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Manchester United has long been the most popular team in the world, with fans ranging from the estates adjacent to Old Trafford, to the depths of China and Africa. But what exactly makes so many foreigners support the club? There is a long standing debate that most Manchester United supporters aren’t from Manchester, many are from London and the majority are not even from England.

New England Sports Ventures (NESV), the owners of the Boston Red Sox will take over Liverpool after a legal dispute with the current American owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks is settled by the Premier League. Hicks and Gillett have expressed their unwillingness to sell the club, and in a bid to prevent its sale, have tried to replace managing director Purlow and commercial director Ayre with their own nominees including Hicks’s son.

The Super Falcons are the U-20 National female of Nigeria. They participated in the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women World Cup hosted by Germany, where they created history as the first African side to get to the final of the FIFA Women World Cup.

The Flying Eagles of Nigeria made football history at the 1989 World Youth Championship held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, when they came from 4-0 to eventually win their quarterfinal clash with USSR. It was a game that saw the best of Christopher Ohenhen and Nduka Ugbade who captained the Nigerian side.

Peter Beardsley signed for Liverpool in 1987, for a then British record transfer fee of £1.9million, from Beardsley’s hometown club Newcastle United. Beardsley made 175 appearances and scored 59 goals for Liverpool, with his pace and natural flare he became a true Liverpool legend…

Ian Callaghan was a Liverpool football legend. Born in 1942, Callaghan supported Liverpool as a child and he went on to join Liverpool as an apprentice before becoming a regular in the Liverpool first team. During his eighteen years at the club, Ian Callaghan made a record 857 appearances for Liverpool…

Samson Siasia led a team of youngsters to the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup hosted in Egypt hoping to create an impression. Unfortunately, the team performed woefully much to the disdain of the soccer loving Nigerians.

The Flying Eagles of Nigeria are the National U-20 soccer team of Nigeria. They were part of the FIFA U-20 World Youth Championship held in the beautiful city of Canada.

The FIFA U-17 World Cup was hosted in the beautiful city of Scotland. Among the participating countries, were the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria who won the tournament in 1985.

The world football governing body FIFA has descended its disciplinary hammer on Nigeria for what it termed ‘Government interference in football matters.’ This action has long been awaited by a lot of soccer followers, following the protracted tussles between government authorities and The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF).

UEFA Euro Cup 2012 is a famous international football tournament hosted by Poland and Ukraine, this tournament is meant to start 8th June 2012 and will last till 1st July 2012. In this tournament there will be 16 strong nations competing for the Euro Cup 2012. We still do not know which teams will participate as they are still playing the qualifying matches, however we can speculate that strong teams such as: Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal, England, Holland, Greece, Sweden and the hosts: Poland and Ukraine would qualify for playing 2012 Euro Cup.

The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria won the 1993 U-17 World Cup hosted by Japan and expectation was high that they would do better at Ecuador 1995. Their expectation was however cut short when they got eliminated at the Quarterfinals.