Articles By: Charlie Scott 
A sometime English student and self-confessed football obsessive. As soon as I realised, at the age of about 14, that unlike in my dreams, I wasn’t going to be a professional footballer for Tottenham Hotspur I began considering alternative careers. For the past two years I’ve written about football for the Newcastle University paper, and last year spent an enjoyable month or so being The Observer’s Ghana fan as part of their ‘World Cup Fans Network’ (Damn you Luis Suarez). I try to take in as much football as I can, but focus most of my attention upon the top divisions in England, Spain and Italy along with any major european or international competitions.
Charlie Scott / August 22, 2011 6:42 pm
Charlie Scott takes a look at the major talking points from this weekend’s English Premier League games. 1. Wenger has money. He needs to spend that money on a centre-back. Enough said. 2. Mancini loosens the leash on his armoury of attacking talents. David Silva was superb as City won 3-2 against Bolton on Saturday, and his performance acted as
Charlie Scott / August 15, 2011 12:44 pm
A surprising set of results this weekend saw Manchester United the benefactors in the early stages of the title race as Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea all dropped points against supposedly lesser opposition. Liverpool 1-1 Sunderland Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw at home to Sunderland despite dominating procedures in the opening 45 minutes. They could, and should, have been
Charlie Scott / August 13, 2011 10:41 am
Charlie Scott completes his look ahead to the start of the English Premier League season by previewing the remaining clubs Newcastle to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Looking at their strengths and weaknesses, giving his predictions as well. Newcastle United Players in: Yohan Cabaye (Lille, £4.8m), Demba Ba (West Ham, undisclosed), Mehdi Abeid (Lens, undisclosed), Sylvain Marveaux (Rennes, free) Gabriel Obertan (Manchester United,
Charlie Scott / August 11, 2011 10:15 pm
Charlie Scott looks ahead to the start of the English Premier League season by previewing Arsenal to Manchester United. Looking at their strengths and weaknesses, giving his predictions as well. Arsenal Players in: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Southampton, £11m), Gervinho (Lille, £11m), Jon Toral, Hector Bellerin (Both Barcelona, undisclosed), Carl Jenkinson (Charlton, undisclosed) Players out: Gael Clichy (Manchester City, £7m), Jay Emmanuel-Thomas
Charlie Scott / July 6, 2011 4:45 pm
Despite Charlie Adam’s best efforts of throwing people off the scent earlier by tweeting ‘day off today from pre-season just sat watching sky sports news’, his long-anticipated/excruciatingly drawn-out transfer to Liverpool was completed this afternoon for a reported fee of around £9m. After failing to conclude a deal during the winter transfer window for the 25-year-old the club announced today
Charlie Scott / June 24, 2011 3:21 pm
Alan Pardew is overseeing a changing of the guard at Newcastle United this summer as Mike Ashley advocates a drastic overhaul of the first team squad. Established players that remained at the club despite relegation and propelled them back into the Premier League are being shown the door while a number of players with little to no Premier League experience
Charlie Scott / June 14, 2011 8:48 pm
Life is all about choices, no matter how large or how small. A life can change in the blink of an eye, or the spin of a wheel. Charlie Davies, who is currently battling it out with Landon Donovan and Thierry Henry at the top of the MLS goal-scoring charts, has experienced this first-hand. When Davies broke the curfew set
Charlie Scott / June 8, 2011 11:56 pm
As the summer’s transfer window begins to simmer ambitious players lift their skirts and flutter their eyelids- while Robbie Keane professes his boyhood allegiance to a host of clubs-in the hope of securing a lucrative move. This year a striking similarity has emerged among some of those receiving attention from the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Manchester United;
Charlie Scott / May 26, 2011 9:00 pm
Toure’s brief suspension merely a reminder of the huge task on Mancini’s hands of trimming down and refining Manchester City’s overpaid, overpriced squad this summer… Official Football Association statement: Manchester City defender Kolo Toure was today suspended following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing at Wembley. Toure was handed a six month suspension, commencing from 2 March 2011 (the date of
Charlie Scott / May 4, 2011 1:13 am
Picture this. You are an experienced Premier League manager with a talented young English player on your books, yet competition for places is fierce and you feel that they are not quite ready for the pressures of first-team football at a high-profile club where your every move is monitored and critically judged by fans, players and board-members alike. You see
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