I was actually going to post my article yesterday with the title ’Mourinho: The Rolling Contract’ when news broke from Cobham about the sack of one of the greatest managers we would ever see in football. Was it the obvious? Was it the inevitable? I would say yes to both questions. Short of sacking up…
ARSENAL FANS GETTING USED TO LIFE UNDER WENGER Two rash decisions became the defining moments on Sunday at the Emirates and once again exposed why Arsenal have only qualified for the champions League in eleven seasons, failing to win the title in any of them; strategy, tactics, flexibility. I have listened to players who played…
Potentially four points between the first four teams with ten games to go and several games in hand this is what the fans love to see. I said it last week that Tottenham are one to watch out for as we manoeuvre the last bend towards the EPL title. It’s show time tonight because they…
As I watched Tottenham Hotspurs dominate the North London derby on Sunday, I couldn’t help but notice the array of young talents on display at the Emirates Stadium. To think Dele Alli and Harry Kane among others have only just made their debut in the Barclays Premiership either this season or the previous season is…
Watching Arsenal defeat Manchester City yesterday night just confirmed two things. Arsenal FC have the best chance ever to win a league title and Manuel Pellegrini may not be the one to take this City team to its greatest heights. So what would stop Arsenal from claiming their first League title in more than a…
Several weeks ago, I wrote a piece about Pochettino’s men down White Hart Lane. What I couldn’t understand then was why the pundits were not including them in the title race and I questioned why the work done daily at the Spurs training ground was repeatedly ignored as the pundits continued to shine the light…
THE TILLS KEEP RINGING: AND CASH REMAINS KING IN A SUMMER OF TRANSFER MADNESS £220m, £160m, £135m and still counting…. Premier league clubs up the stakes as the battle for the most coveted and competitive league starts during the summer of mad cash! Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho are both desperate to close the gap…
As curtains draw on the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, football emerged victorious again…. ‘Die Maanschaft hat wieder gewonnen!’ Again, it shows that you can win games with the best player but you need the BEST TEAM to win tournaments! The BEST TEAM WON The BEST PLAYER LOST Is this “THE FOOTBALL” for the next…
There are only nine more days to go and the underdogs are ahead! Were the EPL to end today, Leicester FC would be the Champions of England for the 2015/16 season. Well deserved? Thoroughly deserved? Or lucky? I would say that wherever you find your team on the league table today is exactly where they…
In 1967, Edson Arantes Des Nascimento, popularly known as Pele flew to Nigeria and stopped the Nigerian civil war for 48hrs. The two factions involved in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous city and war bowed to the…