The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
• Defender seeks return to London, Fulham likely destination • Centre-back languishing on bench since Birmingham defeat Anton Ferdinand is looking to leave Sunderland in January after failing to convince his manager, Steve Bruce, that he is good enough to hold down a starting place. Bruce appears have run out of patience with Ferdinand and has left the £8m signing from West Ham on...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Behind the scenes disagreement over footballing ideologies could threaten Tony Pulis's success story Superficially, all seems well at Stoke City, but the club's serene public face masks a mini-crisis of ideologies being fought out behind the scenes. Although Tony Pulis's side stand mid-table in the Premier League and the possibility of relegation, let alone managerial change, appear comfortably remote,...
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Stoke City defender Danny Collins winning the North East Football Writers' Player of the Year award is no slap in the face of his former Sunderland boss Steve Bruce. read more
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Stoke City defender Danny Collins rates Wolves boss Mick McCarthy as scarier than Roy Keane! read more
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
ROY KEANE may have established a reputation as one of the best paint-stripping managers in the business but Danny Collins claims nobody comes close to Mick McCarthy.
BBC Sport - Phil McNulty blog (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Cumbria may have played host to the World Gurning Championships on Saturday - but it is tough to imagine any of the lovingly-crafted pained expressions matching those on show at The Reebok. Bolton fans wore masks of agony for almost the entire duration of a joyless match where even the relief of Matt Taylor's last-minute penalty and a first home point this season did not spare manager Gary Megson...
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Sunderland boss Steve Bruce has again defended his decision to sell Danny Collins to Stoke City . read more
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Steve Bruce let Danny Collins join Stoke because he felt he was close to landing a replacement.
A Different League (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Dave Kitson, what are you? Some sort of carrot-topped amalgamation of Marco van Basten and Garrincha perhaps? Probably not. But a hooked finish from the ginger striker was the difference between Stoke and Sunderland in a dour encounter at the Britannia Stadium last Saturday, and having also scored the winning goal in Stoke City’s Carling Cup tie against Leyton Orient the game before, Kitson...
TEAMtalk (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Sunderland manager Steve Bruce allowed Danny Collins to join Stoke because he felt he was close to landing a replacement.
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Sunderland boss Steve Bruce has defended the sale of Danny Collins to Stoke City . He said: “I can understand why people were surprised about Danny moving on. read more
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Steve Bruce fears he may have gaffed selling Danny Collins to Stoke City . read more
Football.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Danny Collins has revealed that he wanted to stay with Sunderland and was surprised when Steve Bruce allowed him to join Stoke City...
Fantasy Premier League (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
transfer window wrap-up courtesy Yahoo!UK/Eurosport : Everton signed Dutch defender Johnny Heitinga from Atletico Madrid for six million pounds (6.8 million euros) just before the transfer window shut on Tuesday. Heitinga agreed a five-year contract with the Premier League club and the move was announced in the final hour before the 1600GMT deadline. The 25-year-old follows French defender Sylvain...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
"Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again ?" Well, if you can't be as depressed as Morrissey on transfer deadline day, when all the hopes and rumours turn out to be false dawns, when can you? As the dust settled on a day that promised far more than it eventually delivered, the revolving doors were at Fratton Park and...
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