And so, the start is near. The Premier League will begin the 25th year of its life, and the most successful club in its history will be opening their trophy cabinet once again. ‘But why!?’, I hear you scream into your monitor. ‘United finished sixth (SIXTH) last year!’ or ‘Pogba completely failed to perform’ or […]
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 […]
Priorities — everybody has them. Juggling kids and career, or with a deadline looming, filing a tax return is likely to be more pressing than taking your family out for a nice dinner. The key point is that circumstances dictate priorities everywhere. The same applies to football — specifically, how this season has developed has […]
Pep Guardiola had already taken the unconventional move of revealing he would be stepping down from his role at Bayern Munich at the end of the season, but he revealed the news we had all been waiting for at a press conference on Tuesday: “I want to experience a new city and I want to […]
So, it’s finally happened. Raheem Sterling has left the bright red of Merseyside for the light blue of Manchester. £49 million one way, one young English star of the future the other. But what is the greater significance? Was Sterling wrong to leave Liverpool? Why does £49 million sound so outrageous? And what exactly has […]
What a fantastic display that was last week from Barcelona in a tremendously entertaining game. It was a joy to watch an excellent Barça side assert its superiority over a fellow Champions League contender by toying with them like that. Quite simply, they were too good. And it doesn’t need me to point out that […]
The inquest into Manchester City’s elimination from the Champions League is unlikely to be brief. The 3-1 aggregate defeat by Barcelona in the last 16 has ensured there will be no Premier League club in the quarter-finals this season. It will likely lead to hopefully something more than just naval gazing to try to ascertain […]
