Football FanCast columnist
Davis Lowe reflects on a triumphant night for Chelsea football club.

You may love him or loath him but one think you have to do
is now respect him. 7months of unprecedented pressure, some self inflicted some
unjust but he has succeeded where Jose Mourinho failed in three years and taken
Chelsea to their first Champions League final in his first season at the …

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Football FanCast
columnist Jerome Johnstone is one unhappy Red tonight and wonders
whether the club were destined not to win it tonight.

I don't think sick would be the best way to describe the way
I am feeling tonight, distraught hurt and let down. I was one of many Liverpool
fans who stood on the Kop with scarf in hand, waiting for that final whistle
which should have …

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Football FanCast
columnist Davis Lowe relishes the blood and thunder of the derby
game but is at pains to work out whether it's the Newcastle/Sunderland,
Merseyside, Manchester United/City, Aston Villa/Birmingham, North London or
even the East Anglian derby that can …

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Football FanCast
columnist Jim McKendry reacts to news that Sunderland owner Niall
Quinn is going to back Keane in the summer and wonders, given that Keegan is
likely to spend big as well, which set of fans should be the more optimistic
about next season's chances.

When Newcastle United entertained Sunderland at St James
Park a fortnight ago, it was the …

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Football FanCast columnist Fanos
Kyriacou is fed up to say the least of the constant hypocrisy of
Premier League managers.

According to Avram
Grant, Didier Drogba doesn't dive but Rafa Benitez says he does and yet Rafa
Benitez doesn't believe Steven Gerrard dives but the whole world can see he
does. Sir Alex Ferguson gets upset when decisions go against his team and then
promptly criticises the referee and yet when a team playing

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Football FanCast
columnist Rob Swan reflects on a great night for Manchester
United and feels the defence, Rio in particular, is the reason they will be
travelling to Moscow next month.

It was a tense and nervy evening as many had predicted. The
very first minute led to a heart-in-mouth moment as Paul Scholes brought down Lionel Messi, in what seemed to be a fraction of a millimetre outside the area. But a …

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Football FanCast
columnist Joe Jennings reflects on what has been a solid season at
Everton football club but feels it maybe now the time they club started to show a bit more ambition.

Despite Everton's visible downturn in fortunes since cruelly
crashing out of the UEFA Cup, all in all, I genuinely believe it has been a
good, solid season for the Toffees.

If offered at the start …

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Football FanCast
columnist Rob Facey joins Sir Alex Ferguson in praising Man
United midfielder Paul Scholes after firing his team in to the Champions League
final.

After tragically missing out on the 1999 final, Paul Scholes
will get the chance to round off a superb Man United career by playing some part
in next months European centrepiece in Moscow after his spectacular 30 yard
strike was enough to …

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Football FanCast
columnist David Mooney
is appalled at the apparent reports that Sven will lose his job at the end of
the season and wonders why the club always feel the ‘sack the manager, solve
the problems' attitude is the way forward.

It
is utter madness. A BBC source has revealed yesterday that Thaksin Shinawatra will
sack Sven from his position as Man City manager at the end of the season. It's
not, apparently, a case …

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Football FanCast
columnist Andy Davies looks ahead to the weekend dramatic playoff
shootout and wonders which two teams out of five can claim the last available
spots.

There is just one game left to play in what has been one of
the most exciting and unpredictable seasons in the Championship for many years
and there is still the matter of who is going to secure the last two playoff
places. Hull and

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