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1. 1. Tackling the top football brains trust

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 08 June 2005 MENSA and the Barclays Premiership this week made a bid to find Britain's No 1 football genius. Mike Whalley, who claims his mind is full of useless football trivia, went along to the Manchester heat to see how he measured up.

2. 2. The grass is greener

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 16 June 2005 THE rise of the indoor soccer centre may not, after all, be behind the sharp decline in park football.

3. 3. Mikel transfer creates a riddle

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 June 2005 CHELSEA face the most severe sanctions ever imposed on a football club if FIFA investigators find that anyone representing the Premiership champions attempted to persuade John Obi Mikel to turn his back on Manchester United.

4. 4. Fans' breakaway club deserves success

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 16 June 2005 WHEN I first read that a group of disenchanted Manchester United fans were planning their own breakaway football club, I burst out laughing. As crackpot ideas go, I remember thinking that this was a beauty.

5. 5. Timid officials are giving Chelsea free reign

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 27 June 2005 JUST as I knew they would, when the gutless, spineless officials of the Premier League and the Football Association had the chance to slap Roman Abramovich into place they all ran for cover like the timid rabbits they are, writes Paul Hince.

6. 6. Passport to Premiership

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 11 June 2005 Manchester City Academy supremo Jim Cassell believes Bradley Wright-Phillips' first real experience of inter- national football will give him a springboard to flourish in the Premiership.

7. 7. Dutton looks up

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 16 June 2005 JON Dutton, the Manchester FA's chief executive, is optimistic that parks football will bounce back, aided by the city council and organisations such as the Football Foundation, Britain's largest sports charity.

8. 8. Sven backs women for Euro glory

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 03 June 2005 THE top names in English football have expressed their support for the nation's women's team on the eve of the European Championships.

9. 9. Family fanfare for goal heroine

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 07 June 2005 I'D walk a million miles for one of your goals' was one of the fans' famed terraces chants and it could well have been the Barr family's theme tune. Substitute `walk' for `drive' and Irene and Tony Barr haven't missed a kick of their 23-year-old daughter Amanda's football career in England.

10. 10. SWP source of optimism, says Brooking

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 14 June 2005 SIR Trevor Brooking believes the emergence of young stars like City's Shaun Wright-Phillips proves the future of English football is "in a very healthy situation".

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