Are VARs Good or Bad for English Football Over the coming six months, the Video Assistant Referee will become a regular feature of our television screens and back pages. The FA Cup, Carabao Cup and finally the Premier League will all begin utilising the technology during that time, as will the World Cup finals in … Read more
As evidenced during Sunday’s Manchester derby, when fans decided to go onto the pitch it is generally a very bad idea.
With Roy Hodgson bemoaning the lack of English players available to him as he attempts to, where so many others have failed before him, turn England into a major force on the international stage, assistance is coming in the most unlikeliest of forms, Arsenal and their connoisseur of foreign talent, coach Arsene Wenger.
A goal down with the clock ticking at the Hawthornes earlier in the season, Roberto Mancini turned to his substitute striker Edin Dzeko and handed to him the responsibility of dragging his side out of the mire
Few football clubs divide opinion as much as Crawley Town, the Sussex team bankrolled into the Football League where their ascent rolls on with hasten speed; following a storming 105-point promotion from the Blue Square Premier League and a third place promotion in their debut year in League Two, the Red Devils, replicating the successful trend of the Premier League behemoth that carry the same nickname, have continued in a similar vein in League One, sitting promisingly in second after fifteen games.
Such is the interest in the fortunes of Andy Carroll since Liverpool and Kenny Dalglish made the misguided decision to splash £35 million on the striker 20 months ago, Sam Allardyce, now his manager at West Ham, is now tasked with having to field questions on his aversion to scoring which, in comparison to his hefty price-tag, attracted a lot of derision to Merseyside during his spell at Anfield.
After a universal mini-break in domestic competition for want of World Cup qualifying, this coming weekend sees a return to the spotlight for the Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A et al as the majority of Europe goes back to the day job. The English Premier League also gets back to business and Aston Villa, one of its ever-present clubs since its 1992 inception, will travel to Fulham.
As with every passing week over in Spain, the Jose Mourinho soap opera seems to dominate the landscape as his battle for squad politics with defender Sergio Ramos rolling over into the build-up to the always contentious Clasico at the Nou Camp this Sunday evening.