La Liga Matchday 8 It has been a drab few weeks without club football as we had to make do with the mind-numbingly long international break. That is now firmly behind us as the Primera Division was back on with matchday eight fixtures. Perfect start League leaders Barça breezed
La Liga Weekend Roundup The utter dross that is the football international break is wholly upon us, but before it came a weekend full of match-day seven fixtures in the Spanish Primera Division; La Liga. The top four clubs were facing off, and there was bound to be movement
The VAR Revolution: Now With Extra Apologies Remember when VAR was supposed to fix football once and for all? We were promised a golden age of zero mistakes, where high-tech replays would finally give every team a fair shake. Instead, we got a group of refs in a broom
This Saturday, Brighton Hove & Albion offered the 18 other English Premier League clubs the blueprint on how to dethrone the reigning champs. Up until then, Arsenal were looking like an unstoppable juggernaut, steamrolling opponents and imbuing them with low self-esteem. Apart from the lone goal they conceded against
La Liga Weekend Roundup We are six games deep in La Liga, with some top-flight teams producing eye-raising results. It's shocking just how well Barcelona are playing without a typical number nine, clapping a hapless Racing Santander for 7 in the driving rain at the leaky
WHY DO YOU WANT ZIDANE WHEN WE HAVE TIM SHERWOOD? In the summer of 1995, Blackburn Rovers were champions of England. Alan Shearer was unstoppable. Kenny Dalglish was king. And owner Jack Walker — the steel tycoon who grew up on the Ewood Park terraces — would fund anything. Dalglish had a
Manchester is still decidedly blue. ‘Super’ Mario Balotelli confirmed as much with a typically acerbic Instagram post. The departure of long-serving trophy magnet Pep Guardiola and Manchester United’s strong finish last season under Michael Carrick had fooled many a Red Devils fan into thinking a change of guard
La Liga Roundup Matchday 4 in La Liga has come and gone, and with it, some pertinent takeaways with some predictable results and some off-the-left-field. The action started with big boys Madrid playing in front of 60k fans at La Cartuja in Betis, a ground they have
SSC Napoli have been through a lot of them changes since Luciano Spalletti guided them to a long-lusted-after Scudetto three, four years ago. After a somewhat chaotic season under the combustible Antonio Conte, Napoli was thrust into the richly experienced hands of Massimiliano Allegri. Don’t know what
Where we call out the hype, the history, and the headlines you probably missed while arguing about VAR. How Does The Premier League Afford £300k-A-Week? It Is Not What You Think Erling Haaland will earn more during 90 minutes against Coventry on Saturday than most fans in the
Locked out with no takers This transfer window has seen some monumental transfers, with some clubs shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to fill particular positions in their squads (Man City, we’re not pointing at you). But while some kids barely old enough to drive legally have drawn
1. 🏆 Who's Lifting It? League Winner Arsenal- I’d go as far as to say they may pull off another invincible run. Can’t see anyone with the tools to beat them so far. 2. 👑 PFA Player of the Year Dominik Szoboszlai...one of the few highlights of