So what did we all think about the match that Sky billed as “the biggest game of the season so far”: the clash between Liverpool and Manchester United last Sunday? Titanic struggle full of drama, excitement and entertainment, or damp squib through which even self-confessed football obsessives found it difficult to keep our focus on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Say what you like about Jamie Carragher and his tactical analysis work on Sky Sports but no one could deny that the former Liverpool captain: a) knows a thing or two about defending, or b) played every single game in his career with unquestionable commitment and passion; so when someone like that questions the character, […]
With two non-league sides featuring in the last sixteen of the FA Cup for the first time since 1920, the narrative was set for this year as the year when the magic of the FA Cup was restored. As impressive as Lincoln City’s win away at Burnley was, and the way that Danny Cowley’s men […]
In the first meeting between Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho in the Premier League, it was the Catalan super coach that drew first blood. For the first 40 minutes of the game at Old Trafford Pep and his team gave us a glimpse into the future of English football; demonstrating the complete embodiment of his […]
With the majority of Premier League clubs sorting their business in advance of transfer deadline day, it meant that there were only a few major breaking stories to be continually rehashed across the media coverage. The main talking points centred on the return of David Luiz to Chelsea, Tottenham’s purchase of Moussa Sissoko and Georges-Kevin […]
The normal order of things was restored to my life with the return of the Premier League over the weekend. First up in the lunch-time kick-off, champions Leicester were defeated by a newly promoted Hull squad that had no manager, only 13 fit players and have been largely written off by everyone. In many ways […]
The 2015/16 season was one in which the traditional hierarchy of the Premier League was shaken up; not so long ago it was perm four out of a maximum of six for the top four and pick one of Chelsea, City or United for the title. However the under-performance of the traditional Premier League big […]
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