Editorials

Bristol City take on Hull City at Wembley Stadium later this afternoon. At stake is a place in with the elite of the English Premier League. The game has been called the richest club game in the world as the winners stand to make a cool sixty million pounds.We have a really exciting battle that […]

All the league titles are decided, all the relegations are decided and there remains just a few play-off games and cup finals to be played. We are very close to entering the Summer madness of transfer speculation.The media in England are obsessed with transfer speculation. Of course, after the national side’s pitiful performances recently they […]

I know I am going to upset an awful lot of people with my article today but at the end of the day I am paid to give my opinions and sometimes those opinions will rub some people up the wrong way. I am really glad that Chelsea didn’t win the Champions League final last […]

In these days of madness, when a football manager’s job is one of the most precarious professions in the world of employment it is heartwarming indeed to see the story coming out of Reading Football Club yesterday.Following the club’s relegation from the Premier League it has been announced that their manager Steve Coppell will remain […]

The UEFA Champions League final is almost with us. Manchester United and Chelsea do battle at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on Wednesday evening. The battle between England and Europe’s top two teams is being excitedly anticipated by fans around the world.The game which will be the two hundred and thirteenth game in this season’s […]

The mind games are in full swing ahead of the Champions League final on Wednesday night. After Joe Cole said to the press that Cristiano Ronaldo is not as good as Messi, Nemanja Vidic has suggested that Didier Drogba sometimes goes down too easily.Last week Avram Grant hinted that referees show unfair bias towards Manchester […]

Cristiano Ronaldo has had the kind of season that even he could only ever have dreamed of having. Everyone knows the statistics. Forty-one goals in forty-five starts. A quite remarkable season that has seen him play an instrumental part in Manchester United retaining the Premiership and on Wednesday evening, trying to add the Champions League […]

Today should be a day that all football fans have been waiting for with baited breath, counting the days until it arrived.It is FA Cup final day. Years ago this was undoubtedly the biggest day of the season in English football. I remember all of the finals from my childhood. Television coverage of the teams […]

Tommy Burns was a legend in the game and was one of the few men from Glasgow who managed to be loved, or at least respected, by both sides of the ’Old Firm’.Despite being Celtic, through and through, Rangers assistant manager Ally McCoist recently said about him, “He is an absolute gentleman. You would never […]

FA Cup final ‘minnows’ Cardiff City will be using the dry land equivalent of the skin tight suits that recently revolutionised swimming for the big match on the 17th. The team will be wearing high-tech Australian compression clothing called ‘Skins’ to squeeze an extra yard or two on the Pompey players. The tops and half-tights […]