The Blog Columnist

Sunderland would have to search for a new coach following the resignation of manager David Moyes.

After the Black Cats lost to Bournemouth in April, their relegation was confirmed. The result of that game ended their decade long stay in the Premier League.

Moyes met with the board of the club at a meeting in London on Monday. There, the former Everton manager told the chairman Ellis Short of his decision to leave the club.

Many expected the manager to go the path of Rafa Benitez in helping the club return to the top flight as soon as possible. Moyes wished the players and his successor well in bringing the club back to the top division.

Sam Allardyce had exited the team last year to manage the Three Lions when Moyes came in. The former Manchester United coach failed to steer the ship well as the team finished bottom of the league.

Short said the exit of Moyes is “difficult” as he had chased his signature for “a considerable period” before his appointment last summer. He added that the Scot was not taking compensation, referring to it as a “testament of his character.” Short added that the management would reflect on their future and then work on recruitment. Read Full Post…

Legends of football from the Brazilian National team, Roberto Carlos and Ronaldo have expressed their disappointment over ex-Real Madrid teammate Michael Owen’s joke over the former striker’s weight issues.

Attention was then turned to Owen who had tweeted a picture of himself and Ronaldo with the caption: “I thought I was putting the pounds until I saw my old mate Ronnie!”

Angry reactions from football fans with so much slamming Michael Owen for his comments and one user writing: “Don’t disrespect a man that you are not worthy of.”

Real Madrid legend Roberto Carlos in his response to Owen’s joke, he is not happy. Carlos and Ronaldo are good team friends. They both played alongside for Los Blancos and the Brazil National team, so it doesn’t come as a surprise that he had to cover up for an old colleague. Read Full Post…

The Romanians enhanced their World Cup qualifying points’ tally in Kazakhstan with a draw, but, they were angry on the plane back as they fell prey to a theft and lost their personal possessions on the trip.

While the amounts that were in the wallets were not significantly big and they were only in the excess of 500 Euros, the gadgets were expensive. However, regardless of the values of the items lost, the fact of the matter was that it was a theft and any kind of theft happening to a visiting international team is a major security lapse and a major embarrassment to the host association first of all.

But what’s extraordinary after that theft was that when it was reported to the hotel management and they gave it in the knowledge of the City police, no desperate attempt was made in the next 48 hours to track down the thieves and even the officials of the Kazakhstan association didn’t push for a fast probe into the matter. It was as if nobody cared much.

The spokesperson of the Romanian touring party was literally gutted with how lightly the case was taken as he hinted before leaving Kazakhstan that that nobody in his camp had any trust left on the authorities in charge that they would get the items recovered.

He was quoted as, “I don’t think there is any information yet about those who committed the theft and frankly speaking, the progress we have seen so far, none of us is really hopeful now.”