By Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports
The difference between victory and defeat in Wednesday’s UEFA Champions League final boiled down to the width of the post, as Manchester United beat Chelsea in a penalty-kick thriller.
The enduring image will be Chelsea skipper John Terry being inconsolable and in tears after missing the kick that would have taken his [...]

By Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports
Roman Abramovich’s millions have turned Chelsea into one of the top teams in Europe, but for all of its individual talent, not one of the club’s players makes Yahoo! Sports’ Premiership Team of the Season.
The West London club has kept the Premiership race alive until the final day of the campaign. [...]

By Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports
Soccer’s purists in England will never stop bemoaning the top-heavy nature of the English Premier League until a team from outside the Big Four makes a serious and consistent bid to break up the long-standing status quo.
However, the ongoing dominance of Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal is having a knock-on [...]

By Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports
LONDON, England – The future of many of the United States’ Premiership exports has rarely been in a greater state of flux.
A total of 12 Americans play in England’s top flight, but of that group only three – Everton’s Tim Howard, Blackburn’s Brad Friedel and West Ham’s Jonathan Spector – are [...]