Pirlo, Keane, Clayton… but no Cork – football’s finest face fungus
Johnny Nic knows a good beard when he sees one. Here are 10 of his favourite players to sprout a face forest, featuring two current Liverpool stars…
Johnny Nic knows a good beard when he sees one. Here are 10 of his favourite players to sprout a face forest, featuring two current Liverpool stars…
Man Utd predictably lost to Man City and that’s exactly what the broadcasters want. They don’t want you to be shocked.
Johnny Nic is due out of hospital this week and he wants to thank a fair few people, not least his wonderful nurses. His socialist crusade is just starting.
John Nicholson is on the last lap of his three-month hospital stay after suffering a massive stroke so he has time to think about the dirty sods of football.
There has never been such a disparity between how a manager is seen and talked about in the print and broadcast media and how they’re seen by the fans.
We don’t think John Nicholson likes the idea of blue cards. We have just about worn out the asterisk button.
The football business is like no other business, and that’s why no fool would buy into this business. There’s little reward or thanks.
The Premier League has been the Premier League longer than it was ever the Premiership and yet old men (and Tories) still shout at Premiership clouds.
The deification of a departing Jurgen Klopp makes absolutely no sense. Liverpool will move on and he will soon be forgotten, just as he’d want.
Gary Neville has to share top spot and John Nicholson was loathe to lose one of his favourite football pundits so there’s actually 11.
Joey Barton and his ilk are bigoted and stupid but also bullies. How lovely. But the truth is that they’re losers, out of touch and left behind.
We all know how much Johnny loves Clive Tyldesley, but not as much as he loves listening to 5 Live…
Premier League players are athletes made from biscuits wearing lightweight fancy slippers; you can’t run them into the ground.
It’s easy to imagine Franz Beckenbauer playing in 2024, and that could not be said about most footballers from the 1970s. He was wonderful.
Our John Nicholson is not having any of the praise for West Ham manager David Moyes; they have spent a lot to hit their ceiling.
John Nicholson has been writing from his hospital bed after yet more VAR nonsense in the Boxing Day fixtures.
‘Am f**ked but won’t be forever’ was the message from John Nicholson from a hospital bed in Scotland. But that didn’t stop him filing…
It is obvious to see why Arsenal are sniffing around Douglas Luiz. But Johnny Nic reckons the Brazil midfielder would be wise to stay where he is under Unai Emery’s ...
Mikel Arteta lost his mind on Saturday but John Nicholson does not blame him; Arsenal were the latest victims of some curious VAR work.
Jack Clarke is the Championship top scorer firing another Sunderland promotion push when it seemed another young talent had landed on the elite scrapheap.
Manchester United were embarrassed again by their superior rivals but does it really matter? The last decade has seen them exclusively rewarded for failure.
Serhou Guirassy is the complete striker you won’t hear much about until he moves to the Premier League, breaking Lewandowski records and outscoring Kane.
With the value of the Premier League TV rights deal falling from a peak it will never reach again, broadcasters have a chance to reinvent a broken wheel.
Ollie Watkins has grafted his way up from the Conference South to the European Championships. Johnny Nic eulogises over a striker whose fight for the spotlight continues…
Gareth Southgate likes an open letter so John Nicholson has written one to him. And he’s really not happy with his mealy-mouthed nonsense.
Levi Colwill made the first of what Johnny Nic reckons will be many England starts on Friday night. Here’s ‘What’s So Great About…’ the Chelsea defender…
This stop-start Autumn thing for international football is rubbish; why not play the season through and then do internationals in April and May?
The truth is much duller than the theories: People make mistakes. Referees, footballers, managers, the whole shebang…
Dan Burn is living his dream, playing and scoring for Newcastle United in the Champions League. The modern game, cold and brutal that it is, needs more fairytales like Big ...
VAR is a terrible idea being executed terribly; for all the solutions being offered in the wake of a huge mistake, none are better than just ditching it.