What you missed while spending six months taking a picture…
- Your Premier League roundup: Manchester United 3-1 Tottenham, Bolton 2-2 Portsmouth, Hull City 0-1 Sunderland, West Ham 3-2 Wigan, Wolves 1-1 Blackburn, Arsenal 0-0 Manchester City, Aston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City, Burnley 0-4 Liverpool, Everton 2-1 Fulham, Chelsea 7-0 Stoke City.
- Brief Scottish Premier League roundup: Hibernian FC 0-1 Rangers. This result secured the SPL for Rangers.
- Brief La Liga roundup: Barcelona 3-1 Xerez, Real Zaragoza 1-2 Real Madrid. So Barcelona’s still in the lead by one point.
- Brief Serie A roundup: Inter 3-1 Atalanta, Roma 1-2 Sampdoria. Roma’s first loss in 25 games also handed first place back to Inter, who had been behind Roma for the last couple of weeks.
- MLS roundup: New York 2-1 Philadelphia, Chicago 2-0 Houston, Columbus 1-0 Salt Lake, Kansas City 0-0 L.A., New England 1-2 Colorado, Chivas USA 3-2 San Jose, Toronto 2-0 Seattle.
- Burnley and Hull City will join Portsmouth in the Championship next season.
- Hull midfielder George Boateng took full responsibility for Hull’s dismal performances this season blamed former manager Phil Brown for the team’s relegation.
- Manchester City goalkeeper Shay Given will miss the rest of the season with a dislocated shoulder; Man City has requested permission from the FA to make an emergency signing to bring another keeper in.
- Sol Campbell’s performances have been so good that they’ve caused Arsene Wenger to change his transfer policy.
- West Ham owner David Gold is eager for manager Gianfranco Zola to stick around.
- Wayne Rooney deservedly won the PFA Player of the Year award.
- Livorno was relegated from Serie A in spite of their 3-1 win over Catania.
- Raul and Rafael van der Vaart will both be out of Real Madrid’s lineup with injury for the foreseeable future.
- Panathinaikos have won the Greek league and cup double.
- Hamburg have sacked manager Bruno Labbabia; the move comes three days before Hamburg’s Europa League semifinal second leg against Fulham, but after a 5-1 loss to Hoffenheim.
- Chinese FA chief Wei Di admits that a plan to include the Chinese U-21 international team as a 17th team in the Chinese Superleague “was a mistake”; Team America seen whistling and looking the other way.
- Political unrest has caused organizers of an AFC Cup match between Thai Port and Tai Po to say “Phuket.”
- Bristol Academy will have the first women’s football stadium in England next season.
- U.S. international Charlie Davies has been told that his European season is over by the president of Socheaux; Davies is still optimistic of making the U.S. World Cup squad.
