Neil Warnock has never been what you would describe as laid back. The experienced manager goes very much for the stick over the carrot with his management style and won’t accept anything but the best from either his players or the officials. The Cardiff manager may have reached 70 during this season but he is…
Some people get very worked up over Sports Personality of the Year. The long running BBC contest has celebrated many of the world’s best sportspeople since its foundation in 1954 in which time it’s become a British cultural institution that prompts serious levels of debate. The Sports Personality of the Year award has always been…
Watford went into their FA Cup semi final against Wolves as the slight underdogs with the bookmakers. Like their opponents, the Hornets have had an excellent season in which they have exceeded all expectations in the Premier League so they headed to Wembley with a great deal of confidence. With little over 20 minutes left…
Image by photo.ua, Bigstock Photo. When the FA took the decision to build their new national football stadium on the site of the old Wembley Stadium they knew it was going to require a massive outlay. Among the steps taken by the FA to ensure Wembley would eventually pay for itself was the decision to…
Neil Warnock’s rather strange stare down with the officials after Cardiff’s 2-1 loss to Chelsea at the weekend understandably got a lot of media attention. Some said that he showed admirable restraint in not berating the officials but it could just have been that he had no more anger inside him given the way he…
Euro 2020 is drawing ever closer and at the time of writing the first of the qualifiers have been played. Of course, England are not guaranteed to even make it through to the finals, so this question might be a little premature, but can England end 54 years of hurt and win Euro 2020? Whisper…
When England’s so called ‘Golden Generation’ routinely disappointed at major international tournaments, the FA came in for widespread condemnation for the way the senior team was managed. To be fair to the FA, they realised that things had to change and so undertook a root and branch review of the men’s national team. As part…
The UEFA Nations League was not exactly universally welcomed by football fans when it was announced. The rather complicated system made it tough for fans to get immediately excited about the new tournament but those early concerns were dispelled when the action got underway. The football will continue to speak for itself during the finals…
The Premier League is clearly in rude health. All four English teams who qualified for the Champions League have made it to the quarter finals and the battle just to make it into European football’s elite competition is as fierce as ever between the so called ‘big six’; as such Chelsea and Arsenal are both…
It feels as though we are living through a golden age of European football. Certainly the knockout stages of the Champions League and Europa League have provided some incredible drama in recent years and football fans have already been treated to more of the same this season. Big second leg wins for Ajax, Manchester United…
