Chelsea striker Fernando Torres admitted victory over Manchester City tasted sweeter after he capitalised on a late defensive blunder to secure a 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge.
After the mid-week transfer sagas, football was once again on the agenda on Saturday night for Week 2 of the Zanzibar FC season.
Liverpool fear that transfer saga over controversial Uruguay striker will reignite during January’s transfer window.
After weeks of speculation, wantaway striker Mohammed Mahdi handed in a transfer request which prompted the move to Harambee Stars.
Even by footballers’ cynical standards, Mohammed Mahdi’s contempt for his ex-teammates, employers, supporters and profession is breath-taking if not entirely unexpected.
Sweden international Zlatan Ibrahimovic single-handedly destroyed the Anderlecht with four-goals in the 5-0 rout.
Four of the five teams that lost their opening game last weekend have delved into the transfer market in an attempt to strengthen their squads.
Harambee Stars, Mogoka FC, Polisi Dodoma and Mozambique Stars have all seemingly have lost faith in their squads after only one game.
Manchester United manager David Moyes shows his dejection after Southampton equalise.
It has been a long time coming, but the 2013/2014 Zanzibar FC season kicked-off in record breaking style.
For the first time is ZFC history, there are 10 teams taking part with a total of 120 players.
The opening weekend saw a staggering total of 36 goals including three hat-tricks and one four-goal haul.
Chelsea Manager Jose Mourinho thinking about his ZFC picks for 2013/2014.
By Feroz Mir
The second and final part of the two part installment of the “ZFC Season Preview”.
Read the first part “Season Preview – Part 1” here.
England Manager Roy Hodgson thinking about his ZFC picks for 2013/2014.
By Feroz Mir
There are many ways to measure the overall performance of a team when preparing to make your 2013/14 ZFC predictions. Some examples, looking at ex-captains drafting their players who have played amazing with them, the top 10 scoring leaders from the previous season, players coming together from other tournaments, players who are new to the league.
Steven Gerrard celebrates scoring England’s second goal against Poland and sending the Three Lions to the World Cup.
Not to be mistaken with the Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, brothers Rizwan and Sibtain Merchant received the call up to play in this seasons ZFC competition and neither of them could turn the offer down.
The Zanzibar FC 2013/2014 Fixtures are now available.
The full Zanzibar FC fixture list has been released. The season will kick-off on Saturday, 19th October.
Dates for the first eight match weeks taking place in 2013 have been confirmed. Dates for the 2014 games will be confirmed soon.
With 120 players in the league this season, Zanibar FC has introduces a disciplinary committee to oversee any unruly incidents.
Zanzibar FC has introduced a new 3-panel disciplinary committee to review player conduct at the Toronto City Sports Centre throughout the season.
The 3-panel board consists of Hisham Ali, Hassan Syed and Muhammad Kara.
Barcelona and Argentina superstar Lionel Messi celebrates Zanzibar FC’s expansion to 10 teams.
Due to the overwhelming number applicants for the hotly anticipated 2013/2014 ZFC season, the league has been expanded to 10 teams.
The original 96 spots were filled up in a record breaking 2 hours and 44 minutes and the application forms kept on coming in.
With the expansion there will now be 120 players taking part in the new season and therefore the 10 team captains will have a lot of research to do before this weekend’s draft.
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