Andre Marriner and Mooted Celebrations: VAR’s 45 Minutes of Fame
7:43 pm Saturday January 27th: “VAR, in use here for the sixth time in a fixture in England, the fourth time in the FA Cup. Today’s VAR sitting 200 miles…
Those “Sanchez 7” shirts won’t sell themselves, VAR was Liverpool’s best player and they still lost and have you had a worse January than Rafa?
Alexis Sanchez. Manchester United. Debut. £400k a week. How many times were these phrases said on Friday night? Probably as many times as Alexis managed to pass the ball to…
That was the week that was: Swaps and the Premier League’s Mark Twain
Apologies for the absence of last week’s column. I was completely snowed under with three University assignments all due the same day. And as you could imagine, it was a…
The Depths of Modern Judgement: Twitter, Phil Neville, Women and Idiots Do Not Mix
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. More fans have access to football than ever before, and yet they get fleeced for it. There are…
The Real Football Man: Neville On The Level
The Neville family dynasty in the world sport has increased over the past week. With the somewhat surprise news that Phil has been appointed as the manager of the England Women’s…
Marinho Muses Cresty the Clown
It’s been another entertaining week in the footballing world, with the intrigue of potentially season-changing transfers and the hilarity of inexplicably poor marketing decisions rife among the sport. Beginning with…
Tales Top Tips: Barry Fry and Neil Warnock to return to mainstream TV sets all over the country
Ah, the romance of the FA Cup. Sure, the 4th Round is never quite as romantic as the 3rd Round but there is still some romance left because there are…
Curbing Your Enthusiasm: The manager has fun with Microsoft Paint
A former Premier League manager approached us here at Tales and asked that we publish his diaries, so he could show the public what life is like out of the…
FA Cup 4th Round Preview: 14 top flight sides remain, but how many will survive round 4?
It’s FA Cup weekend! Which means more clubs will dice with elimination by fielding less than full strength teams on boggy pitches up and down the country. 14 top flight…
Brumours: Olivier Twist, Dzeko Jam and Little PEA
TRANSFER WINDOW PANIC ALERT KLAXON! It’s still almost a week to go until the transfer window SLAMS shut, but Antonio Conte has set the alarms off in Chelsea HQ. Minutes…