Every year football seems to become more and more about money, and less about the passion for the beautiful game. This is dictated by the agendas of various owners across the Premier League, who control the operations of a club. Some owners have managed to maintain the club’s connection with the local community, most notably…
A short-term fad or the future of modern football? That is the big question many people are asking when it comes to so-called fan tokens. These fan tokens are a new type of cryptocurrency that have attracted a large amount of interest among fan-bases across the world. You might not yet have heard about them…
When arriving in 1992, the Premier League immediately changed the face of English football forever. It marked the beginning of a new era and one that has brought so much revenue to the clubs in the top flight of English football. Today’s Premier League looks very different to the league that first appeared in the…
Before the familiar days of the world’s best football players earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a week, the typical football wage in the UK in the “olden days” of the game was comparable to a normal job. Nowadays, not even rocket scientists or brain surgeons earn as much as the average professional footballer. In…
In an age in which billionaire businesspeople buy football clubs as toys to demonstrate their wealth and others buy teams as an attempt to make a quick buck, there are still some clubs that are run for and by their own community. Fan-owned clubs are run by the supporters for the supporters, in a system…
We are writing this piece in the immediate aftermath of England’s devastating yet highly predictable loss on penalties to Italy in the final of Euro 2020 (that took place on 11th July 2021). Penalties are a bit of a sore subject at the moment but we must be masochists because England’s demise got us thinking…
The Premier League has quickly grown into the most prestigious domestic football league in the world since its establishment in 1992. Several of England’s big guns have lifted the trophy throughout the years, with Manchester United still being the most successful side despite finding things much harder in the post Sir Alex Ferguson era. United’s…
With the Group phase of Euro 2020 now finished, we thought it was a good time to consider just how often games at the UEFA European Championships end in goalless draws. For the purposes of this piece, we are looking at bona fide bore draws, games completely devoid of goals. As such we are looking…
Barring the odd exception (usually goalkeepers), professional footballers are extremely fit athletes. Football is a very physical and intensive game after all with all outfield players required to cover a lot of ground in the space of 90 or occasionally 120 minutes. Just to be sure though, when moving clubs, it is standard practice for…
Although the first UEFA European Championship took place in 1960 (when it was known as the European Nations’ Cup), it was a straight knockout competition and didn’t involve a group stage. In the early editions of this brilliant event just four teams qualified for the finals, making a group phase rather redundant! It was not…
