It’s a good job Brendan Rodgers reads twitter. Wednesday’s Champions League match against Bulgarian champions, Ludogorets Razgrad, was the first in the competition for Liverpool since Fiorentina won 2-1 at Anfield in 9th December 2009. That defeat did a lot to hammer nails into a Benitez-shaped coffin which had been carefully constructed in Texas for the … Read more
Very few players in the world currently divide opinions as Mesut Ozil. Despite a great honeymoon following his move from Real Madrid to London last summer, the German hasn’t been able to live up to his expectations. But why is his marriage with the Gunners looks to be on the rocks? And after last night’s … Read more
After the opening round of fixtures is almost done, this is my team by team guide and predictions and how I see it all unfolding… Arsenal The Gunners have bought well in this Transfer Window, some will say the best bringing in a world class player in Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona. It may have been … Read more
#453534094 / gettyimages.com Manchester United’s track record of bringing players through is the envy of most clubs, but one area in which the club have struggled to produce too many world-class players is in central defense. When you take a look at the central defenders that have played at the club over the past two … Read more
How Phenomenal Futures Flip-Flopped fast when they fell into a Free-Fall from Being Forced to Face Football Failures. Professional football is one of the most emotional and complex environments I have ever experienced. Football is an international game, but its roots are in the dirt streets of our cities ghettos and barrios. One example in … Read more
The season is 1977-78 and Nottingham Forest have just been promoted from the Second Division, now The Championship. They had finished 3rd behind Wolves and Chelsea. Forest had only ever won the FA Cup in their history, in 1898 and 1959. Promotion was a tight struggle too, as they only finished 1pt ahead of Bolton … Read more
#451109480 / gettyimages.com Roy Hodgson will fly home from this summer’s World Cup in a strange situation. Having guided England to their first group-stage elimination since 1950, the FA chairman Greg Dyke committed his full-backing to the 66 year old and announced he would be the man to continue his job until the 2016 … Read more
This is the end, not only a wildly entertaining comedy, but if the press is to be believed also the tagline to FC Barcelona’s cycle of supremacy. After dominating Spain and Europe for the better part of a decade the Blaugrana didn’t win any titles during the course of the 2013/14 campaign, save for the … Read more
Poland in 1980 was a country where revolution was growing. In the grip of a communist regime since the Second World War, and mainly ruled from Moscow, many citizens had begun to fight back. 1980 was the year of ‘Solidarity’ and strikes in various shipyards, namely Gdansk in the north, was frowned upon by Moscow. This eventually … Read more
Greg Dyke is not a man unfamiliar with controversy. A man, in some quarters, credited with the introducing ‘tabloid’ television broadcasting in this country. Also responsible for reviving the failing TV-AM, and having senior positions at LWT, Channel 5 and more latterly, BBC. As Chairman of The FA he set up a commission to look … Read more