Arsenal must look for help at home

In 1930, Herbert Chapman, one of the most successful, innovative and forward thinking football managers in the history of the beautiful game, signed a young Austrian goalkeeper called Rudi Hiden for Arsenal. The transfer was about as unlikely as today’s Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, signing an English player, for international transfers, in the 1930’s, were almost unheard of.

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The Man City fan that backs United and Fergie every year...to fail that is!

After a long, not so hot ‘Summer’ break, the Premier League season is inching closer to its return, and there’s no better place to take the pulse ahead of the new season than the local bookmakers. The off season has given the equestrian fanatics and A.P.

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Everything you need to know about the ‘autobiographies’ of football stars

For me, commuting up and down the country on dull, typecast trains with about as much atmosphere and personality as Gareth Southgate can only be made bearable by the companionship of a good book.

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A lesson from Mexico for Chelsea & Abramovich

A rather unpleasant and expensive disagreement continues to rumble on this week between the French and the Mexicans. Allow me to offer those of you who haven’t anywhere near the amount of free time I have to observe these delicate matters, a brief rundown of the story so far.

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Motivating millionaires

There are few managers today that truly understand how modern day footballers tick - extracting that extra winning 10% from multi millionaires, who already have a life that stretches beyond any of our wildest imaginations, is a talent that few possess.

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Footballers behaving badly

To footballers, lost in their never ending oasis of pound notes, starry eyed glamour and runaway egotism, shooting an intern on work experience must seem like a right hoot!

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A lesson in football attire

So remember if you’re at a football match anytime soon and you see your manager wearing a dog eared, muddy tracksuit, you march right over and tell him to go change and stop being so uninspiring!

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Why breakfast really is the most important meal of the day

So the Everton enigma rumbles on. The fans at Goodison are hardened to a few ups and downs by now, but this season has proved more unpredictable than an Ian Holloway news conference.

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Discarded shoe fuels transfer rumours

Who is the Nottingham big foot?

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How Guardiola’s influence is stretching beyond the boundaries of the football world

Watching F.C. Barcelona’s attacking wizards effortlessly float around the final third of the pitch leaves both spectators and opposition defenders star struck and in awe.

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