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Kolkata's premier league Soccer:IPL style league for football

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:20:10 +0000

Premier League Soccer is a football league which is similar to the Indian premier League(cricket) when it comes to style. There will be team owners and bidding for players will take place. Composition of squad for all six teams 1)Six U-21 players 2)Six from regional catchment area 3)Four foreign players(1 icon,one Asian and two over [ Read More ]

Manchester United Trophy Tour to continue with India visit on Feb 4th

Karan Israni — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:57:21 +0000

Manchester United's Trophy Tour is set to continue after successful tours of Manchester, Latin America and parts of Asia, and will make its way to 27 new destinations, including India, Turkey, Korea, Tokyo, Vietnam and Norway. United's official logistics partner DHL will partner the 19 times Champions in the four-month long tour, which kick-starts in Delhi on [ Read More ]

Bayern Munich trash India 4-0

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:27:36 +0000

India had a testimonial match vs Bayern Munich today at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and India as most expected lost the match.Bayern Munich scored 4 goals in the first half but the second half was completely blank.Infact India played extremely well in the 2nd half. Today was Bhaichung Bhutia's last international match.He has been a [ Read More ]

FA Cup 4th round draw announced: Manchester United get Liverpool, Chelsea slated for QPR -- #RacismRow all over again?

Karan Israni — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:26:16 +0000

Well, they couldn't have scripted this. Two of the most talked about fixtures during the close of 2011, both of which witnessed a cult accusation of racism - one solved and another yet to reach climax - will be replayed in the 4th round of the world's oldest cup competition, the FA Cup. Manchester United's [ Read More ]

Paul Scholes rejoins Manchester United, to start from bench in today's crunch Manchester derby

Karan Israni — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:20:24 +0000

Widely recognized and hugely popular English midfielder Paul Scholes has decided to come out of retirement and rejoin the Red Devils, the club announced in a statement shortly ago. Scholes had hung up his boots at the end of last season after an illustrious career with United, but had to reverse his decision at a [ Read More ]

Apple, Google battle it out for EPL rights

Karan Israni — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:29:15 +0000

As mouth-watering and far-fetched as it may sound, but the world's most successful tech company Apple has finally decided it is time to have a bite in the multi-million pound Premier League pie. With the iTunes subscription infrastructure already in place, Apple deems it the right time to make a move to acquire the TV [ Read More ]

Gary Neville coming to India this January!

Karan Israni — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:02:23 +0000

An out-and-out Red, a Manchester United legend, winner of eight Premier League titles, three FA Cups, one UEFA Champions League title, and one FIFA Club World Cup, Gary Alexander Neville will soon be in India to paint the town Red. The ex-United and England right-back will arrive in Mumbai on January 12th at the Manchester United Cafe [ Read More ]

Sehwag breaks world record-Scores 219 in ODI's

Aman Milwani — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:20:42 +0000

Virender Sehwag,the top class Indian batsman,scored a double ton today vs the west indies.This double hundred became the highest score in the history of one day cricket.Previous best was by Sachin Tendulkar(201) but this time Sehwag with his 219 created history.

Manchester United gives India its first three official merchandising stores

Karan Israni — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:45:43 +0000

The world's most successful football club, Manchester United has finally decided to open its official merchandising store in India, and while they are at it, they are beginning with three. Manchester United Merchandising (MUML) has teamed up with Indus-League Clothing Ltd., part of the Future Group, to announce the launch of three new exclusive Manchester United [ Read More ]

Andrew Symonds to enter Bigg Boss 5 this week

Karan Israni — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:06:47 +0000

Renowned Aussie cricketer Andrew Symonds is reportedly packing his bags and getting prepared to enter the Bigg Boss 5 house later this week. Symonds, remembered more controversially for the monkeygate saga involving Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh a few years ago, will be the second international celebrity to enter the show after Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone. He [ Read More ]

FA Cup 3rd round draw announced: Manchester Derby awaits

Karan Israni — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:45:24 +0000

The draw for the 3rd round of the world's oldest cup competition has just been announced and has one particular mouth-watering fixture standing out from the rest: Manchester City vs Manchester United. The fixtures are scheduled to be played over the weekend of 7th and 8th January 2012. Here are all the fixtures that are [ Read More ]

EA Sports launches new FIFA 12 commercial (video)

Karan Israni — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:48:14 +0000

Leading game maker EA has released a new FIFA 12 TV commercial and is hoping to convince you to get the game this Christmas, if you haven't already. Starring in the ad are Wayne Rooney, Gerard Pique, Ricardo Izecson Dos Santos Leite (a.k.a Kaka) and others. Via Wayne Rooney