I don’t ‘hate’ Mikel Arteta and I don’t read your below-the-line comments
Football is a sport; how has it become normal behaviour to constantly criticise, abuse and seek out justice for people you have never met?
Johnny Nic
Real Madrid are lower than a snake’s belly; throw the book at them
Real Madrid are a pathetic club that promotes and perpetuates one of the most destructive cultures in modern football.
Are you switching off? Is it the football, the money or the tired old way it is broadcast?
The football is poor and predictable but the coverage? Are we not all bored of the same old faces saying the same things?
Keane’s genuine disgust at Man Utd was fun but smug Henry and sniggering Carragher were embarrassing
Monday Night Football used to mean something but not with a smug Thierry Henry and sniggering Jamie Carragher. At least Roy Keane still hates Man Utd.
Sky and TNT should sack off former footballers in another Rio Ferdinand lament
Rio Ferdinand catches another hiding from Johnny Nic, who is left uninspired by the selection of football programmes and documentaries on Sky Sports and TNT.
Manchester United are stuck in limbo: they need to fail properly and get relegated
Manchester United might need to fail properly and get relegated to fix their problems, break this tedium and give fans some actual glory to reflect.
Sky Sports and TNT insulting our intelligence with ‘say what you see’ punditry of Ferdinand, Redknapp
It is a mystery why Sky Sports and TNT stick with the same pundits who offer no expert insight whatsoever, especially when subscriptions are so expensive.
Blatant sportswashing works because of the slack-jawed stupids
Presumably, the public are regarded as slack-jawed stupids who don’t realise they’re being played. Because this whole culture relies on that being the case.
Johnny Nic’s TV awards: Best presenters, pundits, commentators, programmes and more
There is love for Joe Hart, Clive Tyldesley, Don Hutchison and a great many more but Monday Night Football is ‘coasting’ and being shown up elsewhere.
Tuchel looked ‘shaken’ by England mediocrity; he is destined to ‘fail’ and be worse than Southgate
The brave new Thomas Tuchel era looks and sounds like every other failed England manager reign despite the FA ‘cheating’ with an ‘elite’ appointment.
Sky Soccer Saturday enjoying post-Jeff and the boys ‘second wind’
Sky Soccer Saturday is enjoying a ‘second wind’ post-Jeff and the boys with Simon Thomas presenting. Here is Johnny Nic’s football week on TV.
Thomas Tuchel is on an England hiding to nothing; it really is the ‘impossible job’
England always have a puncher’s chance but Thomas Tuchel will be the latest to be a victim of the players and the press in an unholy alliance.
Dirty Leeds helped expose a bizarre Sky Sports commentator problem
Their desire to televise every single game live affords Sky Sports an opportunity to experiment but the safety-first approach is absolutely infuriating.
Jack Grealish the latest victim of sports news pigs’ grunting lies and nonsense
Jack Grealish went to the pub on his day off. And it sparked a hundred headlines. What absolute nonsense; why does anybody read it?
Ignoring Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United to actually enjoy a week of football TV
While getting a couple more digs in at the Premier League, Johnny Nic ignored the Barclays to enjoy Real Madrid, Serie B and the Scottish third tier.
Moronic to defend VAR in the face of ’embarrassing’ Bournemouth farce
VAR is taking a massive kicking after over eight minutes were needed at Bournemouth to reach a decision. Semi-automated? Really?
Liverpool icon shows ‘how good punditry can be’ before Drury shouts about MO SALAH
It was a ‘miserable’ old time listening to Peter Drury and Gary Neville on Sky Sports but Liverpool icon Rafa Banitez showed ‘how good punditry can be’.
Manchester United players should go on strike to force out ‘heartless’ idiot Ratcliffe
Sir Jim Ratcliffe ‘has to be divorced’ from Manchester United or everyone should simply go on strike until he leaves. It is a sweary old Johnny Nic rant.
The Big Number Nine has bruised and battered past possession football and that should be celebrated
There is nothing inherently wrong with passing out from defence, provided you have capable players. But tactics evolve and 4-4-2 with a big striker is back.
Kick Liverpool and friends out of the FA Cup before finally revamping punditry, shouts Johnny Nic at brick wall
There is love for Joe Hart and Mark Chapman but a theme of the FA Cup weekend – five days! – was Liverpool and Premier League teams exposing themselves.
FA Cup revival incoming after ‘financial apartheid’ took hold of football
The FA Cup feels more important to most than at any time since the 80s. Just not that important to Liverpool, obviously.
Women’s football on TV: refreshing at times but BBC must realise ‘crass, insensitive’ Slot decision
The dinosaur Johnny Nic enjoying watching some women’s football coverage, save for the usual abuse of pundits and a weird BBC call involving Arne Slot.
Abolish transfer fees and player contracts; Jhon Duran shows both are ludicrous
If there were no lengthy contracts, rubbish players wouldn’t just suckle from the club’s milky paps, says John Nicholson.
Premier League clubs bring ‘tactical nuclear weapon to a knife fight’ in Europe
It’s supposed to be a TV column but John Nicholson cannot help but get angry about the financial disparity ignored by broadcasters.
Premier League broadcasters think we will watch any old sh*te…
They’re probably right in thinking if it’s Premier League then we will watch, but some of the coverage is painfully awkward and dull…
Man Utd fan Rio Ferdinand continues to infuriate but a new star emerges – the football week on TV
Rio Ferdinand shilling for Qatar Airways was probably not his most offensive TV offering this week; he was in his usual form watching Manchester United.
The Premier League and UEFA will be sickened by Forest and Bournemouth success
For the Premier League, a competitive season with high-flying underdogs is very much a double-edged sword. They’re caught in a cleft stick.
Curling toes at ’embarrassing’ Rio Ferdinand and rolling eyes at ‘unwatchable’ Man Utd – the football week on TV
Arsenal v Man Utd was ‘unwatchable’ but even worse was TNT Sports pundit Rio Ferdinand trying his hand at some ‘toe-curlingly embarrassing’ interviewing.
How long will Arsenal stick with long-proven failing nearly man Mikel Arteta?
Whoever’s job it is to hire and fire at Arsenal needs to hand Mikel Arteta his sandwiches wrapped in a road map.
Manchester United induce sleep again despite Sky’s ’embarrassing exaggeration’ – the football week on TV
Sky Sports did their best to give Liverpool versus Manchester United the Big Game Treatment but it was an ’embarrassing’ contrast to the Scottish coverage.
I resent Manchester United for being ‘weak’ and ‘softer’ than at Ferguson’s peak
Manchester United are so frustratingly poor in 2025 that Johnny Nic feels compelled to indulge in some ‘In my day…’ nostalgia about Sir Alex Ferguson.
Man Utd being terrible is a gift for Carragher and co. – the football week on TV
Manchester United v Newcastle United was just one of many games watched by Johnny. He preferred Penybont v Cardiff Met University.
The Premier League is emperor’s new clothes; it’s a ‘flabby, naked charlatan’
The idea that the Premier League sells itself on its own supposed elite status is unsustainable when you actually view the product.