Gareth Southgate’s England face a huge challenge tonight when they host Slovakia - their biggest threat to automatic qualification to the 2018 Fifa World Cup. Southgate’s side have come under scrutiny following a below par performance against Malta on Friday night. A 4-0 victory doesn’t reflect how sloppy England were, ...
22.59: Birmingham £3m for right-back Maxime Colin, from Brentford 22.55: Brighton have signed Tim Krul on loan from Newcastle 22.50: Leicester sign Aleksandar Dragovic on loan from Bayer Leverkusen. 22.35: Farhad Moshiri, Everton’s majority shareholder, confirms Barkley changed his mind and will reassess options in Jan. 22.23: Arsenal's Joel Campbell to Real Betis on loan. 22.20: Barkley’s ...
Chelsea’s title defence has gotten under way in mixed fashion. After suffering a shock home defeat to Burnley, the Blues have come back strong finding last season’s form and winning their next two games, first against Tottenham, and then against new look Everton. You can’t blame Chelsea fans for worrying ...
Football is big business – a massive global concern dominated by a handful of major clubs that resemble multinational corporations in their business behaviour and their ability to sweep-up cash. There’s no doubt that, at the top of the ladder, the product offers good entertainment and excitement, but the polarisation ...
After all the panic and Twitter turmoil in the build-up to Sunday’s game at Newcastle, it ended up being an easy win for Spurs. Goals from Dele Alli and Ben Davies, in for the injured Danny “I know my worth” Rose, secured all three points for our boys against a team that ...
Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The first weekend of the season is always a difficult one. How will the new boys bed in? Do they get on with the local lads? ...
As we move into what by rights should be a relaxing summer weekend – the Premier League is back, the trees are still green, books to read and lawnchairs to sit on – unless we choose to completely ignore the news our nerves are as frayed as a university student ...
We’re so close! The start of the 2017/18 Premier League season is a mere two days away, when Arsenal play Leicester on Friday. For Spurs, it’s a trip to St James’s Park on Sunday. How hyped am I? Not very. This summer is shaping up to be something of a ...
There is one great truth that ties all revolutions in common and that is they never burst out in surprise. History, or at least when current events have been aged in the cask long enough to be classified as history, always has shown that there were warning signs, hints, foreshadowing ...