The popular opinion across Europe’s football media is that Paris St. Germain have stalled in their bid to become Europe’s top club. Defeat in the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League, for the second successive season, has cast doubts about the club’s strategy and ability to take on the...
Love them or loathe them, Manchester City are demonstrating they are a cut above previous Premier League champions or should we say, champions-elect? Barring a catastrophe, City should win the title at a canter, and they are on target to break a number of records this season. Furthermore, they have...
The rich are getting richer and moving out of reach of the rest of the football world. They’re not only teams, they are sporting conglomerates, wealthy beyond the imagination of the bulk of clubs across Europe, indeed the world. Very soon, we shall have a European Super League, a competition...
Ronald Koeman was recently appointed coach of the Netherlands national team and was given a contract that runs up to 2022.It is a tough task for the man who won 78 caps for his country and played his part in the Dutch European Championship triumph of 1988. But there will...
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR have been receiving lavish praise for their stylish football this season, indeed the past few campaigns, but they still remain a team with a great future ahead of them. They have undoubtedly charmed audiences with their quality, not unlike Tottenham sides from the past, notably under the great...
WHAT an own goal Leeds United scored with their new club badge. It’s a less than serious affair, about as convincing and credible as someone using the Comic Sans font for a magazine, but it also appears to have been designed by a group of creatives who have little idea...
TIME after time, tickets are sold-out at matches but there are still empty seats in the stand at Arsenal, Chelsea and other clubs. Somebody, somewhere, is sitting on tickets that have not been sold. Similarly, they may belong to fans that have failed to turn up. What bemused me at...
EVERYONE was eulogising about Tottenham’s 3-1 win against Real Madrid, and rightly so. It was a very clear signal to the rest of Europe that English clubs can, once more, be taken very seriously in the UEFA Champions League. There have been other victories for English clubs against top opposition,...
A guest post from our friends at Game of the People… EVERTON don’t generally act rashly when it comes to managers, but despite their poor form this season, the most relevant factor in the disposal of Ronald Koeman may just have been the shifting sands at the club.
A guest post from our friends at Game of the People… CARLO ANCELOTTI was sacked by Bayern Munich after half a dozen games and a disastrous UEFA Champions League result in Paris. For a few weeks, people had been suggesting this might be the year in which Bayern’s five-year run of...