No club’s finances have had a particularly healthy year, but some are certainly sicker than others. In the lower reaches of the pyramid, clubs are reliant on bums on seats: matchday revenues remain the lifeblood of much of the Football League and beyond. In the sunlit Barclays-sponsored uplands, however, the trend has been markedly different. […]
With both Liverpool and Manchester City making impressive starts to their respective Premier League campaigns, the race to reach the other two highly coveted Champions League places is heating up. Tottenham, Manchester United and Chelsea have all lost recently, making the chase even more intriguing. Both Liverpool and Manchester City have excelled in recent weeks, […]
Despite beating Tottenham Hotspur 4-3 in what was an utterly bonkers nightof Champions League football at the Etihad, Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City went crashing out of the competition last week. It was a night that would have made all those of the BT Sport hierarchy relieved, as this fixture alone justified the ever-rising television subscriber […]
Chelsea Football Club’s transfer policy has always been a strange one since Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003. In its simplest form, Chelsea’s tactic is to spend the mega-millions on already ‘proven’ players – who ironically often flop and fail at the club – whilst simultaneously carrying out seedy under-hand deals for […]
There is no betrayal between strangers. Perhaps that is what Chelsea fans will tell themselves if, as looks likely, Maurizio Sarri loses his job at the club of which he only took charge in July. As the team meekly took their leave of the FA Cup, convincingly beaten at home by a recently reinvigorated Manchester […]
After receiving unprecedented praise throughout the media over the past eighteen months, Liverpool’s Egyptian poster boy Mohammed Salah has been heavily condemned this week for his actions during their recent Premier League fixture at Anfield. Klopp’s men were keen to widen the gap at the top of the table in their game against Crystal Palace, […]
Manchester United manager Olé Gunnar Solskjaer is enjoying unrivalled success in the Old Trafford dugout as he gets further and further into his interim role. By the time this goes to print, he may well have even seen off one of Europe’s big guns, Paris Saint Germain, in the first leg of United’s Champions League […]
Friday morning brought about some of the year’s most surprising news, if not the decade’s. Arsenal’s board concluded that now was the time to part company with Arsene Wenger. As momentous as the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the death of John F Kennedy, Wenger’s departure comes as a surprise not because the team’s […]