Written by Football NerdJuly 3, 2020

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Congratulations Liverpool – more than worthy Champions- but what can we expect for the future for the new English football rivalry?

Reading the thoughts of uber football expert Jonathan Wilson in the Guardian last week (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/26/dont-be-tempted-to-think-klopps-blueprint-has-superseded-guardiolas) in the immediate aftermath of Liverpool being crowned champions, one fact from his piece stood out: “It is a measure of what an astonishing season this has been from Liverpool that if Manchester City had won every match they played […]

Written by Football NerdMarch 12, 2020

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Football will inevitably be affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

It was something of a throwaway line at the end of last week’s post: “Of course if the daily scaremongering about the potential impact of the coming of the apocalypse, or as it is more familiarly known: Coronavirus, is true to its word we could be facing a situation where we see the completion of […]

Written by Football NerdMarch 6, 2020

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Liverpool fall short of invincibility while travelling fans are shown their place yet again.

Liverpool falter at Watford So that’s it! After 422 days Liverpool’s hugely impressive run is at an end. A shock 3-0 defeat at Vicarage Road by Nigel Pearson’s Watford, who started the day in the midst of a relegation dogfight a whopping 55 points behind the runaway leaders, finally brought the seemingly unstoppable Red juggernaut […]

Written by Football NerdJanuary 31, 2020

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings – the FA Cup has lost a significant part of its lustre but the powers-that-be are actually making it worse.

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 […]

Written by Football NerdJanuary 10, 2020

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Liverpool pull even further ahead, while positivity seems to breaking out at the Emirates.

Where did that go? With three rounds and a total of thirty Premier League matches played out in just eight days from Boxing Day to the 2nd of January, the Festive Period flew by in a whirl of live matches and questionable scheduling and we now find ourselves having emerged at the other end of […]

Written by Football NerdNovember 8, 2019November 8, 2019

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings- All eyes on Anfield for a must-not-lose visit by Manchester City.

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 […]

Written by Football NerdSeptember 27, 2019

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings – City bounce back (and how!) but is their and Liverpool’s dominance worrying for the Premier League?

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 […]

Written by Football NerdSeptember 20, 2019

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings – Liverpool establish an unprecedented early lead, can we say they are now favourites for the title?

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 […]

Written by Football NerdMay 17, 2019

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings- City pip Liverpool to the title but is this the start of an era of dominance by the top two?

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 […]

Written by Football NerdJanuary 25, 2019

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings – The title race Mexican standoff continues.

The problem with a title race that looks very much like it is going to go right down to the wire is that we find ourselves very much waiting for something determinant to happen. Many sage commenters and analysts are suggesting that both Liverpool and Manchester City are capable of breaking the ninety point threshold […]

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