RIO FERDINAND SAID THAT EARLY ON HE NEARLY JOINED BARCELONA.

The former England Leeds United and Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand who was a real big success with both of them England and Manchester United. But he was saying in THE METRO, that he was indeed very close to signing up with the Spanish giants Barcelona.. But after very careful thinking he and his agent decided not to go ahead and sign up with Barcelona ,as Manchester United was a better club. This could not be further from the truth as the real reason why Rio Ferdinand decided not to sign up for Barcelona . The real reason could very will be this. Rio Ferdinand knew very well as a central defender and with Barcelona having bth very good central defenders in Carle's Puyol and Gerrard Pique , were much younger then so e would have been sitting on the bench most of the time, while at Manchester United he was starting each game.

THE U.E.F.A COM TEAM OF THE YEAR.

This is the U.E.F.A .com Team of the year , sure some big names miss out, but only eleven could make it so some are deeply disappointed. 1) Iker casillas . Goalkeeper. 2) Sergio Ramos. Defender. 3) Carles Puyol. defender. 4) Allesandro Nesta. Defender. 5) Philipp Lahm. Defender. 6) Steven Gerrard. Midfielder. 7) xavi Hernandez. Midfielder. 8) Andres Iniesta. Midfielder. Cristiano Ronaldo. Midfield 9) Cristiano Ronaldo. midfielder. 10 ) Lionel Messi/. Striker. 11) Thierry Henry. Striker. SUBSTITUTES. Gianlugi Buffon. John Terry. Ronaldinho. Kaka. Zinedine Zidane. Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

WHO WERE THE BIGGEST FLOPS AT THE WORLD CUP 2014?

1) Diego Costa was the biggest flop . not a single shot at goal, only won a penalty. 2) Steven Gerrard, was disapointing, he made two mistakes in his passing both went to Luis Suarez who scored two goals. 3) Gonzalo Higuain scored a lucky goal, as the ball fell at his feet.Missed a easy chance iin the finals. 4) Iker Casillas was a shadow of his old self. was replaced in the third match by Pepe Reina, they won ny 3 goals then. 5) Gerrard Pique was useless. 6 ) Hulk had ver 14 shots not one even on target.Was a substitute. 7) Fred The less of him the better was a shadow of his old self , with Neymar injured these two failed to score. 8) Sergio Aguero was not the striker we know at Manchester City. 9) Wayne Rooney just one goal that was not enough for England to progress. 10) Edison Cavani joined P.S/G for 56 million pounds , scored just one goal from the penalty.

EIGHT FOOTBALLERS TO PLAY A HUNDRED GAMES.

So far only eight footballers have played   a hundred games or more for England. Here is the list.
1) Sir Bobby Moore.
 2)  Sir Bobby Charlton.
3) Peter Shilton.
4) David Beckham.
5) Ashley Cole.
6) Steven Gerrard.
7) Billy Wright.
 8)  Frank Lampard.

20 HIGHEST PAID FOOTBALLERS.

Samuel Etoo becomes the highest yearly paid footballer.
1) Samuel Etoo . Cameroon. 20 Million pounds.A year.
2) Christiano Ronaldo. Portugal. 10.5 Million pounds. A Year.
3)Lionel Messi. Argentina. 8.7. Million Pounds.A Year.
4) Fernando Torres. Spain. 8.7. Million Pounds. A Year.
5) Yaya Toure. Ivory Coast. 8.7. Million Pounds. A year.
6) Wayne Rooney. England. 8.3. Million pounds A Year.
7) Kaka. Brazil. 7.9. Million Pounds. A Year.
8)Zalatan Ibrahimovic. Sweden . 7.9. Million Pounds. A Year.
9)Carlos Tevez. Argentina. 7.4. Million pounds. A Year.
10) Emmanuel Adebayor.Togo. 7.4. Million Pounds. A Year.
11) Frank Ribery. France. 7.4. Million Pounds. A Year.
12) John Terry. England. 6.5. Million Pounds. A Year
13)Frank Lampard.England. 6.5. Million Pounds. A Year.
14) Steven Gerrard. England. 6.5. 15)Xavi Hernandez. Spain. 6.5. Million pounds A Year.
16)Andrea Iniesta. Spain. 6.1. Million Pounds. A Year.
17)David Villa. Spain. 6.1. Million Pounds A Year.
18)Danny Alaves. Brazil. 6.1. Million Pounds A Year.
19)Edin Dzeko. Serbia. 5.7. Million pounds A Year
20)Rio Ferdinand. England. 5.7. Million Pounds. A Year. .

10MOST JERSEY SOLD FOR 2010-2011.

tHE TOP MOST JERSEYS SOLD FOR 2010-2011 WERE WITH wAYNE rOONEY OVERTAKING LAST YEARS WINNER. Fernando Torres.
1) Wayne Rooney.. Manchester United.
2) Fernando Torres. Chelsea.
3)Steven Gerrard. Liverpool.
4) Javier Hernandez. Manchester United.
5)Robin Van Persie. Arsenal.
6)Frank Lampard. Chelsea.
7)Dider Drogba. Chelsea.
8) Luis Suarez. Liverpool.
9) Andrey Arshavin Arsenal.
10)Ryan Giggs. Manchester United.

THE 20 RICHEST FOOTBALLERS. FOR 2010

1) David Beckham. 125 . Million Pounds.

2) Michael Owen. 40. Million pounds.

3) Rio Ferdinand. 34. Million pounds.

4) Sol Campbell. 31. Million Pounds.

5) Ryan Giggs. 27. Million pounds.

6)Wayne Rooney. 25. Million pounds.

7) Steven Gerrard. 22. Million Pounds.

7) Frank Lampard. 22. Million pounds.

9) John Terry. 19. Million pounds.

10) Patrick Vieira. 18. Million Pounds.

11Dider Drogba. 18. Million pounds.

12)Paul Scholes. 16. Million pounds.

13) Fernando Torres. 15 . Million pounds.

Nicolas Anelka. 14. Million pounds.

14) Petr Cech. 14. Million pounds.

14) Joe cole. 14. Million pounds.

14) gary Neville. 14. Million pounds.

18) Michael essien. 13. Million pounds.

Emile . Heskey. 13. Million pounds.

18) Damien Duff. 13. Million pounds.

THE E.P.L. GREATEST ELEVEN EVER.

people across the U.K voted to choose the greatest E.p.L. Ever.This is the team.

1) Goalkeeper. Peter Sch Michael..

2) Defenders. Gary Neville, John Terry, Tony Adams and Patrice Evra.

3) Midfielder Steven Gerrard, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs. David Beckham

4) Strikers. Their y Henry. Eric Cantona.

But I have others who should have been there like Ashley Cole, Patrick vieira, Roy Keane,. And two very famous strikers Andy Cole and Alan Shearer. shearer is the leading E.p.L scorer with 260 goals.

The best manager went to Alex Ferguson.

FERGUSON SHOULD NOT SAY TORRES DIVES

Ferguson should not blame Fernando Torres of diving. It resulted in a free kick in which Steven Gerrard scored. That match between Liverpool verses Manchester United was a tense and exiting game, Manchester United were leading 2-0. But a penalty scored by Gerrard and that free kick made it 2-2. The Manchester United players and fans , were haunted whether they would draw this match as well like the one with Everton. In that match Manchester United wee cruising at 3-0 when Everton made it 3-3, two good points lost.

Ferguson has forgotten how Christiano Ronaldo used to dive and get free kicks and penalties to score those goals at Manchester. Not once did Ferguson admit he was a cheat.But the world saw it

Here Berbatov scored a hat trick to save the Manchester players from that hair dryer treatment.

Here to Rooney did nothing.

WILL HODGSON SELL LIVERPOOL FLOP PLAYERS.

The big question now asked is Roy Hodgson going to sell any players ? It is quite wrong to blame Rafael Benitez for themess by the American owners of Liverpool. Yes he did buy bad players all do that but the bad ones were few like Jermaine Pennant, Robbie Keane, Lucas Levi. But you can not call Aqulani a failure.as he was injured for a long ime last year. But the good ones were more Dirk Kuyt, Jose Reina, Fernando Torres, Ryan Babel and yossi Benayoun.But all the good ones made it to the world cup teams.Robbie keane is a very good player but a lot was paid for him and no goals came.Another good player is Javier Mascherano, got by Benitez.Joe Cole is not going to do any wonders at Liverpool ,you can be sure he is a injury prone player to.Another player was Xavi Alonso who was sold to Real Madrid for 30 million pounds a Liverpool record.So it is very wrong to say that Rafael Benitez wasted the club money i five years and put the owners in debt. The truth is the two American Tom Hicks and george gillet borrowed heavily from two banks to buy Liverpool, and they did notsee the recession coming , naturally. Same story as the Glazers. But tdonotforget gerrard , Carragher are all in their 30 new youth players from their accademy must be found for both Liverpool and england.

2010 WORLD CUP RECORDS.

In the 2010 world cup Spain have yet to pick a yellow or red card , after 55 games.
The fas test goal scored in the 2o10 world cup has been by Steven Gerrard in 4 minutes verses the U.s.A.
The fastest goal by any African country was scored by kevin Prince Boateng of Ghana, who scored the goal in 5 minutes.
South Korea were knocked out in the group of 16 again. As South Korea have never beaten a South American country in its history.
The south Koreans scored the first goal by beating theUruguay galkeeper for the first time in this world cup.
It is for the first time that a player from Uruguay has scored more then one goal at a world cup. Forlan has two goals so far and Luis Saures has three goals.

JOSE MORINHO GETS ONLY 45 MILLION AND NOT 70 MILLION .

Jose Mourinho the new coach of Real Madrid was told that he will not get more then 45 million pounds to spend this summer. And not 70 million as promised. So he has been told to sell players in exchange. So Gago and Rafael Vander Vart will be given to Liverpool to get Steven Gerrard. And he wants to give Kaka to Chelsea in exchange for the 31 year old Lampard. Will these clubs in England agree is a another matter altogether. Other footballers he wants are Maicon and Diego Milito.

SHEIKH MANSOOR HAS BIG PLANS.

Sheikh Mansoor the Arab owner from Dubai of the English football club Manchester City, wants to bring the Spaniard Rafael Benitez from Liverpool. He wants to tempt him with a better pay purse and a better transfer bag. In other words he wants to steal the Spaniard rigjht from the noses of the Italian Old Lady Juventus.
So the people who will be most nervous will be the Liverpool fans. Players like Fernando Torres and Gerrard may join Manchester City, as the club is in England.

11 To 20 BEST FOOTBALLERS.

This is the list of best footballers from 11 to 20 , in Europe.
11) Fernando Torres. Liverpool. Spain.
12) Diego Milito. Inter Milan. Argentina.
13) Jesus Navas. Sevilla. Spain.
14)Angel di Maria. Benfica. Portugal.
15) Andrey Arshavin. Arsenal. Russia.
16) Lucio. Inter Milan. Brazil.
17) Maicon. Inter Milan. Brazil.
18) Zalatin Ibrahimovic. Barcelona. Sweden.
19) Steven Gerrard. Liverpool. England.
20) Kaka. Real Madrid. Brazil.

FERGUSON LOVES TO GRUMBLE.

Sir Alex Ferguson loves to grumble over other managers like Arsene Wenger and now Steven Gerrard.
Ferguson says Gerrard got away after he us ed his elbow on Michael Brown of Porthsmouth.
Ferguson the F.A . punished Rio Ferdinand with a four match ban for the very same reason, and here no action was taken what so ever.
But Ferguson also must remember that the referees are always to kind on Manchester United, let us take the case of the Carling cup final , Aston villa verses Manchester United, Vidic brought down the last man in the box , not only was a penalty not given, Vidic should have been shown a straight red card as well.
The main reason Ferguson is grumbling is that now Steven Gerrard will be there for the E.P.L. game Manchester united verses Liverpool. And he will be a big threat and he knows it very well. Gerrard along with Torres will mean goals.

JOHN TERRY AND HIS LAW PROBLEMS.

John Terry the Chelsea and England football captain, has been in the wrong side of the law on many a time.Here is the list.
1) 2001, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Eidur Gudijohnsen and Judy Morris , were accused of insulting behaviour towards Americans, a day after the Illfamous 11/9/2001 attack on the U.s.A.
2) Both John Terry and Judi morris were charged for assault at a night club , and the F.A did not consider Terry for selection for the 2002 world cup in Japan.As the court case was pending.
3)2009. Johns mother Sue Terry and motherin law Sue Poole were caught shop lifting together.
4) 2009. Johns father Ted Terry was caught passing cocaine to a undercover newspaper reporter.
50 2010. John Terry is caught in a sex scandal involving former Chelsea team mate Wayne Bridges ex girlfriend., named VanessaPerroncel . Who was also a unergarment model. Vanessa got pregnant , and had to be taken by John terry , from a side door , to have a abortion done.The best thing for Terry would to hand the captains aarmband to Capello to choose from Rooney orGerrard.

RAFAEL BENITEZS DAYS ARE NUMBERED.

Rafael Benitez and the Liverpool fans and players are having a terrible year. With injuries to their main players steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres, and the selling of Xavi Alonso to Real Madrid, and Roberto Aqullani has not been able to fill in those boots.Patience at the club has grown thin, with fans and old Liverpool players asking for the sacking of Rafael Benitez.The anger on the two American owners is also there , they promised a new stadium, which has not come yet.
But the Italian club The Old Lady Juventus are waiting for Rafael to get the sack.As their manager in Italy has also come under fire. And the Dutch manager Guuss Hidink who was former Chelsea manager wants the jobas well. But the stumbling block wil be Roman Abromovich who will have to agree to it.

WILL THERE BE AN EXODOUS OF PLAYERS AT LIVERPOOL.

It is no secret that the club Liverpool has its big share of money problems. With the two American Owners involved.Now Rafael Benitez has been clearly told, that he shpould sell players first ,to generate funds for the january transfer window.
So those who will be sold are Ryan Babel and Andreiy Voronin.and Doseena.But Fernando Torres has clearly said that he would leave Liverpool , if the club fails to qualify for the champion league next year.This year they are 8th in the premiere league.The big question is will Steven Gerrard also leave? As weall know that there will be big clubs i Italy and Spain knocking at his door.

2009 F.I.F.A WORLD XI.

1) Goalkeeper. Iker Casillas. Real Madrid .
2) Defenders. Dani Alaves. Barcelona.Patrice Evra. Manchester united.John terry. Chelsea.Nemanja Vidic. Manchester United.
3) Midfielders.Steven Gerrard. Liverpool.Xavi Hernandez. Barcelona.Andrea Iniesta.Barcelona.
4) Forwards. Lionel Messi. Barcelona. Fernando Torres. Liverpool.Christiano Ronaldo.Real Madrid.

10 TOP FOOTBALLERS FOR THE BALLONd OR.

from atotal of 30 top footballers nominated for the Ballon d Or award it is now cut down to only ten players. With the Argentinan footballer Lionel Messi , who is the hot favourite to win the title.This year not a single Italian or a footballer playing his club football in Italy is nominated in the ten .There are six Barcelona players in the top ten list.
1) Dider Drogba. Ivory Coast. Chelsea.
2) Samuel Etoo. Cameroon. InterMilan.
3) Steven Gerrard. England . Liverpool.
4) Wayne Rooney. england Manchester United.
5)Lionel Messi. Argentina. Barcelona.
6) Andrea Inesta. Spain . Barcelona.
7) Xavi Hernandes. Spain . Barcelona.
8) Zalatan Ibrahimovic. Sweeden. Barcelona.
9) Kaka. Brazil. Real Madrid.
10) Christiano Ronaldo. Portugal. Real Madrid.