The future of football should be seen as the past season gone, with new life injected into the smaller clubs with Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool and Manchester United all disappointing their fans. There are teams who have been looking for a 40 point survival mark now looking at Leicester and looking further ahead. I had a Stoke [...]
Top 3 players of the season Vardy was simply incredible. Compare him to Costa at Chelsea and it will give you the answer to why Leicester City pulled off a miracle, and no other manager could have done it. Vardy, like Ian Wright at Arsenal, is in his late twenties which will end [...]
If you're not fed up with Jose Mourinho telling the world just how great he is or Luis Van Gaal how many countries he's won finals in then there is something wrong with you, especially if you saw Hibernian manager Alan Stubbs interview in the lead up to yesterday's Scottish equivalent to our FA Cup. [...]
Stoke City: Alan Hudson likes the look of Mark 'Fergie' Hughes STOKE legend Alan Hudson is confident that the club's summer transfer business will cushion the blow of losing Asmir Begovic and Steven Nzonzi. He also believes that Glen Johnson can enjoy a second wind at the Britannia – and is sure Mark Hughes [...]
THE MICKEY THOMAS STORY That was all on the playing side of things, which is of course the most important part of our game. Just look at what Brian Clough did at both Derby County and Nottingham Forest. Look at Sir Alex at Manchester United and what Jose at Chelsea, Inter Milan and [...]
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD This was the biggest ever story that has ever come out of the English press about the game in the USA, whether it NASL or MLS, as Frank Lampard and Steve Gerrard (two England captains of recent years) come face to face in Los Angeles. The [...]
SOUNDERS EXPECT BRAWL IN CRUCIAL WESTERN CONFERENCE SHOWDOWN WITH SALT LAKE CITY The Seattle Sounders have weathered a summer that's included a combination of depth-depleting injuries, international absences, suspensions and a franchise-record goal-scoring drought. But now, they've finally snapped out of their recent slump with a resounding 4-0 blowout of Orlando City SC at [...]
The most asked question of me is “what was your finest moment?” Although you’ll go on to read that signing for the Seattle Sounders turned out to be my most life changing experience, in football terms I had the most bizarre and mind blowing week of my life in March 1975. After a disastrous spell [...]
I have been impressed with what I have seen so far and keep thinking of our record breaking side playing the present team in the new stadium, because that would be very interesting. That bring me to something that happened at Stamford Bridge one day when the chairman of Chelsea, in the 80s, asked [...]
FROM CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TO CHAMPIONS RETIREMENT LOOSE BUTTON On Saturday 25 April 2015 Tony AP McCoy made his last appearance on a racecourse, but before he did Channel 4 paid tribute to the 21 time champion on the Morning Line. My interest here began, like McCoy, with Toby Balding, for as a 16-year-old Apprentice [...]