A new era beckons at The Bernabue. Cristiano Ronaldo’s shadow no longer cloaks the dressing room and Zinedine Zidane, who led Los...
The usually unflappable Jose Mourinho has been looking increasingly flustered of late. Perhaps with good reason, given he is entering his infamously...
It’s a hard life. Professional football is a swampy land filled with pitfalls, some of which are deep. Gonzalo Higuain’s excavations have...
In Sid Lowe’s excellent book, Fear and Lothing in La Liga, the author makes some very astute observations about the nature of...
Unai Emery’s first official match is in the books as Arsenal manager. While the final result wasn’t ideal, it’s not necessarily as...
Three thousand Leeds United fans stand in the south-east corner of Derby County’s Pride Park stadium singing “You’ve only come to watch...
There was a time – in the 1970’s and 1980’s, before the Heysel and Hillsborough Stadium disasters, before the Premier League started...
The summer transfer window is done and dusted for another year. As always there a number of clubs who have done very...
It’s May 3rd, 2014. I’m standing in the heavens of St James’ Park, just making out the coloured dots that pass for...
I remember Alex Smithies’ first start for Huddersfield Town. He’d come on as a late replacement after Matt Glennon was sent off...