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The award for the worst win of the season goes to Arsenal, for their stunningly bad 1-0 victory over 10-men Fulham. We've all heard that 10-men can be hard to play against, but the Gunners took this to all new levels,...read more »

You may well support a team that needs quality players, but you think they don't have the money to acquire it. How wrong you are! Here is my starting eleven (formation of 3-5-2 because there are so many good midfielders available) that...read more »

It is a commonly held football theory that each season at least one team which is nestled in the deceptive comfort of mid-table at the turn of the year will slip into a rut of form.  The downward momentum being...read more »

It’s been two months since the demise of Mark Hughes as Queens Park Rangers boss, and there has been no reliable rumours yet of a return to football. One might have thought that Southampton may have come in for the...read more »

The Cup weekend didn’t fail in its duty of providing a tranche of compelling contests, engaging stories, and as always, a sprinkling of notable upsets.  Of much concern to the F.A. however, will be the paltry attendance figures recorded at many...read more »

There was a lot of furore surrounding Dimitar Berbatov’s goal celebration after he scored for Fulham, in the Boxing Day draw against Southampton, when he unveiled an under-shirt with the words: “Keep calm and pass me the ball.” People claimed it...read more »

As the Premiership players cast an envious eye over at the other major leagues of Europe all winding down for Christmas, and they mull over their own hectic multiple game routine, perhaps they need to be offered some crumb of...read more »

There are countless reasons why Marouane Fellaini’s abjectly stupid act of head-butting Stoke City’s Ryan Shawcross in the second-half of Everton’s draw at the Britannia stadium is deserving of condemnation. If referee Mark Halsey had spotted the Belgian’s indiscretion the Toffees...read more »

Proof of the unrelenting entertainment offered by the Premier League is borne out by its receipt of roughly £5bn after the global tender for television rights to broadcast the action for the next three years.   No other country’s domestic fare...read more »

Despite my status as an unashamed advocate/addict of Premier League football, I had no hesitation on Monday night in choosing to watch Cheltenham Town take on Hereford United in a local F.A. Cup skirmish with the not inconsiderable prize of...read more »