view, then I’m sure Sir Alex Ferguson also should have attacked Karem Benzema, because he shunned Manchester United for Real Madrid, and even Carlos Tevez who wasn’t satisfied with the weekly salary being proposed…
Looks like Fabio Aurelio’s kids are going to be bone-crunching tacklers when they grow up. The Liverpool left back could miss up to six months of the season after a freak accident while playing football with his kids left him with a twisted knee and is likely to need surgery.
What he fails in teaching his kids sportmanship, he will forever gain recognitions for those free-kicks against Chelsea and Manchester United.
After splurging £150,000 on a brand new Lamborghini Gallardo as a personal gift for Burnley’s promotion to the Premier League, former Manchester United player was left red-faced on the roadside after cops seized his car for not being insured.
And who said we only cover the big clubs?
It’s back. The 2009-2010 Fantasy Premier League season is open. WDKF has set up its third rendition and are calling all you armchair/desktop managers to join in our private league. Just follow these three steps:
1. Click on to the official Fantasy Premier League website and log in/register yourself,
2. Once in, select your team colours and team sheet – 2 goalkeepers, 5 defenders, 5 midfielders and 3 strikers (you can always change the team selection before the season starts, so don’t worry about putting the finishing touches on your team right now),
3. Then click on the “League” tab on the left navigation column, proceeds to the “Join A League” tab and type in the code 38488-12235 to join the WDKF League.
All players from last season will be automatically entered into our league when they log in to the Fantasy Premier League website.
There are a couple of notable changes to this coming season’s Fantasy Premier League, if you don’t use your one “Free Transfer” on a particular week then it’ll be transfer to the following game-week and there is now an “emergency” captain just in case your captain doesn’t feature in the gameweek.
We’ll be giving out a number of prizes to the winner of the WDKF League, nothing decided just yet. We’re waiting on our chief designer to come up with a t-shirt design for awhile now, but it seems he has legged it with the deposit but one thing for sure there will be a t-shirt or two by the end of the season.
Arsenal fans do have a sense of humour, when it comes to Emmanuel Adebayor.
BTW. Remember that horrendous mop of a hair-style he used to have in his first season at Arsenal? I’ve failed to find one picture of it.
