So how are we all enjoying the Premier League’s very first Mid-Season Break then? Will we accept the annoying reduction in fixtures for the greater good in terms of the positive impact it will have on English club’s chances in the latter stages of European competition and on our national team’s hopes at the upcoming […]
As damming a defeat as it was in terms of any vague slither of belief they may have held that they could haul back Liverpool and somehow claw their way back to shaping some form of challenge to the Anfield club’s procession to the title; it was the way that Manchester City found a way […]
It has become traditional at this time of year for anyone who comments upon, writes about, or simply watches English football to express a view on the world’s oldest cup competition, the FA Cup, and whether it has lost its ‘magic’? There are essentially two schools of thought at play: either that the Premier League […]
While Liverpool march on relentless towards their first championship in 30 years, the chasing pack and the rest of the so-called ‘Big Six’ continue to stumble and squander points and generally make a mess of any semblance of a challenge to the Anfield club’s ongoing dominance. The only questions remaining around this season’s title race […]
So another round of Premier League matches and another round of ridiculous VAR interventions. This last weekend alone we had: two goals disallowed, one a last minute ‘equalizer’, and a penalty award overturned for a marginal offside decision in the same game between Leicester and Southampton; Jeff Hendrick’s ‘opening goal’ for Burnley disallowed at Stamford […]
None of my Liverpool supporting family or friends will thank me for this in anyway as they won’t want to jinx it, but with Jürgen Klopp’s side sitting proudly atop the table, eight points ahead of ‘surprise package’ Leicester City and, probably even more crucially, eleven points clear of reigning champions Manchester City; it is […]
In case you missed it (as if!), the self-proclaimed “Special One” is back, after using his brief stint as a pundit on Sky Sports to issue some thinly veiled “come and get me” soundbites, he seemingly helped convince the powers that be at Tottenham that the only way to salvage their season, even this early […]
As much as the rest of us can admire the relentless title race arm-wrestle between Liverpool and Manchester City which is now in its third instalment, it does very much feel as if we are watching on from a distance. The very real sense that unless the two closest pursuers in Leicester and Chelsea can […]
Watching Arsenal over recent seasons, since Arsène lost his magic touch at the time of the premature break-up of the Invincibles, with the evident disinterest of an owner concerned only with the bottom line value of his asset and an apathetic, if not increasingly disenfranchised fanbase, hasn’t been an especially thrilling experience. The dog days […]
After the apparent indignity of being made to play and captain a team made up of youngsters looking to stake their claim for a first team spot, squad players and some returning from long-term injury against Nottingham Forest in the League Cup a couple of weeks ago, Mesut Özil seems to have gone missing again. […]
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