How time flies. Less than a year ago, Manchester City had domination – both sporting and financial – lined up in the crosshairs. Premier League champions two seasons running, record-breaking revenue streams and the world’s best coach in the driving seat meant that the...

VAR. Howard Webb. Tom Henning Ovrebo. Anthony Taylor. Chris Kavanagh. What do all of these things have in common? An uncanny, almost conspiracy-theory-inducing way of absolutely bending Chelsea over. Up until this week, it had seemed as though some teams (LiVARpool,...

Fun fact:  the difference between fourth place and dead last is smaller than the difference between 1st and third place and is only two points larger than the difference between first and second place. Liverpool has created a gulf so big, it’s akin to playing...

The FA Cup – if you have to keep telling yourself that the magic hasn’t gone, the magic has probably gone. But gone for who, exactly? Certainly not for Tranmere Rovers who, in the third round, overturned a three-goal deficit away to Premier League Watford, winning the...

An England star injures himself in the run-up to an international tournament. He rushes his recovery in order to make the final 23. Manifestly unfit, he hobbles and winces his way through the competition as a passenger, the television cameras panning theatrically...

At this point it’s fair to ask if Arsenal will make it to 50 points. Historically, 50 points has been about the break-even point to reach the top eight, with a small amount of deviation above or below 50. With only 14 matches left in the season (I know, crazy right?),...

Matchweek 22 brought us a new second place team, with Manchester City drubbing Aston Villa and Leicester City falling prey to Southampton’s surprising run of form. Southampton have now not lost since December 14th and have won four of their last five, bringing them up...

Over 200 career goals, the England captaincy, and on course to becoming the all-time leading scorer for both club and country — by almost any metric, these achievements should be enough to shape even the most eminent of careers. Why then, aged just 26, does it somehow...

It’s a new decade, and already several important England players are injured, with the possibility that one in particular could last months (here’s looking at you, Harry—could you please stop getting injured?). Most of the Premier League’s struggling managers have...

Until mid-2018, the 2010s threatened to be the worst decade in half a century for the England national team. The 1970s – when England failed to qualify for four major tournaments in a row – were an uncontested nadir, the deepest darkest depths of abject failure. But...

When a close friend and footballing mentor began to lose his battle with Alzheimer’s earlier this year, it was the inability to remember players' names he'd watched week in week out which hammered home the cold indifference of this merciless disease. This was a man...

Congratulations, Liverpool, on winning the 2019-2020 Premier League! With Wolves’s stunning comeback to beat Manchester City and Liverpool’s dismantling of Leicester on Boxing Day, the gulf in class (and actual gulf) has proven to be vast. Liverpool are now fully 13...