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The remarkably capricious nature of the current football season was epitomised in the space of 24 hours this week.  Three days after lifting the F.A. Cup at Wembley thanks to a near faultless performance against Manchester City, many of Wigan...read more »

Manchester United have recently captured a record 20th league title and for the second year in a row, the two Manchester clubs occupy positions one and two in the table. This got me thinking, where is the home of English...read more »

Sir Alex Ferguson is well known for his precision timing – a quality that isn’t limited to the departing Manchester United manager’s assiduous use of his stopwatch to check on a referee’s eye for the clock. The Scot had a keen...read more »

Tottenham have spent the last couple of seasons building a formidable, technically gifted midfield that's capable of guiding them to a top four finish. They've recently added players like Lewis Holtby and Moussa Dembele to the ranks along with others like...read more »

Back in March this year, 33-year-old Stoke City striker Michael Owen announced that he would retire from professional football at the end of the 2012/13 season. And despite his recent lack of first-team action, he must and will be remembered...read more »

When Arsene Wenger signed Frenchman Olivier Giroud last season from Montpellier, Arsenal fans collectively raised their eyebrows. Why was a man who has spent his entire career favouring pacy, graceful, technically-gifted players, signing a lumpy centre-forward like Giroud? It just didn't...read more »

Even allowing for the forensic detail with which every event in the football world is scrutinised by today’s panoptic media, rare are the stories which completely transcend the sport. News of Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement after twenty-six-and-a-half years as manager of...read more »

Despite Manchester United's already impressive achievements this season, I'm sure that the club is already looking ahead to next year and new conquests. Whilst the Red Devils have run away with the Premier League this season, the club's top brass may well...read more »

Liverpool have been let down by their defence on a number of occasions this season. This is somewhat strange, given the Reds tendency for breeding high-quality, towering defensive behemoths. One thing's for sure: it can't continue over the course of next...read more »

We've just seen two breath-taking Champions League semi-finals in which two Bundesliga teams in Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich destroyed Real Madrid and Barcelona, the Spanish giants. The question now is, what is the best league in the world? Since the...read more »