Sunday, April 27, 2008

Its like Popbitch for football fans....

If you like celebrity gossip then Popbitch is yer man.

The latest on Girls Aloud, the size of Posh Spice's waist and Jennifer Aniston's latest fella are all discussed at length with updates every day on the latest gossip. It's the Internet at its best.

It will have occasional references to Ashley Cole but never along the lines of "Yes he is back to his Arsenal form now", more along the lines of .......well you know yourself.

So if you are a football fan in search of transfer gossip then what are you to do.

Well there is a steady stream of stories in the press, nicely condensed on pages like The Guardian's Rumour Mill http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/series/rumourmill and if you are old school there is always Ceefax page 338.

But the king is the http://www.football-rumours.com/ . Two minutes on this site will give you a dizzying array of new topics to discuss down the pub.

A quick glance today tells us that Robbie Keane is off to Liverpool, David O'Leary is set to take the hot seat at Celtic and Damien Duff will be leaving Newcastle, and that is just the stories with an Irish angle.

Every conceivable permutation of transfer is listed here and the best thing is the source. The rumours are posted by the public so they usually start with "My dad's best mate's sister is the secretary for the head of communications at Anfield and she has seen Rafa's secret transfer target list....."

They then proceed to list 40 players that Liverpool are going to buy in the summer.

However they may be as accurate as anybody else. The first big transfer of the summer took place yesterday. The young Croatian midfielder Luka Modric joined Spurs yesterday for 15.8 Million sterling from Dinamo Zagreb yet Saturday morning's press was full of stories of Modric joining Newcastle.

At least the Modric story was done and dusted in about 24 hours. Over the last few summers we have had transfer sagas that have taken longer to conclude than it takes the Democrats to pick a presidential candidate.

I am sure we all fondly recall the Michael Essien-Chelsea move of 2005, the Carlos Tevez saga of 2007 and the year long move of Henry to Barcelona.

So what will be the move of 2008? Keep an eye on Lampard to Barcelona, Drogba to Inter and Gareth Barry to Liverpool.

It will keep you busy until the next time Nicole Kidman has a baby.

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