On Sunday, West Ham United fired manager Sam Allardyce after finishing 12th in the Premier League. Today the Hammers found out that “Big Sam” had guided West Ham into Europe and a chance to play in the Champions League in 2016. The Hammers qualified for next season’s Europa League by topping the Premier League’s Fair […]
Norwich City won the £120 million jackpot on Monday as they beat belongs Middlesbrough 2-0 at Wembley in the Championship play-off final. Alex Neil’s side raced into a two-goal lead inside the first 15 minutes thanks to goals from Cameron Jerome and Nathan Redmond and that early blitz was enough to secure a lucrative return […]
Radamel Falcao thanked Manchester United’s supporters today, a day after the club announced that his disappointing loan spell from Monaco will not be extended. Falcao joined United amid great fanfare and expectations last September, but he was a shadow of the player that scored goals for fun for River Plate, Porto, Atletico Madrid and Monaco. […]
Sometimes you have to wonder why successful businessmen can continue to make the same mistake over and over when they run a football team. Despite winning the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup, Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez has fired Carlo Ancelotti less than 12 months ago he delivered the long awaited ‘LA […]
Interesting little piece in the Spanish newspaper Marca on Thursday that Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has met with club president Florentino Pérez to find out what the club’s intentions are for next season. Mentioned in the newspaper that since Ronaldo arrived at the Bernebeu in 2008 he has scored 223 goals, an average of […]
Despite qualifying for the Champions League this was a very up and down season for Manchester United. It started with the question over whether Louis van Gaal had actually improved the side from David Moyes’ time, and what those changes were, before all the fuss over long balls and then finally the obsession with possession […]
For all Jose Mourinho’s argument that Chelsea’s absences from January to May were going to affect Cesc Fabregas’ output, it’s still hard to escape the fact his season conformed to the general trend of a career: there was a distinctive drop-off. It’s not even about the assists, which fell from 13 in 18 games to […]
The only problem with all the optimism at the Emirates right now is that, really, we’ve been here before. All the talk about being the best team in a given year is reminiscent of what happened in 2013. There is that perpetual sense of the club self-correcting itself: never suffering the true kind of crisis […]