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Britain’s most succesful football cities

Football has always thrown up rivalries, mostly between two or more side’s that inhabit a city. Liverpool and Everton, Manchester United and City, Glasgow Rangers and Celtic all are at loggerheads with each other and are constantly looking for bragging rights in their individual battles. However there are also rivalries between cities, with the north…

Modric v Nasri v Sneijder – who should Man Utd, Man City and Chelsea buy?

The hunt is on for creative midfielders this summer as managers across England look for the perfect solution to unlocking packed defences. With Paul Scholes retiring, Frank Lampard ageing and Carlos Tevez agitating for a move, Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City are all looking for a player to shoulder attacking responsibility on the pitch…

An Open Letter to Carlos Tevez

Dear Carlos Tevez, For five years now you’ve been a shedload of trouble for the entire English Premier League. With this letter, I’d like to invite you to please stop moaning about the loneliness of Northern England and return to Argentina as you have for so long suggested you’d prefer. The biannual farce which into…

Manchester City And The Dubious Pleasures Of Gael Clichy

So to be a top team you need attacking fullbacks. This is not just general opinion but to a degree in the modern game it is quite literally a must have. In a time of wingers who cut inside and trequartistas who have far greater mobility,fullbacks provide the width for these players to operate. Of…

Roberto Mancini looking to his homeland for transfer targets.

Manchester City coach Roberto Mancini has identified a host of Serie A targets that he will be interested in buying this summer. The Italian is concocting a transfer wishlist to City owner Sheikh Mansour, which contains players from the length and breadth of Italy’s top flight. City finished third in the Premier League last season…

Who needs Alexis Sanchez more – Manchester United or Manchester City?

One of the hottest names in this transfer window is Chilean International star, Alexis Sanchez. After leading Udinese to a historical qualification to the Champions League, scoring 12 goals (his best ever goalscoring tally in a single season) and providing six assists, “El Niño Maravilla” looks mature enough to step up to one of Europe’s…

Manchester United enter the race to sign Alexis Sanchez

It seemed a foregone conclusion this time last week that Alexis Sanchez would be ending his fairytale stay at Udinese to seek pastures new in Catalonia with European Champions Barcelona. However, reports emanating today from various British outlets claim that Manchester United have entered the fray to sign the multi-talented Chilean international Although there were…

Scoring Stats – European Goal Trends

When we first examined the most important marksmen in the Big Four leagues, we looked at which players in Europe were the most crucial to their teams. This was done according to Scoring Stats, a measure of a player’s combined Goals and Assists, measured as a percentage of their team’s total league goals for the…

LEAKED: Manchester City 2011/2012 home shirt will be darker than before?

Image of a shirt which is the Manchester City home shirt is believed to be from the 2011/2012 kits. The Umbro manufactured shirt seems slightly to be on the darker side of the blue. The logo linings have also been changed to black. The front of the shirt is dotted in order to make the…

England shouldn’t expect any success in the near future

Like myself, all English football fans have been let down in recent years by our regularly under achieving international side. I would like to share my views on why this is the case, and on why I don’t see any reason to expect success in the near future. The fact that us English created the…