AG's Football Reports

NEIL Warnock has been named as the new manager of Crystal Palace on a 2 year deal. Palace have been searching for a replacement since Tony Pulis left the club just 48 hours before the new Premier League season started. A string of named were linked with the job including: Malky Mackay, Steve Clarke, Tim Sherwood and Neil Lennon but Palace decided to turn to their former boss Warnock who led the club between 2007-10 before leaving when they found themselves in financial trouble. A statement read: 'Crystal Palace football club are delighted to announce that Neil Warnock has been appointed as the new first team manager.' Palace currently lie second bottom of the table without a point from their first 2 games. Warnock will take control of the game at Newcastle this Saturday. The 65-year old has been given a third chance to manage in the Barclays Premier League after being relegated with Sheffield United and sacked by QPR in January 2012 with the club in 17th place. War...

ENGLAND suffered defeat in their first World Cup game in Manaus. Alex Grace Reports Goals from Italy's Cladiuo Marchisio and Mario Balotelli either side of a Daniel Sturridge strike were enough to give Italy a 2-1 victory over the Three Lions on Saturday Evening. England were undone by defensive venerability's in a display that would please Roy Hodgson. The rue reality is that now England face a scrap to survive when they play Uruguay on Thursday after they were beaten 3-1 by Costa Rica. Whoever loses that one is doomed to elimination at the first hurdle. Towards the end it was visible that Roy's men were tiring in the heat in the Amazon, but he will hope that not too much energy is lost as England face a another tough encounter in Sao Paulo. To add insult to injury Physio Gary Lewin was taken off via a stretcher after he broke his ankle when celebrating Daniel Sturridge's goal. Raheem Stirling put in a brilliant display as England looked dangerous and we...

PEPE Mel has left West Brom this afternoon after 5 months in charge. Mel leaves West Brom Mel won just 3 of his 17 games in charge of the club. West Brom managed a 17th place finish in the table 3 points above Norwich who took the final relegation place. A statement on the clubs website read: “We would like to thank Pepe for his efforts over the past four months in helping to keep the Club in the Premier League and wish him well for the future. “Both Pepe and the Club set out with the best intentions of making the appointment work. However, having reflected on events both on and off the field during our talks today, it became apparent that it was in the best interests of both parties for there to be an amicable parting.  “We are grateful for the manner in which the existing coaching staff and players have rallied behind Pepe to get the Club over the line in what has proved an extremely competitive division.” “Although we have managed to achieve a fifth suc...

BY now we will all be aware that David Moyes has been sacked as manager of Manchester United. Well if u didn't you do now! United pulled the plug on Scot's 11 month tenure after he took over from the legendary Sir Alex Fegurson. Below is Moyes' record as the United boss: Games in Charge: 51 Matches Won: 27 Matches Drawn: 9 Matches Lost: 15 Win %: 52.94 After the breakout on Monday I was not surprised to see the confirmation on Tuesday morning, I was sad to see him loose his job as i feel that he deserved at least another year in  the job to build his own team. Yes he made a lot of mistakes the first being the decision to let all the back room staff when Fergie advised him to keep some of them on to aid with the transition. He is responsible for the mistakes that happened on the field. However, a lot of things that have happened on the field have been individual errors just look at David De Gea's fumble in the Capital One Cup semi -final agains...

FOLLOW along as we join and give a live feed from Chelsea v Sunderland at the 42nd minute HT: Half time Chelsea 1-1 Sunderland. goals from Eto'o and Wickham mean its all level sat the break at Stamford Bridge. 45: BIG CHANCE Terry howler allows Jonson through but can't get his feet sorted 42: Salah crosses for Ramires who's header saved by Mannone before Ramires effort cleared of the line by O'Shea 42: Chelsea double denied by Mannone as he saves from Eto'o and then Salah