Make, break or Burnley? A Premier League table preview
Predicting the final Premier League table standings is a near impossible task. Every season there are a group of teams which either exceed expectation, or disappoint. But hey! Although it is a tad...
View ArticlePremier League table prediction – Part Two
As the Premier League kicks off tonight, it really is shaping up to be one of the most competitive in recent memory. With the last four titles being won by seven points or more, you would have to think...
View ArticleFreddy Eastwood – The Basildon boy who became a cult hero and Wales...
Once upon a time, when Gareth Bale was still plying his trade at left back and Aaron Ramsey was yet to burst onto the scene, Wales’ most exciting young attacking prospect was a striker named Freddy...
View ArticleSeven surprising Premier League 2018/19 stats and facts
The Premier League delivered on its reputation as the world’s most exciting competition by serving up all manner of thrilling twists and turns in 2018/19. Manchester City prevailed in the most gripping...
View ArticleMind the gap – How Leicester City and Wolves could catch Manchester United
With the new season on the horizon, all is not well at Manchester United and there’s certainly a possibility it could get worse. Their decision to follow up managerial heavyweights Louis Van Gaal and...
View ArticleJourney to the centre of the UEFA Europa League – Matchday Two
September was a tricky month for UEFA. Those faceless mannequins at the governing body’s lavish HQ in Nyon – those mega-moneyed decision-makers who we love to hate – would have been relieved, like...
View ArticleHave Wolves turned their season around?
At the end of the 2018/19 Premier League season followers of Wolverhampton Wanderers were on cloud nine. They had just enjoyed the best campaign in their club’s long history, cheering as the team...
View ArticleJourney to the centre of the Europa League – Matchday 3
‘O Jogo Bonito’, as the besotted Brazilians would have it. To us: ‘The Beautiful Game’. We know, however, that football has a hideously ugly side too. No, this not another diatribe about VAR’s...
View ArticleJourney to the Centre of the Europa League: Last 16
With hyper-extended league campaigns now completed – and the SPL just beginning – football’s curious calendar continues inexorably into a fourteenth and final month. Completing this unique cycle will...
View ArticleJourney to the centre of the UEFA Europa League – Quarter-finals
When the Europa League finally resumed last week, it did so with more of a damp fizzle than an electrifying bang. Though appetites were whetted for close-fought, epic encounters on the European stage,...
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