It has been a messy start to the season for Manchester United. Their best player Paul Pogba and manager Jose Mourihno have been at odds almost an entire year now and don’t look like making up any time soon. Their three signings consisted of center midfielder Fred for $53 million;...
On Wednesday, Kevin De Bruyne, Man City’s talisman last season and possibly the best player in the league, suffered a knee injury during training. Initial reports suggest that the Belgian could face up to three months on the sideline, leaving Pep Guirdiola with the daunting task of replacing the engine...
Twenty months. That’s how long Andrew Luck, QB for the Indianapolis Colts, will go between NFL appearances — if, as anticipated, he starts on opening day in September. Since leaving the field following a 24-20 win over the 3-13 Jacksonville Jaguars, Luck has seen GM Ryan Girgson and Head Coach Chuck Pagano...
There was a time – in the 1970’s and 1980’s, before the Heysel and Hillsborough Stadium disasters, before the Premier League started – where Liverpool were the single, undisputed football kings in England. From 1892 until 1990, Liverpool racked up 18 First Division titles, four European Cups, and countless other,...
Identity is an underrated facet of football. Clubs build themselves around a certain set of ideals, styles, and objectives, whether it be relegation fighters like Brighton or Newcastle United, or superclubs like Barcelona or Real Madrid. If a club suddenly loses their identity, then serious problems can arise. Take, for...
It started with a header, from Antoine Griezmann, knocked back towards Paul Pogba, the much-maligned and mercurially talented Manchester United midfielder. France were leading 2-1 over Croatia in the World Cup final in the 59th minute, but the Eastern European team had been, if marginally, the superior side thus far...
Crisis is the wrong word to describe the current situation surrounding Chelsea Football Club, a team that, a little over a year ago, was celebrating a record-breaking Premier League title; a team that is the seventh-most valuable in the world; a team that employs Eden Hazard and N’golo Kante, two...
With Belgium set to face Panama in the first Group G encounter of the 2018 World Cup, Jon Kibel asks whether Eden Hazard can take his game to the next level in Russia, as Belgium’s Golden Generation set out to stun the world.
Gareth Bale’s sensational brace in the Champions League final, which secured Real Madrid their third consecutive European Cup, was one of the greatest goals in UCL history, and possibly the Welshman’s swan song for Los Blancos. Notwithstanding the sheer technical brilliance of the strike, the goal was a lone, wonderful bright spot...
Fairly or unfairly, the World Cup can often elevate or deflate a player’s career. Be it either the feather in the cap of an icon or the chains weighing down a should-could-would of player. Maradona, one of the five greatest soccer players of all time, had his shining, legendary moment...