The next round of Premiership action provides nine fixtures, four of which are televised. Many of them on television sets. Saturday is an early start, with Spurs at home to Blackburn is on Sky Sports 1 HD at 12.30 and Hull City vs Arsenal is on ESPN at 16.45.

The Three O’Clockers are Chelsea vs West Ham, Stoke vs Villa and Birmingham vs Everton.

Sunday sees Manchester United Fulham at 1pm on ...

Manchester United ginger ninja Wes Brown may have been nursing an injury or two the past few years. But at least he has the loveliest of Nurses to look after him. The one and only Leanne Wassell.

Whilst Wes Brown has been idly winning trophy after trophy at Manchester United despite little game time, his now wife Leanne Wassell has been keeping out of the limelight so to speak. At 32 years ...

Today’s Arsenal players are a soft bunch of wallies ain’t they? Gone are the days when you had to be a right proper mental geezer to play for the Arsenal. Tough tackling, dodgy dealing, drug taking, prostitution, demolition derby driving, it’s all here as we look through the rogues gallery of The Gunners top 5 proper rotters!

5. Patrick Vieira – One of the many French players to fall in the bizarrely ...

Stacey Cooke is the wife of that bloke you might have heard of called Ryan Giggs. You know the one that has got grey hairs and still manages to play the game? Mind you he has played more than 800 times for the same team!

Cooke and Giggs had a completely low-key wedding, in 2007, at a registry office, although it was a love match. I wonder if Hello magazine tried to gatecrash…

The mother of two children, who are uniquely named Zach and Liberty, ...

This weekend sees Hull City host the mighty Arsenal. But beyond the array of part time hod carriers and French exchange students, what are the integral differences, those things that set apart these two great clubs? Oh sod it, who cares? Let’s have a look at their shared strong points -funny looking blokes managing them.

Seconds away round one.

HAIR.

This was always going to be a close round. Arsene sports a look ...

Manchester City are preparing an audacious swoop for Stamford Bridge’s more off than on the boil golden boy, Joe Cole. Whilst the Daily Star announced that a move to the red side of Manchester was more or less ‘nailled on’, word reaches the Tavern that this isn’t as done a deal as it might be suggested.

Now seasoned Transfer campaigners amongst you will be familiar with the way a certain Premiership ...

Tottenham are, if you’re able to cast your mind’s eye more at the 9-1 and 0-3 victories against Wigan rather than the foul ups against Wolves, having one hell of a season. Gomes appears to be by and large a happier bunny. Bassong is settling in nicely, Dawson might yet make for Captain material and Ledley King is finall getting the bubbles just the size he likes them best in ...

This just in and it’s gold.

Tottenham Hotspur and England footballer Peter Crouch has been named the funniest man in British sport, topping the poll of the best one liners and comedy football moments of all time.

The 6ft 7in Tottenham striker won top billing for a cheeky response to the question: “What would you be if you weren’t a footballer?”

The Spurs targetman replied: “A virgin.”

Mysterious de la Souza – forgotten perhaps, but not gone? 

The rate and force with which the revolving door at Eastlands turns has made it easy to forget some of the players and staff it has flung out while sucking others in. It has ejected several MCFC people, who at the time we thought very highly of and would surely miss. Players we were supposedly mad to sell, or perhaps to ...

Tottenham striker Peter Crouch is unquestionably having the form of his life. His goals to game ratio is solid enough, but even more impressive when you take into consideration the quantity that have been scored when he’s emerged from the substitute’s bencd to do so.

Behind every great man is a great woman. And with the possible exception of Ronaldo who appears to have a veritable conveyor belt of hot chicks ...

What a difference a tackle can make. In December 2007 when Fabrice Muamba injured Gareth Bale, which would rule him out for the rest of the season, Bale was considered one of Tottenham’s brightest young stars.

He had scored 3 goals from left-back including a superb free kick against the scum. It could be said he was one of the only successes to the start of the end of Jol. Therefore ...

Whilst ultimately it was a certain Jimmy Greaves who would go down as Tottenham’s greatest ever goal scorer and striker, it was Les Allen that partnered Bobby Smith in Tottenham’s infamous double winning side of 1960-61.

Allen was born in Dagenham, and like Jimmy Greaves and a whole host of other East End boys, actually begun his professional playing career at Chelsea, where at 17, he joined the club as an amateur ...

Even Ronaldo makes mistakes... this t-shirt for example.

For those of you that didn’t fancy wasting £15 on a football bloopers DVD (or VHS if you’re old school) last Christmas, never fear, the Transfer Tavern’s got your back. Rather than listening to Ian Wright make a lot of bad jokes at the expense of players playing in the Vauxhall Conference, here’s a selection of the Premier League’s ‘big four’ getting it all ...

Official Tottenham Hotspur freestyle player Billy Wingrove is known the world over for his football tricks and skills.

The 27 year old London born footballer was signed up by Tottenham Hotspur in 2003 as their official ‘football freestyler.’ He now takes part in charity events, half time entertainment and helps launch the new shirts for the White Hart Lane side. Billy Wingrove became a freestyler through practising at his local park. Instead ...

24 February 1973 FA Cup Round 5                    Manchester City 2 – 2 Sunderland Attendance:    54,478.                                                                          I got everything I needed as an eight year old going to my first ever City match; hat, scarf, gloves, dad (Brian) and grandad (Eric) as we drove along Princess Parkway towards Moss Side the home of Manchester City.   We parked what seemed miles away near Alexander Park and we weaved our way down the side streets amongst the huge ...

Champions League duals are oft remembered for the tactical and psychological battle between rival managers. Think Mourinho V Benitez, Mourinho Ancelotti or basically any other big game ‘the special one’ has managed in.

In the Champions League, Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson takes on Leonardo Nascimento de Araújo, or simply Leonardo, in the last sixteen. Ferguson of course has about 24 years of experience managing one of the world’s biggest clubs, ...

Are you the Manchester City fan that they’re after? Cos we is a hirin’.This is the card in the newsagent’s window. This is the Wonka Bar you’ve been waiting for.

As part of the vertible kaleidoscope of Manchester City footballing fun and hi jinkery in general we’re looking for match reporters. You might be a season ticket holder, you might be some grotesque and obese couch bound sloth living in a high rised flat on Coco Pops and chip sandwiches but have 327 ...

Are you the Portsmouth fan that they’re after? Cos we is a hirin’.This is the card in the newsagent’s window. This is the Wonka Bar you’ve been waiting for.

As part of the vertible kaleidoscope of Portsmouth footballing fun and hi jinkery in general we’re looking for match reporters. You might be a season ticket holder, you might be some grotesque and obese couch bound sloth living in a high rised flat on Coco Pops and chip sandwiches but have 327 channels ...

Are you the Burnely fan that they’re after? Cos we is a hirin’.This is the card in the newsagent’s window. This is the Wonka Bar you’ve been waiting for.

As part of the vertible kaleidoscope of Burnley footballing fun and hi jinkery in general we’re looking for match reporters. You might be a season ticket holder, you might be some grotesque and obese couch bound sloth living in a high rised flat on Coco Pops and chip sandwiches but have 327 channels ...