After Liverpool’s 3-1 defeat at the hands of Southampton last weekend, it appears increasingly unlikely that the Reds will qualify for the Champions League spot this season. In spite of a steady form book in 2013, Liverpool remain 9 points off 4th placed Tottenham with just 8 games remaining.
Like a ticking time-bomb, Michael Owen’s retirement was always in the post. However, in spite of its inevitability, the majority of English football supporters will have been gripped by an air of nostalgia and sadness by today’s news that one of England’s greatest ever strikers is to finally hang up his boots.
Olympiacos achieved a 3-0 victory over AEK Athens on Sunday to earn the club their 40th top-division title – their 15th Greek League win in the last 17 years.
We have heard very little of Champions League winner and former Liverpool captain Sami Hyppia since his departure from Anfield in 2009. Yet after ending his playing career in 2011, the veteran Finnish defender now co-manages a Bayer Leverkusen side who are riding high in the Bundesliga.
Philip Hosiner and Arturas Rimkevicius find their names amongst Europe’s elite in this season’s race for the European Golden Shoe, however unsurprisingly Lionel Messi looks set to retain his title having scored 40 La Liga goals already this season.
Celtic lead the Scottish Premier League by 15 points with only 8 games remaining in the absence of arch-rivals Rangers.
With just 8 games remaining, we look set for one of the most dramatic finishes to the Eredivisie in recent memory. PSV’s 2-1 defeat to Heerenveen on Saturday means that four teams are separated by only 3 points at the top of the table.
Rafa Benitez’ exit from Stamford Bridge was always inevitable, rant or no rant, but where will the Spanish boss find his next job once he departs the Chelsea hot-seat?