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December 28, 2016

The Flip Side of Safe Standing

Last week, a good friend of mine pointed me in the direction of some rather wise words of advice from a programme dated March 4th,…

December 17, 2016

Two Cheers For The Gang of Five

Smedley Butler isn’t a name you often hear round these parts, so let me fill you in. ‘Old Gimlet Eye’, as he was affectionately known,…

December 10, 2016

Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City—‘two roads diverg’d…’

On Wednesday 5 May 2010, a single Peter Crouch goal gave Harry Redknapp’s Tottenham Hotspur side a 1-0 victory over Manchester City, thereby pipping Mancini’s…

December 9, 2016

Are Leicester struggling to find a balance?

Nobody can take away from what Leicester managed to achieve last season in a fairy tale story that shocked the football world. Going from avoiding…

December 6, 2016

Should Jose Mourinho be criticising his Manchester United players?

Footballing observers are still debating how Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea fell apart in such dramatic fashion last year. Ineffective tactics, unfit players, a lethargic pre-season and…

November 26, 2016

Was this former West Ham boss the victim of entrapment?

It is nearly two months on from the dramatic conclusion of Sam Allardyce’s brief tenure as England manager. The former West Ham and Sunderland boss…

November 23, 2016

Arsenal V Tottenham: The battle of midfields

Midfielders define how a team play. It’s a boring statement, but when you think about how a side functions tactically, midfield players are often the…

November 10, 2016

Is British football institutionally homophobic?

It’s a question that has long been swept under the rug when talking about football. The Premier League’s complete absence of a gay player has…

October 10, 2016

Sweet F.A.

Here’s how it works, from top to bottom. The current FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, recently told reporters that the “mechanisms in place related to…World Cup…

September 14, 2016

Has West Ham’s spate of football ‘hooliganism’ been wildly exaggerated?

West Ham’s transition to life at their new home, the ‘London Stadium’, has been far from routine. A set of disappointing results- coupled with a…

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