On April 20th, the official PFA Premier League Team of the Year for 2017 was announced amid the usual fanfare and camera flashes. The final selection always stirs up healthy debate on who should or shouldn’t have been included. The team they went for was as follows: David De Gea, Kyle Walker, David Luiz, Gary […]
“A poor workman blames his tools” – a village elder type. Over the past few years, David Moyes has perfected the art of blame deflection. He has attributed his atrocious managerial record since leaving Everton to a thousand and one reasons and factors seemingly beyond his control. The most bizarre part of this self-written fairy […]
There are few managers in the world as divisive as Pep Guardiola. Of course Jose Mourinho is divisive but it’s in a different way. Everyone knows he’s a top manager it’s more of a question over whether you like him as a man. But Guardiola is different. Some think he’s a genius, that he has […]
Francesco Guidolin is the first Premier League managerial casualty of the season. He has tumbled over the precipice, he’s through the door, the thread he is hanging by has snapped and the skin of his teeth has torn. Use whichever cliché or adage you like, the capo from Castelfranco is on his bicicletta and it’s […]
White Hart Lane truly is the land of the rising Son. Tottenham’s modest bit-parter has been suddenly thrust centre stage, drawing praise from all angles for his recent performances. Spurs attack had been slow to get going this season, and while results had been steady, their forward play hadn’t been at its penetrative best. It […]
A little over a year ago I wrote an article on here where I spent the better part of 2000 words calling Jose Mourinho an asshole. I was pretty unapologetic about it. However, there was this one particular paragraph that filled me with dread as I typed it, where I contemplated the potential future destinations […]
On the face of it, escaping with a draw from a rain sodden pitch in Belgrade looks an excellent result. But the final score of 2-2 doesn’t properly reflect what was a strange evening for the Republic of Ireland. Having started the game superbly, netting early on through Jeff Hendrick, Ireland retreated to the confines […]
Mike Dean aka the Gesticulation Guru, the Wirral Waver, the Big Deal in Body Language and general self-appointed centre of the football universe has come in for heavy criticism recently over his officiating. Usually Dean is deserving of criticism, though some would say he is an easy target as he dances across Premier League pitches […]
Bastian Schweinsteiger has been made to train with the Manchester United reserves by Jose Mourinho – a demotion deemed so despicable that a veritable army of supporters have mustered to publically defend Schweinsteiger’s honour. Bastian’s older brother and Bayern coach Tobi Tweeted the words “No respect” in solidarity with his sibling, his boss, club president […]
It’s half time in England’s 3rd last World Cup qualifying group game and they are 0-2 down to Slovakia at Wembley. It’s a game they need to win to rescue any chance of making the Finals in Russia. England’s players stare at the floor as Sam Allardyce tears them to shreds. His face shines a […]
