The travails of our fantasy football team of capital-born players. Read previous entries here Last week's European action left us wishing Champions League or (soon to be renamed) Uefa Cup goals counted in the Prem. Chelsea's binge on Bordeaux saw Londonist United's Frank Lampard and Joe Cole on the scoresheet, while elsewhere Portsmouth's away win involved the inevitable Jermain Defoe goal and a clean sheet for Sol Campbell. There may have been a Euro......

While the weekend's football may have been dominated by FA Cup upsets, for the red corner of North London, Sunday March 9th was memorable for a more unusual reason. St.Totteringham's Day is one of those arcane bits of football rivalry that makes the game so enjoyable. It falls every season on the day when it becomes mathematically impossible for Spurs to overtake rivals Arsenal in the Premier League. Despite the Gooner's anaemic draw against......

You can tell the vintage of an Ethiopian male by the team he favors... Granddads like Liverpool, dads ManU, and young men Arsenal. The emerging generation seems to be leaning toward Chelsea. Why all British? The BBC, of course. Next to Coke and Pepsi, Arsenal was the most visible Western brand in the country. So says Angry Monk, taker of the above shot of a taxi driver in Awasa. His observations will come as......

This time last year, in the final few days before the closure of the international football transfer window, we took a look at where London's Premiership clubs needed strengthening and offered some friendly advice about a player we thought might fill a key squad gap for each of them. One year on we review what actually happened to both clubs and players and make our suggestions for this year's late purchases, once again taking......

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger added to his recent complaint about cup replays with some further stern words aimed in the direction of London rivals Chelsea and their just announced £80m operating loss for the most recent accounting year: They have a super sponsor. With normal mathematics, minus 80 is minus 80. It is 80 miles below water, and to survive so deep is normally very difficult... I have said many times that all clubs......

The final bill for the Forest Gate 'anti-terror' raid came to more than £2 million, we've been told today. South West Trains is planning to strip seats out of trains on the most overcrowded routes from London to Surrey and Hampshire in order to 'reduce overcrowding'. Thames Water have set themselves the target of installing water meters in every home in London from 2010. Ken has offered TfL and the Met an extra 375......

As the curtain comes up on the Premiership at White Hart Lane tonight, newcomers Watford are busy trying to persuade some experienced hands to come and join them at the outset of their Premiership adventure. We thought we’d take a look at what our clubs already in the promised land have been doing with their transfer funds over the summer and, perhaps more importantly, identify where they still might be a bit short. Off......

The Premiership hasn't even started but already there's a lot to say about this season's football in the capital. Tonight sees most of our professional clubs in competitive action as the six Football League sides are joined by Arsenal playing their Champions League qualifier away to Dinamo Zagreb (live on ITV, 8pm) minus the 'keeper (suspended) and half the defence from their appearance in the final three months ago as everybody continues to work......

Only one goal ahead and four minutes to go it looked as if it might be extra time, but Fisher Athletic hung on to beat brave Hendon 3-2 in the final of the London FA Senior Cup on Tuesday night. Fisher had been 3-0 up after an hour, but Hendon struck back soon after and a late goal made the dying minutes nervous for the leaders before they could finally add this trophy to......

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been voted the best dressed football manager in a survey conducted by Tescos of all people. According to today's Mirror, "His slick and sophisticated outfits left Premiership rivals Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson trailing in his wake. Dapper Arsenal manager Wenger came third after former Newcastle chief Sir Bobby Robson." Of course, a 'best dressed football manager' competition is hardly a difficult prize to win, a fact made......

"Zzzzzz... What? Eh? What have I missed?" If you've just woken up from Saturday's coma-inducing FA Cup Final, you've missed entirely nothing. One hundred and twenty minutes of the most turgid football ever witnessed at an FA Cup Final was followed by a penalty shoot-out which Arsenal won. There's not really a lot more to be said. On the balance of play Arsenal didn't deserve to win. They brought absolutely nothing to the game......

The vultures are circling. Since 1997, the focus of the Premiership has been on the enmity between Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson, as they divided the spoils between them. Now that they are both being left in the wake of a younger, wealthier and better-looking Chelsea manager, the feeling is that two may be company, but three is most definitely a crowd, which must mean that one of these men is going to be......

Colin W*nker (who rather amusingly is also an anagram of Neil Warnock) takes his Sheffield United group of ill-disciplined thugs to Highbury on Saturday (12:30 kick-off, live on BBC1) hoping to batter their way into the Quarter Finals of the FA Cup. They won't, of course, but it'll be interesting to see just how well Arsene Wenger's foreign Premiership nancy-boys deal with pure Football League brutality. Ticket fiasco's aside, Brentford travel to the south......

Professional whiner and sometime Arsenal football manager, Arsene Wenger, had cause to actually smile today (and not one of those wry smiles he does when he implies that another team cheated with what he probably thinks is some kind of Gallic charm, but an actual smile) as Arsenal steamrolled over local businesses in their bid for New Stadium Greatness. To recap, Arsenal plan to buy some ground to put a shiny new stadium on,......

Arsenal are currently second in the Premiership 7 points off the pace after a draw with Man City. Shaun Wright-Phillips hit home a spectacular shot for City and if his footballing career hits the heights it should do we will hopefully be spared the possibility of a father-son duo TV punditry nightmare. Stoke City are visitors to Highbury in the FA cup this weekend and then Arsenal face Bayern in the Champions League next......