Broadcasters regularly tell viewers the Premier League is the greatest league on Earth. However, as Lionel Messi’s hat-trick against Manchester City in the Champions League demonstrated this week, for all its riches, British clubs fail to attract the very best players. While Messi, Neymar, Luis Suarez, Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale have been praised for […]
Premier League
Why Vardy should leave Leicester
It’s easy to sympathise with fans who cry foul at the frequency with which players have their heads turned by another club. Although football players’ careers are short, few acknowledge the loyalty their club show them in times of injury or loss of form. The latest indications are that Jamie Vardy will buck the trend […]
Why Giggs should stay at Old Trafford
During the torturously laboured contract negotiations between Manchester United and Jose Mourinho, one of the most frequently discussed topics in the media was the potential impact the deal would have on Ryan Giggs. It is widely believed that as Mourinho puts his faith firmly in a close circle of lieutenants, Giggs will almost certainly be […]
Transfer tribunal fails to show its teeth again
The Professional Football Compensation Committee has ruled Liverpool must pay Burnley £6.5m plus a potential £1.5m fee in add-ons following Danny Ings’ move to the club last summer. Although a record figure, it seems a relatively paltry sum for a 23-year-old England international who would have expected to gain further honours had his season not […]
Swans gamble to protect top flight status
A 60-year-old foreign manager with a nomadic managerial career is drafted in by a club desperate to avoid returning to the lower league football which its fans had previously become accustomed to. It didn’t work out for Fulham and Felix Magath, and questions have to be asked whether it will work for Swansea City and […]
Hammers expose Liverpool’s frailties
Two of the league’s least consistent sides met at Upton Park this weekend as West Ham hosted Liverpool. Prior to the match it was difficult to predict a winner with any confidence – would the West Ham that defeated Arsenal and Manchester City turn up, or the side that had won only one game in […]