MAHREZ JOINS THE LEGENDS When Leicester beat Chelsea 2-1 at the beginning of the season, what surprised me at the time was not the score line, but the way Mahrez made a meal of the Chelsea defence continuously and most especially, Cesar Azpilicueta. Twice he dazzled and mesmerised the Chelsea defence and also Azpilicueta, one…
DIY IS ALWAYS EXPENSIVE How do you get a job done that you don’t know how to do? You either hire a professional to do it or you train someone to become the professional to do it. Villa board did neither of the two, they just tried to do the job by themselves. The problem…
LEICESTER DEFY THE BIG BOYS WITH ATTITUDE AND WORK RATE With nine games to go last season, Leicester City FC was three points adrift and rooted to the bottom of the league table, down and out. As Leicester City stared at relegation with eight games to go, something changed at the football club: team and…
There are only nine more days to go and the underdogs are ahead! Were the EPL to end today, Leicester FC would be the Champions of England for the 2015/16 season. Well deserved? Thoroughly deserved? Or lucky? I would say that wherever you find your team on the league table today is exactly where they…
Potentially four points between the first four teams with ten games to go and several games in hand this is what the fans love to see. I said it last week that Tottenham are one to watch out for as we manoeuvre the last bend towards the EPL title. It’s show time tonight because they…
Several weeks ago, I wrote a piece about Pochettino’s men down White Hart Lane. What I couldn’t understand then was why the pundits were not including them in the title race and I questioned why the work done daily at the Spurs training ground was repeatedly ignored as the pundits continued to shine the light…
ARSENAL FANS GETTING USED TO LIFE UNDER WENGER Two rash decisions became the defining moments on Sunday at the Emirates and once again exposed why Arsenal have only qualified for the champions League in eleven seasons, failing to win the title in any of them; strategy, tactics, flexibility. I have listened to players who played…
RAFA BENIT-END AT MADRID It’s curtains for Rafa Benitez at Real Madrid, seven months into his tenure at the Bernabeu. While his appointment was a surprise several months ago, his dismissal on the other hand has been a joke. A scheduled press conference by Florentino Perez that had the press waiting for half hour, ended…
ARSENAL TAKE POLE POSITION Watching Arsenal defeat Manchester City yesterday night just confirmed two things. Arsenal FC have the best chance ever to win a league title and Manuel Pellegrini may not be the one to take this City team to its greatest heights. So what would stop Arsenal from claiming their first League title…
THE BETTER ONE LEAVES THE BRIGE: NO MORE EXCUSES I was actually going to post my article yesterday with the title ’Mourinho: The Rolling Contract’ when news broke from Cobham about the sack of one of the greatest managers we would ever see in football. Was it the obvious? Was it the inevitable? I would…