Support for Torres all but gone

John Terry has come out and said this week that said that forever mis-firing striker Fernando Torres has the full support of the Chelsea dressing room, but is Torres’ list of allies at Stamford Bridge diminishing by the week?

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The 3 best defenders in the Premier League this season

With most pundits suggesting that the age of good defending has disappeared, and with this season recording a high of goals scored with 2.86 goals per game thus far, is the art of defending dead? Well, I think it may be dying but not quite dead yet and the defenders below are who I think are the best left in the Premier League.

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Torres proving critics wrong (video)

Fernando Torres has been belittled by many as losing his goal scoring flair, but four goals in two games shows that the instincts are still there.

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Money, money, money in a footballer's world

I remember very vividly the day in August 2008 that Sheikh Mansour took over Manchester City Football club and began investing vast amounts of money into the club. Robinho was bought for £30 million (or something close to that) and a host of world class players were brought in to bolster what had been a mediocre mid-table club, at best, for the past couple of seasons. Now look at them.

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How does our English league move on after the “Terry racism” scandal?

When it comes down to it, what happened regarding the John Terry “racism scandal” was not acceptable or should it have been tolerated, in arguably the “greatest league” in this modern age of football, this league has built its great name and reputation on being a non racist league which doesn’t tolerate any discrimination or racism.

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Are Chelsea better off without John Terry?

Off the pitch, there is not much that needs to be said on why Terry’s absence could benefit the club. Of course, he may be a quite wonderful servant for Chelsea and his rapport with the fans is second to none after Didier Drogba

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If footballers were cars: Top 10

Take a look at this light-hearted list of topflight football players and see what their motor equivalent would be.

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The issue of racism and the FA

In light of the this past weekend and the hullabaloo over the Kick it Out t-shirt snubs, much has been said about the campaign itself and the issue of racism in football is now under the spotlight more than ever. Of course, progress has been mande over the decades but as we have seen in the past twelve months there is still a very significant issue with racism in the football.

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Football taking a backwards step

If it isn’t black footballers being racially abused, it’s instead footballers being attacked by thuggish fans during local derbies.

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What is England’s best central-defensive partnership?

With John Terry now consigned to international retirement, the debate rages on as to who should Roy Hodgson turn to at the heart of his side’s defence as he begins to plot England’s route to success at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, should they qualify.

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English Football Is Embarrassed Once Again

It really has been one of the most shameful periods ever in English football. The game that is loved by billions across the world has been brought into disrepute in the past couple of weeks. There are many things that are wrong with the modern game, for instance the amount of money players earn a week. The main focus will be on the John Terry case, Ashley Cole’s tweet and the topic of diving.

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Can Michael Carrick be an option for England in central-defence? (Video)

When it was first mooted by Roy Hodgson it was at first more or less ignored and those who heard it, will not have had the most welcoming of receptions to the idea. However, if you look beyond the face-value, could Michael Carrick actually be a realistic option in central-defence as England adapts to life after John Terry?

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Hodgson left to deal with the difficult basics of a very complicated case

On Sunday, football again utilised its power to be a relentless provider of headlines; if the highly emotive game between Liverpool and Manchester United or the enthralling battle between Manchester City and Arsenal were not enough to stew over in the evening down-time before most reverted to the weekly grind, John Terry, as if he couldn’t bear to be marginalised by the day’s events, threw his own name into the desperate competition for space of Monday’s back-pages with a decision to retire from international football.

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It’s not Terry’s….It’s?

John Terry had called time on his England career after 78 caps for the national side, deeming his place in the squad as untenable after recent racial allegations were made against him. The former England captain has had a very up and down career for the Three Lions, but who is likely to step up and take his place in Brazil in 2014?

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Pre-Match handshake nonsense needs to stop.

This weekend saw the shambles of the Terry-Ferdinand incident raise it's head again. It's once again made the headlines and left a bad taste in the mouth. Unbelievable really when you think that Arsenal netted 6 this weekend, Manchester United posted a further 4 and Aston Villa recorded their first league victory since the turn of the Millennium. 

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