Tag Archives: Features

06 FEB

Rampaging Ox justifies Wenger’s faith in youth

By Harley Tamplin Arsenal supporters do not need reminding that the end to this season could leave them seven years without a trophy. The barren spell is the biggest mystery in the last decade of English football, and Arsene Wenger’s struggles have fuelled pub debate in North London and beyond.

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05 FEB

On a wing and a prayer

By Greg Sykes Is there any finer sight in football than a winger in full flight? At a juncture where the ‘art of tackling’ within the Barclays Premier League is shrouded in controversy, it is also a time to reflect on the joy provided by some of the men referees are trying to protect. The [...]

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04 FEB

Neil Warnock and the fate of English managers

By Matt Bruce You have to feel sorry for Neil Warnock. Not because his recent dismissal from QPR was unfair – a run of nine games without a win is justification enough at any club, let alone one that has invested so heavily to earn its place in the top flight – but because Warnock, [...]

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31 JAN

The Sweetest Success Of All

By Natalie Whitehouse There is one feeling in football that surpasses the rest in terms of pure jubilation: promotion to the Premier League. Whether it’s the sense of belonging to the elite twenty, or simply the anticipation of the season ahead, one thing’s for sure: everyone wants to be part of the best league in [...]

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23 JAN

Clint Dempsey: Worth His Weight In Goals?

By Michael Timbury Debatably, Clint Dempsey is the best player in the Barclays Premier League not playing for a team considered as one of the ‘big six’. Of course Liverpool’s occupation of seventh place in the table muddy the waters a little as to whom exactly makes up the big six so perhaps it’s clearer [...]

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23 JAN

From Russia with love?

By Charles Scott Location aside, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham have little in common, something that suits their own fans down to the ground. They do however share one similarity. Each has invested large sums of money on highly rated Russian internationals in recent years without seeing any kind of positive return. Despite promising much and [...]

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21 JAN

Loyalty in Football

By David Johnson Loyalty is an incredibly intriguing concept within the realm of football. There seems to be no middle ground on the issue with fans completely polarized on the morals or lack thereof of modern footballers. Some feel that it is an inevitable by-product of the wealth that has been injected into the game. [...]

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19 JAN

Swansea FC: A brief history of the ultimate yo-yo team

By Jamie Rose Swansea Football Club, since its inception in 1912, has experienced the sort of rise and slump extremities that lead one to assume they must, over the years, have been run on the basis of some strange rotation system exclusive to near-messianic legends and the clinically insane.

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13 JAN

Craig Bellamy: Bargain of the season?

By Seb Pearce Transfer deadline day: a frantic day of big-money moves, rumours and reporters camped outside every football ground in the country anticipating the arrival of a potential transfer. Away from all the multi-million pound moves, it seems that the best piece of transfer deadline day business, made by Kenny Dalglish’s Liverpool, crept under [...]

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13 JAN

Why the Barclays Premier League Reigns Over Spain

By Will Van de Wiel The recent migration of Premier League luminaries like Cristiano Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso and ‘Cesc Fabregas to the Iberian peninsula, has led those with a continental bias to proclaim La Liga as the world’s best football league. Witness the recent FIFA awards – nine of the World XI hailed from Spain. [...]

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