The suspended fine of £25,000 Wolverhampton Wanderers were handed last week by the Premier League, for fielding a weakened side against Manchester United, is not much of a punishment you may think. And it is not in reality because that sort of money is a drop in the ocean… 
There is talk of a Champions League play-off system being put in place in the Premier League, and while this is something I am not totally against – you only have to look to the Football League to see how brilliant playoffs can be – this season is proving… 
September 2009 was a good time for Chris Gunter. Not only did he score his first goal in senior football, but he also triumphed from the halfway line in Soccer AM’s (the Sky Sports show) ‘Crossbar Challenge’ – not a bad month! But it has also been an exciting… 
The Hysen family are well known at IFK Goteburg in Sweden. Glenn, the former Liverpool defender, was the fourth member of his family to wear the blue and white strip of the Gothenburg club, after his Grandfather, Great Uncle and also his Father. So it was no surprise to the IFK… 
Liverpool won their fifth FA Cup on May 9 1992 at Wembley. Their opponents that day were Sunderland, the first second division team to appear in an FA Cup final since West Ham did so in 1980, something that didn’t happen again until Millwall made it to the showpiece event in… 
Inter Milan star, Mario Balotelli, didn’t have an easy start in life. Born to Ghanian immigrants in Palermo as a sick child he was entrusted to the Balotelli family at the age of just two-years-old. In 2008 this culminated in a stinging attack from Mario on his biological parents,… 
When the name Temuri Ketsbaia is mentioned most English football fans will best remember him not for his powerful shot or his brilliant dribbling skills, but for his wild celebration in 1998 after scoring for Newcastle United. They will remember the Georgian flinging his black and white striped shirt… 
When Samir Nasri arrived in North London in July 2008 Arsenal fans soon began learning about their new signing from Marseille. There were murmurs that he was the new Zinedine Zidane. High praise indeed, and then Arsene Wenger had his say, comparing him to a former Gunners’ legend, Robert… 
Aston Villa have come a long way under Martin O’Neill. On Sunday they face a trip to Wembley – their first major final in 10 years. After a period of stagnation before the Northern Irishman’s arrival, in the summer of 2006, the Birmingham club now stand on the verge… 
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