Tag Archives: Swansea City

5. Michael Owen – 40 goals An England international for ten years featuring in five major tournaments, Owen debuted for his country in 1998 before going on to truly announce himself at the World Cup in France later that year. The iconic image of a teenage Owen’s scoring that goal against ...

Jon Walters, v Chelsea, 2013 Few players have had as miserable a game as Stokes Jon Walters against Chelsea in 2013. The Irish striker twice headed past his own goalkeeper before later missing a penalty in a thumping 4-0 defeat. His first was a thing of real beauty, a bullet ...

Brendan Rodgers, to be fair, is actually a much better coach then he gets credit for. The problem for the ex-Liverpool manager is that he talks such complete and utter bollocks at times, it’s just very difficult to like him or even take him seriously.

Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham has completed a season-long loan move to Aston Villa. The English striker has previously impressed in the Championship, scoring 26 goals in 48 appearances for Bristol City in the 2016/17 campaign, before being offered an opportunity in the Premier League with Swansea City last season, where ...

Veteran striker Peter Crouch has revealed that he views former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry as the greatest foreign player to have ever graced the Premier League. After Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero’s superb hat-trick last weekend against Huddersfield, the Premier League’s all-time leading goalscorer Alan Shearer declared that the Argentine ...

Everton boss Marco Silva has described Gylfi Sigurdsson as a ‘fantastic’ player, both with and without the ball. Sigurdsson was one of Ronald Koeman’s big money buys last summer, making the £50 million move from Swansea City. However, his first season at Goodison Park was less than impressive, scoring just ...

The enormous void between the English promoted clubs level of spending and their continental counterparts was revealed earlier this week. A staggering €214,000,000 million was spent between Cardiff, Wolves, and Fulham as they look to hit the ground running in the top flight. The nine promoted clubs in Italy, Spain ...

There’s nothing like the buzz created by a new signing. It’s all potential at that point, it’s all rumours and whispers and YouTube highlights packages that make the player look like a genius, who is going to herald in a new dawn for the club. It’s even better then when ...

Every year, football players get more and more expensive with the highest transfer record getting broken every few seasons (although the Neymar one will be tough to match). When it is broken it is usually by a big club trying to bring in a striker/winger who can get them 40-50 goals ...

It has been a quiet summer at Turf Moor, but Burnley’s transfer window is seemingly ready to spark to life with a number of moves having been made. The Clarets are one of only two Premier League clubs yet to make a signing this summer, but they are hoping to ...