Manchester United 1 v 2 Zenit St. Petersburg: Zenit Win UEFA Super Cup in Monaco

Man Utd Lose to Zenit St PetersburgManchester United have been beaten 2-1 in Monaco by UEFA Cup winners Zenit St Petersburg. Goals from Pavel Pogrebnyak and new £25million signing Danny put Zenit 2-0 up, before a Vidic close range effort gave United hope of a comeback.

Zenit were the better team throughout the 90 minutes, and always looked worthy winners. With more creativity, flare and zest about them, the Russians made United look poor. Read more »

Weekly Football Round-Up: 3rd August 2008

Welcome to the Sunday football summary! I hope you’ve all had a fantastic week, and are not too upset that the weekend is almost over.

With the pleasantries over, let’s get to the action…….

Weekly Transfer Updates

In our first Weekly Football Round-Up we mentioned Read more »

Tottenham Sign Bentley, Pavlyuchenko and Arshavin Next?

David BentleyDavid Bentley has completed his transfer to North London, with a £15million move to Tottenham Hotspur that could rise to £17million. He has put pen to paper on a 6-year contract.

The 23-year-old former Arsenal winger made it clear to new Blackburn manager Paul Ince that he wanted to leave Ewood Park, and Tottenham was always his first choice. Despite Blackburn initially demanding £18million, the club have accepted that Bentley no longer wanted to play Read more »

Tottenham Interested In Arshavin

Andrei ArshavinLatest reports suggest that Tottenham Hotspur are interested in replacing Dimitar Berbatov with Russia’s Euro 2008 star Andrei Arshavin.

Arshavin hit the headlines in June, after his two appearances for Russia against Sweden and the Netherlands - winning the man of the match award in both, and single-handedly turning Guus Hiddink’s team Read more »

Lampard to Inter, Berbatov to Man Utd

Another day of transfer rumours. Speculation and more speculation seems to be rife - possibly due to the boredom created by the space vacated by Euro 2008! It’s increasingly difficult to sort the fact from the fiction, but the team at CLDsport are doing our best to do just that.

According to an English newspaper report today, Lampard Read more »

Russia Beat Netherlands 3-1 After Extra Time

Euro 2008Russia have dumped the Netherlands out of Euro 2008 with a fine performance, once again inspired by Andrei Arshavin. With the scores level at 1-1 after 90 minutes, Russia scored twice in extra time to end the Netherlands’ hopes.

Arshavin missed the first two games of Russia’s Euro 2008 campaign with suspension - and since he has returned Russia have looked a different team. He Read more »

Euro 2008 Roundup: Italy, and Russia Go Through

Euro 2008Well, after some technical difficulties prevented us writing for the last 48 hours, here is a roundup of the action we missed.

Tuesday saw the match between France and Italy - with a place in the last eight the prize for the winner. France’s night started awfully, and got worse……. Read more »