Life after football: What do the players do next?
After my recent article on Djibril Cisse and his bizarre career move, or should I say moves, I started to wonder what other players did after retirement. During my research…
Today’s Tales: Why does Arsene talk about title races like they are still in one?
Well, if you give MP’s enough things to vote about eventually they’ll get one right, hey? Yesterday, in some old building somewhere, MP’s posted a vote of no confidence against…
Phil Neville: fly on the wall
Phil Neville knows what he is talking about. This is not up for discussion because that isn’t how Phil operates. It isn’t a matter of opinion, right, it’s a fact!…
The Forgotten Footballers of the Top Flight
There always seems to be some forgotten football players, the sort that genuinely never get a game and you didn’t even realize were still alive. It actually turns out that…
Why is the modern Premier League goalkeeper so bad?
The vast amount of money poured into the Premier League in recent years has ensured that the quality of football available to the select group of fans in their forties…
Why I Love Football (aka Reasons to be Cheerful…)
Oh, the things that give me pleasure about football – the Beautiful Game throws up such wonderfully unexpected and entertaining curved balls (who has?) – and it never fails to…
Is the Chinese Super League actually the BFG?
“Wayne allowed his eye to travel further down the street. Suddenly he froze. There was something coming up the street on the opposite side. It wasn’t human. It couldn’t be.…
Cisse calls it a day to be a DJ
I’ve seen some odd story’s in the last few weeks, the one I am about to describe is probably the top of end of weird stories. Former Liverpool and various…
Today’s Tales: Claudio shouts “no crisis” at anyone that will listen
I have to hold my hands up, I feel as if I am in the kind of “Today’s Tales” scoring drought that only Jamie Vardy could relate to. I mean,…
Bring back the tackle!
What constitutes a bad tackle? Back in the day we used to all applaud a tackle that took man and ball or sometimes just man. It used to be a…