Top 10 Premier League players, managers, clubs and even abstract ideas living on borrowed time
A varied collection of 10 people and things on borrowed time in the rarefied Premier League air. Yes, Angeball is one of them – fight us.
Articles By Dave Tickner
Man City extend Premier League dominance to the one table normally reserved for dafter teams
Our favourite stat of all stats sees Manchester City making an impressive early bid to finish top of all the tables this season.
Everton grimly seeking out new lows with outlandish start to 24/25 point-spaffing contest
One team has dropped five points from winning positions just three games into the season, while four teams still haven’t taken a lead at all.
Premier League sack race: Dyche clear favourite after Everton’s nightmare start
Sean Dyche is a clear favourite after Everton’s pointless start but when do we start talking about Ange Postecoglou?
16 Conclusions as wide-eyed Spurs throw themselves into Arsenal’s well-constructed but entirely obvious NLD trap
Silly Spurs stumbled directly into a very obvious Arsenal trap. Plenty of thoughts here on Arteta, Ange, Vicario, Romero and woke kit nonsense.
Who are the favourites to be the next permanent England manager after Gareth Southgate?
Lee Carsley’s encouraging start as interim coach has made him a firm favourite for the permanent England job.
The ridiculous stats of Erling Haaland: More Premier League goals than Eric Cantona and Bradford
Erling Haaland has not been a Premier League player for two seasons and he has already outscored a legion of legends.
Premier League club top scorers: How high can Salah climb? Will Haaland beat Aguero?
Mo Salah could break into Liverpool’s top-three all-time goalscorers this season as Erling Haaland races towards Sergio Aguero’s City records.
Big Weekend: North London Derby takes centre stage but all eyes on a Man Utd debutant
No prizes for guessing the game of the weekend, but there’s also the prospect of a Man United debutant beginning the trivial task of simply fixing all of their problems.
Five Man City stars among early favourites for 24/25 PFA player of the year award
Five Man City players are joined by three from Arsenal and one each from Liverpool and Chelsea in the early PFA player of the year favourites.
The famous F365 England ladder ventures uncertainly into the 2026 World Cup unknown with Carsley
An absolute head-scratcher of an England ladder this one as we start a new cycle with a new (temporary) manager and an awful lot of guesswork.
Rejuvenated Kane strikes gold as Trent and Gomes shine – rating England’s players against Finland
Harry Kane’s golden double topped the bill as he joins England’s centurions, but Trent Alexander-Arnold once again revelled in some Liverpool-esque freedom.
A step-by-step guide to show Harry Kane has actually scored precisely zero proper goals for England
Harry Kane having 68 England goals would indicate that he’s good. That won’t do, so here’s how none of those goals actually count.
Harry Kane race almost (slowly) run but who can replace him for England?
Harry Kane is about to win his 100th England cap but how many more can he win playing so ponderously? And who replaces him anyway?
So-called ‘world record’ holder Cristiano Ronaldo has actually scored zero proper goals for Portugal
Are you really a world-record holder if you have to lower yourself to counting goals scored against Scotland? Cristiano Ronaldo is an embarrassing fraud.
Rice response confirms not celebrating goals is worse than not singing national anthems
If Declan Rice doesn’t celebrate goals, he can’t expect to play for England. Turns out muted celebrations are our ‘not singing the national anthem’.
Five other struggling Premier League managers grateful Ten Hag is taking all the heat
Manchester United are the season’s first crisis club, Erik ten Hag the first Beleaguered Manager. There are a few others lucky to dodge that spotlight.
REVEALED: Erling Haaland has still actually scored zero proper goals for Manchester City
If there’s a better use of an international break than finding reasons why all 97 of Erling Haaland’s Man City goals don’t count, we can’t think of it.
Premier League winners and losers brings the Ten Hag sack chat, Liverpool praise and Everton despair
Liverpool were great, Manchester United were terrible, and Manchester City are already threatening to be more crushingly unstoppably relentless than ever before.
Haaland hammers back-to-back hat-tricks, breaking records and maybe the league itself
Erling Haaland has scored seven goals already this season, more on his own than every other team in the Premier League. It is all quite mad.
F365’s 3pm Blackout: Everton find new ways to torture their fans while others ponder transfer choices
Everton have done something that is incredibly Everton, even by their own sky-high standards, while there’s several pennies for Ivan Toney’s thoughts.
Chelsea inevitably lead the way with Liverpool and Newcastle also among transfer window losers
Chelsea’s ridiculousness shows no sign of slowing down, while Newcastle and Liverpool are among those not to get done what they wanted to get done.
Sterling late move sees him join Man Utd and West Ham among the transfer window winners
Man United remain a long way from being back, but ignore all the other nonsense it does look on paper like a very decent transfer window. Same for West Ham. ...
Man Utd move for Raheem Sterling but Juventus still favourites to sign Chelsea outcast
Raheem Sterling is on his way out of Chelsea, but where to? Juventus? Man United? Fenerbahce for some reason? Or even somewhere sensible like Villa?
Premier League Winners and Losers accepts winning 6-2 is quite good and has views on Man Utd
Chelsea get some grudging credit where it’s due while the other half of Winners and Losers contains, inevitably, a great deal of Man United and Everton.
Slot’s Liverpool look an awful lot like Klopp’s Liverpool, and that’s a pretty solid strategy
Liverpool were comfy winners of Arne Slot’s first home Premier League game and any fears of a post-Klopp downturn already look misplaced.
‘Factual handball’ joins the ranks of VAR doublespeak as Bournemouth-Newcastle sparks to life late on
Bournemouth thought they’d snatched a late win against Newcastle before we all learned in real time that ‘factual handball’ is now a thing.
No sympathy for Enzo Maresca; he signed up for the Chelsea threshing machine
To sign for this club as a player or manager is now to become a willing human experiment; this is why Chelsea appointed Enzo Maresca.
Does Big Ange have the big Aussie balls to drop the now-droppable Son?
Spurs are ripe for kneejerk reactions after that effort at Leicester and we’ve got another one: it’s time to move on from Son Heung-min.
Ranking all 110(!) players left out of opening Premier League matchday squads by how p*ssed off they can be
Chelsea make up half the top 18 of this ranking of 110 Premier League players based on how annoyed they should be to have not even made the opening bench.