Can’t we just burn Jim White’s yellow tie?
This week saw one of Sky Sports self-styled ‘most exciting nights in football’ as on Monday 2nd February, the transfer window closed amidst a rush of frenzied, non-anticipation. I have to hand it to Sky. Their insistence that football didn’t exist prior to 1993, that there never was a Football League Championship, or a European […]
Does Mario Balotelli Even Care?
Tuesday night saw Chelsea claim a place in the Capital One Cup Final thanks to an extra time goal from Branislav Ivanovic. In truth, Chelsea already held sway as their away goal at Anfield, was good enough to put them through at the end of extra time. Liverpool still needed to find the net in […]
Transfer Rumours – Sorting Fact from Fiction
Before Jim White dons his yellow tie and spends an evening in a semi-orgasmic frenzy over Nico Kranjcar signing for somebody, let’s take a look at some of the biggest recent transfer rumours.Chiefly to ascertain whether they are likely to be the foaming-mouthed warbling of a hysteric press, or perhaps tinged with a grain of […]
Big Sam Allardyce: a tactical genius or the luckiest manager in the Premier League?
This time last year, West Ham United were lingering dangerously over the relegation places of the Premier League. The East London team were playing poorly, Big Sam was under the cosh from the supporters, and it looked as though they would be destined to play their future football in the lower echelons of the football […]
What’s Going Wrong at Liverpool this Season?
Something isn’t clicking at Liverpool FC this season. Although being unexpected Premier League title contenders last season – narrowly missing out to Manchester City – and qualifying for Champions League for the first time since 2010, the red half of Merseyside can be fairly disappointed with this season’s effort so far. Liverpool find themselves in […]
Personality crisis: footballers a rare breed in BBC Sports Personality
It’s time for that annual gala which celebrates the year-gone-by’s major sporting achievements. Heroic feats of athletic endeavour and superhuman strength combined with steely psychological determination to win against all odds are put to the vote, in which the public can choose which sports-star is not completely and utterly mundane and ordinary as a real […]
10 Best Premier League Games Ever
One of the great debates in football is what league is the best. No matter what your answer to that is, there can be no argument that the Premier League – especially the Premier League of recent years – features the most exciting games in world football. With outstanding games every weekend, it can be […]
Can Southampton Finish In The Top 4?
It wouldn’t be a Premier League season without an unexpectedly bright start from a “lesser team”. Such a team enjoys a fresh start to their campaign with a full squad of fit players, buoyed by a few exciting summer signings, and blessed with an easy run of fixtures. That is until the wheels come off, […]
Is the price of football really that bad?
Last week, a survey published by the BBC highlighted (yet again) the sky-rocketing prices of football tickets in the UK. Taking into account 176 clubs from 11 divisions in British football as well as 31 top clubs from 10 European leagues, the report analysed the the package-cost of an average day-out on the terraces. That […]
5 Black Managers Who Deserve a Job and Why
With just two black managers currently holding a job in English football, the Premier League has recently considered adopting the Rooney Rule in order to get more people of minorities into jobs. Some argue that there aren’t many black managers out there which is why not many have jobs, while others say there is underlying […]