The Shift in Power is Real, and Likely to Stick for a While
There was every reason at halftime to believe this would not be a happy day. Chelsea had laid down an emphatic claim on the title…
Opinion Archives: 04/2017
The Vicissitudes of Spursitude
Lots of talk these days about whether Tottenham Hotspur FC have at long long last shed the humiliating quality of being ‘ursy’. And lots of…
Tottenham v Arsenal – NLD Match preview
You put your Wenger In Seventy-four points eh? Seventy-four! Blimey. And there are still five games to go. Eighty-nine points anyone? Unlikely but you never…
Onward Christian Soldiers
I won’t bury the lede. I could give two hoots what the PFA think, or the writers, or FIFA, or Alan Shearer or Paul Merson—the…
Let’s look at the chairman
Like it or not those neighbours of ours have gone through the upheaval of new stadium etc and still they are annoyingly doing ok. Is…
Palace v Spurs – Match preview
Saturday’s attempt at hara-kiri is behind us but not forgotten quite yet. Pochettino’s tactical aberration in shoe horning palpably insuitable personnel into the wing back…
Why I Haven’t Got Those Wembley Blues Again
My last article finished with me singing ‘Wemberleee, Wemberlee, we’re going to Wemberlee and we’re going to win fuck all’, such had been our form…
Poch loses the plot
The minute the starting lineups were announced this game’s course became clear. Conte said “I think we can stay close, and then I can trump…
Who says the FA haven’t got a sense of humour?
Referee for Saturday’s game at Wembley, step forward Martin Atkinson. Did they check to see if he had any history in this fixture? Check out…
It may look easy but…
Saturday’s despatching of Bournemouth was superficially so routine that many of its merits have been brusquely dismissed, or at least lost in the aftershock of…