As excellent as Manchester City and Liverpool continue to be, looking very much all set to continue their duopolistic dominance of the Premier League title race for at least this season and in all likelihood beyond, for the rest of us things aren’t quite so enrapturing. The build-up to Monday evening’s clash between erstwhile title […]
So it seems that rumours of the champions demise (Oops! Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings – Liverpool establish an unprecedented early lead, can we say they are now favourites for the title?) may have been greatly exaggerated, after a surprising slip up away at Norwich, Manchester City ripped their chosen Premier League whipping boys, Watford, apart […]
First of all let me state formally for the record that it is way too early to make any predictions whatsoever with regard to the destination of the Premier League title. Last weekend Liverpool’s comfortable (in the end at least) victory over Newcastle combined with Manchester City’s surprising capitulation away at newly promoted Norwich City […]
So there we go, that’s another Interlull disappearing from view, but what (if anything!) did we learn from it? First of all from an England perspective it seems the front three that is emerging: Sterling, Kane, Rashford/Sancho is enough to rival any in the international game. With a total of nine goals scored in the […]
Anyone who has read this blog at this point in any of the last few seasons will know how infuriating I find Interlulls (©Arseblog) in general but most specifically this one in early September. The season has literally just started to get going and we are all settling back into our regular football-watching routines only […]
It is impossible to dispute the quality of last season’s Premier League title race as Manchester City and Liverpool dominated the season with relentless consistency, both garnering staggering points hauls. However the ongoing arm-wrestle between them somewhat overshadowed just how far ahead they were of the rest of the field, the 25 point difference to […]
On Monday a group of the most influential Arsenal-focused supporter organisations, blogs, and fanzines issued a joint statement damming Stan Kroenke’s “passive ownership” and his lack of ambition, purpose and direction for the club. Since the statement’s issue and associated social media campaign, Arsenal fans in their thousands have been signing the letter/petition in agreement […]
Just for a brief moment on Sunday it looked like the footballing gods may have had another trick up their sleeve for us. When Sadio Mané opened the scoring against Wolves at Anfield after 17 minutes, quickly followed by the news that Brighton had scored against Manchester City, a ripple of cheers spread through the […]
Hands up if you knew all along that Liverpool were undoubtedly going to come back from a 3-0 deficit and eliminate Barcelona on Tuesday night? Having written on these very pages before it happened: “While history tells us Anfield is more than capable of producing special European nights, Liverpool are going to have to get […]
So what happens now? With due respect to Burnley, Leicester and Brighton, it was generally accepted that the biggest opportunity for Manchester City to drop points and to allow Liverpool to seize the impetus in this closest of title races was the trip to Old Trafford on Wednesday evening. However Pep Guardiola’s men got over […]
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