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Winds of Change in the Championship:
Autumnal winds of change have blown through the npower Championship, as six of the division’s sides underwent a change of management. Prompted by Owen Coyle’s sacking at Bolton at the start of October, the floodgates opened, and the managerial merry-go-round...read more »
From the depths of relegation, to a Champions League winner: The Gary Cahill Story
Having stared into the abyss, amidst an unenviable relegation battle, to then becoming a UEFA Champions League winner. I’m not sure even Gary Cahill can begin to fathom the year he’s had. At the beginning of the 2011/2012 Premier League season,...read more »
Scottish Managers Sent Home To Think Again
It is possible that we are seeing the passing of a particular epoch in the history of the English Premier League. On the final day of the season, 7 of the league’s 20 teams were managed by Scots-two more than...read more »
What’s Gone Wrong At Bolton – And Can They Fix It?
Bolton look like they could be heading for the Championship unless they start delivering results very quickly, and two deserved defeats over the Easter period will do nothing to fill their supporters with confidence. They do, still, remain with their...read more »
How Fabrice Muamba’s fight for life shone a light on football’s empathetic underbelly:
We all love the beautiful game, don’t we? There’s nothing we love more than watching our team trounce our rivals. There’s nothing we enjoy more than travelling 80 miles on a Tuesday night to watch a 0-0 draw at a...read more »
Who will make it to the F.A. Cup Semi-Final?
The world’s oldest football competition continues over the weekend, in its 140th edition, to decide which four clubs will make it to the semi-finals. Six of the eight teams have won the competition before: Tottenham (8), Liverpool (7), Chelsea (6), Everton...read more »
Are Wigan and QPR now Premier League relegation favourites?
Everyone seems to have their eyes glued to the title race at the minute and who could blame them really? Both Manchester clubs have locked horns and look set to take the battle for supremacy down to the wire with...read more »
After the success of Ryo and Wilshere, who should Arsenal send to Bolton next?
Though Bolton and Arsenal didn’t have the best of relationships during the Sam Allardyce era things have only gotten better in his absence. Particularly since Owen Coyle took over and adopted a more positive style of football with an attacking...read more »
What Saints can learn from the team that “used to play football”
As I sat and stood in interchanging fashion, rather like a Russian Kozachok dancer, in row E, seat 24, of the Sir Trevor Brooking Stand and looked up to my left to see the rather large and, unlike our own,...read more »
Why a Bolton move for Arsenal’s young wing-ace could be a good move for all involved:
Bolton have made a name for themselves in recent times as one of the best proponents of the loan system. Not only do they usually go after the finest young talent English football has to offer, they give them a...read more »