Cameron Sharpe @cameron-sharpe ?

When I look back at Chelsea’s Champions League heartbreaks over the last nine years, I have often suggested to anyone who will listen that that last gasp defeat to Barcelona at Stamford Bridge in 2009 was the worst of all the near-misses and gut-wrenching disappointments. That was, of course, until about 10.27pm last night when [...]

There is something pretty seriously wrong with me. I just can’t stop crying. For nearly two years writing on Football FanCast I have resolutely refused to nail my football colours to the mast. After last night’s simply astounding viewing at the Nou Camp, however, I cannot hold it in any longer. Yet, as a Chelsea [...]

Fernando Torres’ move to Chelsea caused much annimosity at Anfield, as the Spaniard went from being a club hero to a villain in the flash of an eye. Glancing through player transfers over the last fifteen years, it is clear that Torres is not the first to endure the wrath of a particular set of fans [...]

At first they were almost a novelty. Foreign players in the top flight were deemed a little out of place, unlikely to fit in with the English game and were not expected to last. Before too long, however, the merry band of eleven overseas imports that began the inaugural weekend of the Premier League back in [...]

Do not let your eyes deceive you, it was not the FA that stripped Terry of the England captaincy on Friday morning. In fact, confirmation that association chairman, David Bernstein, called the now former skipper to inform him of the board’s decision was simply confirmation of how powerful the media, in all its guises, has become. [...]

You may be tempted to think of the modern day footballer as a protected species. When you see a number of the Premier League’s big name stars rolling around on the floor after a collision, it becomes hard to imagine that those same players are capable of extraordinary feats of bravery to secure success for their club [...]

Initially I wasn’t at all sure why Edin Dzeko hammering in Manchester City’s sixth goal at Old Trafford  left me feeling so flat. With no allegiance to either side and despite having been thoroughly entertained by the afternoon’s proceedings I found myself profoundly wishing the game had been a bit of a non-event where neither [...]

It is arguably the most overused word in football. Ranking alongside phrases in common football parlance such as; “pay-as-you play,” “breath of fresh air” and “Arsenal surrender a late lead”, the term ‘veteran’ is fast becoming a frustratingly permanent fixture in the lexicon of the football community.   The obsession with age across top-level football is, to my mind, wildly counter-productive. The general [...]

As we complete our look at football’s heroes and villains, I examine the top 10 sporting brothers and sisters who have managed to slip under the radar and whose accomplishments have been dwarfed by their sibling’s success. It is often incredible how many sets of brothers and sisters make it into professional sport, and while natural [...]

Not that long before Fernando Torres signed for Chelsea Football Club for a British record transfer fee of £50 million, the West London club were unable to convince Jody Morris to sign a new contract at Stamford Bridge, the outlook has not always been rosy. In an age where foreign players were a rare commodity, Chelsea [...]

As things stand, there appears to be a significant risk of seeing more images of Harry Redknapp playing golf on Sky television this summer than there is of seeing Tiger Woods with club in hand in the coming weeks. A day does not appear to pass without the Tottenham boss giving his green-side views on [...]

 As things stand, there appears to be a significant risk of seeing more images of Harry Redknapp playing golf on Sky television this summer than there is of seeing Tiger Woods with club in hand in the coming weeks. A day does not appear to pass without the Tottenham boss giving his green-side views on [...]

I must be losing my mind. Whenever I mention this Premier League season to friends, family and work colleagues, I get the same line about how fantastic the current campaign has been. Do not get me wrong- as always, there have been a number of remarkable games and moments to savour over the last ten [...]

Every season, an Arsenal fan I know comes to me in the New Year to tell me how his team are going to win the title. Every year we place a small wager on the outcome of the championship race. Since the departure of Thierry Henry in the summer of 2007, his insistence that the North Londoners will [...]

Talk about a difficult task. Naming the best composite XI to have played Premier League football is incredibly complicated and an inevitably divisive issue. I have tried to create a side that have achieved excellence through longevity and, on the whole, all eleven players have an outstanding array of moments and performances to fall back on. [...]