FOSTER BACKS WATFORD FOR EUROPEAN DREAM

Watford recent run has seen the team move closer to Europe and have achieved the 40 point mark already with 11 games to go. Watford have been one of the sensation teams this season under Javi Garcia as they have quietly gone on their business.

Watford have been a mid-table team in the past few seasons and one player who believes that they can move to the next level is Ben Foster. The former Manchester United stopper believes that the squad is capable of pushing on to secure the 7^th place position.
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SHEARER: RASHFORD IS THE MAIN MAN

Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has been in impressive form since the arrival of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in December. He found the target once again in Wembley as he helped his club to a narrow 1-0 victory over Tottenham, keeping up the pressure on both Arsenal and Chelsea on the league table.

The exciting forward also got his name on the score sheet against Newcastle United two weeks ago and is now firing on all cylinders again.
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EVANS CONFIDENT OF N.IRELAND COMEBACK

Northern Ireland stretch of winless games in the Nations League – a loss to Austria and then to Bosnia-Herzegovina – may have already edged them out of the competition.

Skipper Corry Evans says the team needs to get to back to its winning ways following the double losses.
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Gareth Southgate expects more from Jack Wilshere

England manager Gareth Southgate has decided to exclude midfielder Jack Wilshere from the squad for the upcoming games versus Spain and Switzerland. The 26-year-old was a surprise exclusion from the Three Lions squad for the recent World Cup in Russia and he has since switched his allegiance to West Ham United after his contract expired with Arsenal.

Speaking in a news conference, Southgate was quizzed as to what Wilshere must do to return to the national team setup to which he replied: “Play well. I’ve watched two of his first three games, so the same as every other player. They’ve got to be playing well and the competition is high.”
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Mourinho Responds Over De Boer’s Rashford Comments

Following the impressive performance of Marcus Rashford in the game against Liverpool, Frank de Boer praised the England international. He added that it is a “pity” that the 20-year old was playing under Coach Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford. The comments certainly angered the Portuguese manager who did not take it lightly.

“I read some quote from the worst manager in the history of the Premier League, Frank de Boer – seven matches, seven defeats, zero goals. He was saying that it is not good for Marcus Rashford to have a coach like me, because the most important thing for me is to win,” Mourinho said. Read more »

Soccer betting is banned in England but not for club owners

Earlier on April of 2017, it was announced that Joey Barton was banned from playing competitive football due some of his actions that the English player committed involving betting on over 1,100 matches. Joey Barton was also fined with a fee of £30,000.

It seems like the same rules that football players have to abide for, club owners don’t necessarily have to follow in the same way.

The Football Association is the governing body of authority in England and they have recently unveiled details which are not as known to the public and it involves club owners being allowed to participate in the world of betting which is what many figures are doing and have been doing for years and even decades.

One example of this is Tony Bloom, the chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion. He is a regular and well-known gambler. His associates established Star Lizard Consulting as a way to provide support for his betting syndicate and it operates like a hedge fund. With over 200 employees which includes traders, analysts and software engineers.

All of those workers were hired in order to provide Tony Bloom with accurate bets on soccer as well as many other sports and this appears to have been going well for the English chairman as he bought a controlling stake in Brighton back on 2009 and has managed to turn the club from competing in League One to their recent promotion into the top tier English Premier League.

Louisa Fyans is a spokeswoman for the Football Association and she revealed details concerning the separate set of rules that club owners have when it comes to betting in the sport as she said: Read more »