Category: Football

Spring is here and as we see first snow drops, then crocuses, then daffodils, then tulips, fruit blossom and bluebells, the cyclical nature of life is apparent. Night follows day, follows night, the tides ebb and the tides flow. Sport, like much of nature, tends to be cyclical too and…

With the March international break behind us, and England recording the two routine wins that everyone expected them to achieve, thoughts turn back to domestic action. Most teams, however, will have to wait a little longer for the football to resume, because before the Premier League gets going again, we…

Manchester United are one of the biggest and most successful football clubs in the world. And yet, in recent times, they have become, dare we say it, something of a laughing stock. Since Sir Alex Ferguson left the club, over a decade ago now, at the end of the 2012/13…

Manchester United are the most successful team in English football and that fact is even more evident when we restrict ourselves to the Premier League era. They have won the Premier League title a massive 13 times, finishing second on a further seven occasions. Manchester City, however, are second, with…

Back in May 2024, Manchester United upset the odds to overcome Manchester City in the FA Cup final in front of a packed Wembley Stadium. Kobbie Mainoo was the Man of the Match and scored one of his side’s two goals as they produced a superb display to claim a…

There are several important dates in the football calendar that come around every year, and that fans will have in their diaries, or certainly in the back of their minds. The date that the new season’s fixtures are announced is one, the first and last games of the campaign, the…

Football fans always want to see the best players strutting their stuff on the biggest stages possible. Manchester City superstar, Erling Haaland, is doing all he can to ensure his nation, Norway, play at the highest level. He scored a hat-trick in his side’s 5-0 hammering of Kazakhstan on Sunday,…

Rúben Amorim will commence his role as the head coach of Manchester United on 11th November, 2024 after managing Portugal’s Sporting for four and a half years. But before he left his role at the Lisbon club, the footballing Gods determined that Amorim’s final home game for Sporting would be…

Dutch boss, Erik Ten Hag, was dismissed as manager of Man United on Monday the 28th of October, 2024. In a football world where there is very little patience, both the fans and board at the club gave the former Ajax coach every chance to succeed but in the end…

London has a lot of great things, and if you’re from the north of England, or elsewhere in the UK, one might even say it has too many. The capital certainly gets more than its fair share of funding for local transport and the arts, for example, but let’s try…