Michael Walker Some will disagree with this geographic categorisation, but for the purpose of this article, ‘the North’ begins at Sheffield. Stoke City are included in the Midlands and Watford counts as being in London, as it’s inside the city’s M25 orbital motorway. Clubs such as Ipswich Town, Portsmouth and Southampton, Reading, Swansea City and […]
Oliver Kay This is football heritage. A four-word sentence that became a meme after Jose Mourinho said it seven times in a single press conference. This was the opposite of “I prefer not to speak”. It was March 2018 and Manchester United had been beaten at Old Trafford by Sevilla in the Champions League’s first […]
Philip Buckingham Manchester United and Chelsea share a problem they cannot hope to run away from. Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge might be able to narrate storied chapters of the Premier League’s history, but neither can project a compelling future. At least not in their current states. The famous homes of Manchester United and Chelsea […]
Gregg Evans Football shirts are not just fashion accessories for diehard supporters — they are seriously big business. With the Premier League’s popularity continuing to grow exponentially, and a global audience eager to buy into the ‘product’, a replica team jersey emblazoned with the name and squad number of a star player is an ideal […]
Former Liverpool Managers – Part 11 – Uncle Joe Joe Fagan 2nd July 1983 – 29th May 1985 Joseph Francis Fagan was born in Walton Hospital, Liverpool, on 12th March 1921, growing up in the Litherland and Scotland Road areas. His parents, Patrick and Mary, as their names suggest, were both of Irish […]