Big Weekend: Tottenham v Liverpool, Pep Guardiola, Southampton, Havertz, Barcelona
The Premier League leaders are secondary as the world waits to see which Tottenham shows up against Liverpool. Pep Guardiola can focus on his own stuff.
Articles By Dave Tickner
Man United and Spurs send in the clowns for some riotously stupid Carabao slapstick
Thursday night. Carabao. Spurs. Man United. Sure, this had all the ingredients you could ever want for nonsense. But even we didn’t expect *that*.
Who will be next Southampton manager after Russell Martin sack?
Former Denmark boss Kasper Hjulmand, Danny Rohl and a failed Roma boss are among Southampton’s managerial contenders.
Amorim has one key quality that breeds hope of success at Man Utd where so many have failed
We are a little bit in love with Ruben Amorim already, and while the football will obviously decide his fate, his charisma and openness will buy him time.
Man City and Man Utd might both have substantial summer transfer regrets
Man City really could do with Julian Alvarez right now. Or at the very least they could do with having spent some of that lovely, lovely money they got for ...
7) Slot, 3) Arteta, 2) Howe – ranking eight managers by how desperately they need Carabao glory
Eight managers still have a chance to add ‘only a Carabao’ to their managerial CVs. So which manager needs that bauble the most?
Wolves set to appoint a Portuguese manager in huge shock twist nobody saw coming
It looks very much like the next manager of Wolves is going to Portuguese. It’s a shock twist nobody could have seen coming.
Russell Martin sacked after doomed Southampton ship five goals in first-half horror show
Southampton have sacked manager Russell Martin in the wake of a 5-0 thrashing from Tottenham on Sunday evening.
16 Conclusions from Man City 1-2 Man Utd – Amad changes the story, but what if Pep really is done?
Manchester City looked set for a rare win. It was unconvincing, but it was something. Then Amad Diallo came along and turned it to nothing.
Chelsea in title race whether Maresca likes it or not after moving within two points of Liverpool
Enzo Maresca might not want to hear it, but it’s increasingly clear that Chelsea are very much in the Premier League title race. At least until they aren’t, anyway.
Liverpool remain front-runners as Anfield drama leaves Fulham as most unreliable when leading
Fulham have dropped an eye-popping 17 Premier League points from winning positions already, while Liverpool and Chelsea are the best when leading.
Man City still leading the way in one Premier League table but mentality monsters Liverpool are coming
Our favourite stat of all stats is the only one capable of matching Manchester City’s freak this season. Points won from behind are the best points.
Big Weekend: Man City v Man United, Nottingham Forest, Russell Martin, Eberechi Eze
A Manchester derby between a pair of deeply vulnerable giants headlines another bumper weekend full of potential Premier League nonsense.
Man United and Amorim indebted to supersub Hojlund after stuttering start in Plzen
This 2-1 victory at Viktoria Plzen was for a long time a game going familiarly askew for this early and incoherent iteration of Ruben Amorim’s Man Utd.
Man Utd and Man City miserably side by side in Premier League mood rankings
They say misery loves company, and right now in this festive season of good cheer the Premier League is absolutely riddled with misery.
The deluded arrogance of Southampton means only way is down
Southampton are a football club in need of an intervention; they need to be saved from themselves.
Spurs are exciting?! Make that ‘exhausting’ if you are a fan under Postecoglou
Ultimately, Spurs are only really fun for everyone else. If you support them it’s exhausting rather than exciting because it’s all going nowhere.
Man United secure not one but two spots in the rundown of top 10 2024 sh*tshows
Who has made just the biggest mess of 2024 as a whole? There are obvious embarrassments at Spurs and Manchester United, but let England not be forgotten.
Man United fail to weather storm as Amorim prediction proved right by high-flying Forest
Ruben Amorim predicted ‘the storm will come’ for Man United. After Forest made it back-to-back defeats, you’d have to say he was right.
City pass up Liverpool chance, Brentford go full Brentford again, Villa lucky – it’s the F365 3pm Blackout
Only three Premier League games kicking off at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon is utter woke nonsense, of course, but all three had their stories to tell.
Big Weekend: Everton v Liverpool, Tottenham, Amorim, Leno, Baggies v Blades, Serie A title fight
It’s damn near non-stop Barclays right now, with the midweek round barely finished before we’re straight into the weekend with the Merseyside derby.
Postecoglou reaches familiar Spurs manager endgame as Angeball drifts towards despair
It’s not just that Spurs have been terrible since the Man City game – although they have been that – it’s that they have been so *predictably* terrible.
De Bruyne and Doku end Manchester City losing streak as tentative positives are located
And there it is. The tentative restoring of normal service. Turns out Man City really are better with Kevin De Bruyne heavily involved. Who knew?
Sam Morsy, the rainbow armband, indefensible Ipswich and how tolerating intolerance is never the way
If Sam Morsy and his ‘religious beliefs’ balk at a small show of support for the LGBT community but not advertising gambling, Ipswich should have found another captain.
Where will Man City 2024/25 end up in the top 10 worst Premier League title defences?
Manchester City are having a terrible time of it, so we’ve decided to be mean about them but also assorted other title winners who came unstuck.
16 Conclusions from Liverpool 2-0 Man City: is there even going to be a title race at all?
Liverpool swatted Man City aside four days after swatting Real Madrid aside to open a nine-point lead at the top of the Premier League. Handy week, that.
Big Weekend: Liverpool v Man City, Aston Villa, Odegaard, Dawson, Yorkshire, Der Klassiker
Can we officially rule Manchester City out of the title race if they come a(nother) cropper at Anfield on Sunday? Feels naughty even to think it.
Hojlund can solve one big problem for Man United – and make fixing others easier too
Man United obviously remain a very early work in progress under Ruben Amorim, but there were a couple of encouraging signs in a 3-2 win over Bodo/Glimt.
Another relentlessly grim Everton season might be about to get even worse
Everton are plodding aimlessly and listlessly into a December fixture list that is genuinely terrifying. We fear for them, we really do.
Five reasons Man City are absolutely rotten this season (and it’s not just Rodri)
Don’t know if you’ve heard, but Manchester City are having a bit of a time of it. Why has it all gone so spectacularly to sh*t?