But we surely have to agree that the progress since 2020 has been extraordinary. This season has doubled the number of wins, doubled the number of goals, cut the number of defeats to a sixth of what ...
Actually, to clarify that headline, at the moment it is one player, but a mighty important one player. Gabriel Magalhaes (to give him the full name to distinguish him from the other Gabriels in the ...
According to the Sun, the report stated, “The club was made aware in 2016 of allegations that in the 1980s the caretaker had made inappropriate comments of a sexual nature, physically pulled an ...
Moving on, the Sheldon Review found that the FA’s efforts to protect children were utterly insufficient and inadequate. Convictions followed of men such as Bennell, Higgins, Ormond and Heath, and ...
But as ever, the media in England support the code of silence surrounding English games while noting that, “After a series of incidents involving insults and alleged intimidation that have plunged ...
The view seems to be that the situation, both in ultra-silent kow-towing England where the media obey the command of PGMO and rarely mention referees in English matches and in some other countries, ...
And indeed, the record of Tottenham Hotspur owners will forever have a note next to Joe Lewis’ name that he was convicted and then pardoned by Trump. Reviewers in the future can make of that what they ...
Indeed, over half of the clubs in the top four divisions in England have changed their manager since the end of the 2023/24 season. 52 out of 94 in fact. Three of those clubs are currently in the ...
Certainly, most publications are not quite ready to say that Arsenal truly are going to win the league, having said nothing of the sort pre-season. But journalists and their editors do treat their ...
On 7 November 2023, after 11 league games, the table read Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur. At the end of the 2023/24 season, the top four were Manchester City, Arsenal, ...
So, as the disappointment of a draw conceded at the very end fades, the reality of the league table takes over, and it is something which at the start of the season I would have settled on, if offered ...
Matters are evened up a bit by the fact that Sunderland have a range of injuries just as Arsenal do, with six players ruled out: Mouhamadou Habib Diarra, Omar Alderete Fernandez, Leo Fuhr Hjelde, ...