Editorials

When Edwin Van Der Sar turned away Nicolas Anelka’s penalty to win the Champions League final back in May, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson must have thought that life couldn’t get any better.His team had held off the challenge of Chelsea and Arsenal to win the Premier League and had defeated Barcelona and Chelsea […]

All the talk of transfer rumours, ridiculous statements by players and senior officials, arguments between managers and players and the never ending saga of the soap opera that is Cristiano Ronaldo’s on-off move from Manchester United to Real Madrid have done the necessary job of helping to fill the interminable time between the end of […]

It is not often that I am disgusted by something that happens in the football world. As anyone who has read this column before will know, I absolutely love the game and am very defensive towards the people who play it.I have tried to defend player behaviour on and off the pitch. I have defended […]

Few things get the football world of fans and media more excited than a public falling out between two big stars. When one big star calls another big star a liar, we have an unseemly public row that nobody comes out of very well and we all thoroughly enjoy!This article at La Gazzetta explains just […]

I know that writers shouldn’t use their privileged position to purge their souls of things that are bothering them, but on this occasion I have no choice but to share something with you all.I have a very terrible confession to make and I think it is appropriate to make a full and frank public admission […]

It appears that former England international and Sunderland manager, Peter Reid, is to be named as the new manager of Thailand. Just take a second to take in that sentence. This is a truly remarkable fact as I would imagine that Peter Reid is hardly a household name in Thailand and let’s be honest, Thai […]

West Brom boss Tony Mowbray faces a tough job keeping the Baggies in the Premier League next season, but without their three best players from last season making a plausible case for a football bet on their survival looks almost impossible.  Last season’s Championship champions have lost defensive kingpin Martin Albrechtsen, goal machine Kevin Phillips, and […]

Can one player make a team? Is it possible for just one man to be the difference between winning things and losing things?The reason I ask the question is because of the possibility of Manchester United losing Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid. Would United have won the Premier League and Champions League double last season […]

Everton boss David Moyes has targeted Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher as his number one transfer target ahead of the new season and is preparing a bid of £4million. Moyes has not yet made a move in the summer transfer market, but after the departure of Lee Carsley to Birmingham the Toffees chief has identified […]

I’m a Chelsea fan. Just thought that I would open with that so the following does not appear to simply be a completely biased piece against the club but I guess in some respects it is.It seems that there aren’t many of us lucky – sic – enough to have supported the Blues prior to […]