For American fans of the Premier League, seeing matches means waking up early, sometimes to make the cold walk to some local bar or self-styled Irish pub to share a euthanasia breakfast with a plasma screen and a handful of European exiles, sometimes to wage a sleepy war with Chinese streaming software in the hope [...]

Spurs have confirmed, to the delight of whatever PA at Blackburn takes Mark Hughes’s phone messages, that Juande Ramos is their new manager. They’ve done well to get him, although it remains to be seen whether he’s enough of an improvement over Martin Jol to justify the ten-story belly-flop of what can only with charity [...]

Juande Ramos has resigned from Sevilla in a move that seems a certain prelude to his replacing Gary Megson at Leicester. Ramos declined to give a press conference at Sevilla, but “has chosen his website www.juanderamos.com as a means of saying goodbye to the club,” according to a statement released by Sevilla. In other [...]

That’s what Nick Miller suspects at the Football365 Blog.

Ramos has yet to prove he can break the sort of hold that Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea have over the rest of the league. This quartet dominate the Premier League in the same way that the Real Madrid and Barcelona duopoly do in Spain, and [...]

After a house burns down, the ashes all look the same, and after a prominent team falls out with its successful coach, the commentaries tend to be more or less identical. By the time the end comes, every aspect of the story has been gone over so many times that analysis has settled on a [...]

Leeds will not be offering Gus Poyet for the job that Tottenham want to give him. (The Guardian)
Mark Hughes will not be seeking the job that Tottenham want to give someone else. (TeamTalk)
Valeri Bojinov could be back by January. (Manchester City Football Club Official Website)
Two super aircraft carriers calmly but firmly tell Portsmouth to build [...]

Martin Jol is out at Tottenham following a 2-1 UEFA Cup loss to Getafe at White Hart Lane—Spurs’ fifth game without a win, if anyone’s still counting. Did he quit, or was he sacked? Or (just to throw out a third option) was he slowly roasted over a low-burning fire fueled by media speculation, board [...]

We have a natural fascination with movement, rhythm, and the interaction of objects—especially the human body—with gravity. When a cat sees a dangling string, it tracks its motions obsessively; in the same way, when we see a ball flying through the air or bouncing along the ground, it naturally draws our eye. Add this to [...]

Leicester City’s new manager Gary Megson is now Bolton’s new manager instead. Bolton fans will be unhappy, but then it’s not as though they were happy to begin with.

Thaksin Shinawatra pledges to support Sven with even more of his hard-earned cash. (TeamTalk)
Gary Megson and Bolton are going to talk. (The Guardian)
Carlos Tevez can’t stop Sheffield United from making £6.3 million. (Hemscott)
Southampton’s mystery bidder pulls off its mask, swings from the chandelier, kills the villain with a rapier, reveals itself to be SISU Capital [...]