YOU’RE FIRED! There was a time when managers had a job and not a rolling contract, a time when a team appointed a manager who took a year or two to build his team and pursue a long term vision of the club. The news of Frank DeBoer’s sack at Inter Milan came as a…
TOTTENHAM-LY DOMINANT Towards the end of last season, I noticed how powerful and forceful a team Tottenham had become, but for the inexperience and the blow out at Stamford Bridge which drained the team and cost them a crack at the title, Tottenham Hotspurs under Mauricio Pochettino for me, had come of age. If anyone…
September 13, 2016 CITY SHOW UNITED WHO IS KING OF MANCHESTER If United fans felt that the problems created by the exit of Sir Alex Ferguson was an easy fix, reality was served on a cold plate for them on Saturday. Even with serial winner Jose Mourinho, the gulf in class between Manchester City and…
September 28, 2016 SO SAD AS BIG SAM EXITS THE SCENE To see Sam Allardyce exit in such a way is very painful, both for football and England in general. Okay my bias is because I am a football student and I’m talking purely football matters and nothing else. Finally England got an indigenous manager…
September 21 PEP CLAIMS HIS THIRD SCALP IN THE BIG BOYS’ CLOSET Whichever way you look at it, this was always going to happen: Yaya Toure’s inevitable fallout with Pep Guardiola. When Pep took over at Barcelona several years ago, he cleared the deck at the club, getting rid of superstars Ronaldinho, Yaya Toure, Deco,…
CAN ANTONIO CONTE SNEAK BEHIND PEP AND JOSE? As all the cameras continue to converge in Manchester, Antonio Conte continues to work without the lights and pressure at the bridge. Chelsea could be the surprise ace in the pack, as media attention continues to shift towards Old Trafford and the Etihad. What Conte has quickly done…
COMICAL LIVERPOOL That the Manchester teams won again on day 2 of the EPL is no surprise. That Arsenal drew with Leicester does not surprise me either, neither does Chelsea’s win against Watford, even though it was a tough nut to crack for Conte. What surprises me is how Jurgen Klopp thinks he does not…
GAME ON! Nineteen games in the 1st week of the Premiership and if I told you I know who would be winning the Premiership, I’d either be guessing or being untrue. So who would be the greatest among the greats, come end of season? KLOPP Jurgen Klopp’s win at the Emirates – a direct title…
MOURINHO’S UNITED DRAW FIRST BLOOD AS RANIERI’S SOLDIERS SHOW US LAST SEASON WAS NO FLUKE So the 2016/17 English Premier League Season has finally kicked off! Manchester United and Jose Mourinho have drawn the first blood in a Wembley encounter that just emphasised most of what we already know. The Super Cup or…
THE SPECIAL ONE ENTERS THE THEATRE OF DREAMS After much speculations and deliberations, Jose Mourinho returns to English football for the third time, only this time in a red shirt instead of the familiar blue one we are used to. He brings competition, winning mentality, comedy, box office interviews and if you go by what…