
The evolution of Lewis Dunk: Get yourself a defender who can do it all, Gareth…
Lewis Dunk is back in the England squad, better than ever, and better than almost every other centre-back in Europe, according to his boss. Johnny Nic concurs…
Lewis Dunk is back in the England squad, better than ever, and better than almost every other centre-back in Europe, according to his boss. Johnny Nic concurs…
VAR was sold to us on a false prospectus but it is only getting worse. Some of these decisions simply make no sense and no amount of Howard Webb will ...
Jeremy Doku is fast and he is tricky but that won’t be enough for Manchester City; you would back Pep to eke out more from the Belgian…
In the past, Chelsea spending £1bn in a year would automatically deliver success. But time and money has changed and a wealth of knowledge and data is key.
Who doesn’t love a lavish-locked Italian regista? Johnny Nic does, and he reckons Newcastle have found a gem in Sandro Tonali…
This is what football is like when a certain sort of male is removed. There’s joy and there’s passion and it’s now slap bang in the mainstream.
Alessia Russo, like her England team-mates, had to scrap and sacrifice to reach the biggest stage of all. Johnny Nic pays tribute to the Arsenal new girl…
Astonishing he is just 21 but already Josko Gvardiol has a) a beard and b) all of traits of a modern defender. So very good…
Is the transfer window system working? Should it be standardised or abolished altogether? John Nicholson has some questions.
John Nicholson wants to pay tribute to football’s greatest exponent: the journeyman. But he doesn’t know why they all end up at Stoke City eventually.
England and Chelsea have a superstar in Lauren James and the Women’s World Cup has finally let out a secret that everyone already knew.
Those who keep defending players moving to Saudi Arabia by saying ‘we’d all take the money’ really ought to consider the thoughts of John Nicholson.
Andre Onana could entirely change the way Manchester United play. And more importantly for us, he could be bloody good fun to watch.
Kylian Mbappe is up for sale. Will somebody pay £150m and well over half a million quid a week to him? Is this what football was supposed to be?
From the ridiculous to the sublime: giving top pro and all-round good egg Lynsey Hipgrave the lead presenter’s gig was a no-brainer for TNT Sports. Johnny explains why…
It’s a serious question – helped by research and a brilliant new Women’s World Cup ad from Orange that challenges our innate bias.
Johnny Nic’s early shout for 2023-24’s Player of the Year is Mason Mount. Why is the Man Utd new boy not more universally appreciated?
John Nicholson gets asked all the time if he even likes football. The truth is that he loves it so will never stop ‘moaning’.
Johnny Nic is counting down the days until the season starts so he can see what Jurgen Klopp has planned for Liverpool’s latest lavish purchase Dominik Szoboszlai…
Transfer culture is unique to football. In what other business do its customers focus on what assets a small or medium-sized company is buying and selling?
Justin Kluivert has played in Holland, Italy, Germany, France and Spain. Now he finds himself in England with Bournemouth where Johnny Nic reckons he might finally settle into his groove…
All we’ve done is separate our love of football from everything else, choosing not to look in the shadows for fear of what we might see.
Is a football shirt ever worth £110? Arsenal are about to find out. The ludicrous thing is that Arsenal don’t even get much of the money.
Not only has Christopher Nkunku swapped the serenity of the Bundesliga for the unfathomable madness of the Prem, he’s joined the Chelsea freak show. Johnny Nic reckons he’ll be just ...
There is no commentator that does not grind somebody’s gears and Martin Tyler certainly did that. As will his replacement at Sky Sports.
Gordon McQueen was the dominant British defender of his era, tough enough to lead a brilliant Scotland side and swap Leeds for Man Utd and get away with it.
BT Sport came, they saw, they absolutely did not conquer but got a lot wrong. Hello TNT Sports, who know it’s hard to make money from this gig.
Edin Džeko is massive but he’s more than that – he’s brilliant, always puts in massive effort, and could be a problem for Man City.
Jose Luis Mendilibar ‘felt like an arsehole’ having flown under the radar for two decades, but Jose Mourinho certainly knows who the Sevilla coach is now…
Some absolutely fantastic, exciting, shocking football moments happened at every level in 2022/23 and they happened because football is a fantastic mercurial sport.