Long-term view: How does ‘failure’ feel, Buffon?
Of course Gianluigi Buffon is not a failure. But there must be dark nights when it feels like that…
Of course Gianluigi Buffon is not a failure. But there must be dark nights when it feels like that…
Sanchez has wasted his prime at a club that has absolutely failed to match his ambitions. Let him go.
It’s probably the only Manager of the Year gong heading to Slaven Bilic. Plus, Dembele, Mane, Rashford…
Would he be happier, now, if he’d turned Fergie down? Is it better to find out that you can’t?
The concept of Spurs being ‘Spursy’ is nonsense. It disappears with a truly great manager.
When you start supporting a team just after they win the PL, you don’t expect this…
Was there ever a more wonderful night? How much did it mean to the boy from Madrid?
That Rio Ferdinand documentary should remind us that footballers are a) real and b) badly equipped for life.
It’s lazy to say that they cannot be compared. They really can. It’s the machine v the magician.
Because if Arsene Wenger ever does leave, there’s no way this lot are staying at Arsenal…
Not Martin Keown kind of insight but Toby Sprigings wants to know what’s in their heads?
“Never fall in love with them because they’ll two-time you.” And yet Fergie was both loved and successful.
And they could never begin to understand what magic can do to a simple brain…
There was a time when seeing a full-back in the bakery was the stamp; horizons have shifted.
The moment that defines him came in a game that meant nothing. What does that say?
Well, they’re not broken. It’s just that their wings have been clipped with platinum shears…
As long as there is life, there will be football. But will there be sports broadcasters?
Or, if we were being clicky, ‘Five reasons oligarchs won’t get bored’. Until there’s nothing but oligarchs, maybe.
Toby Sprigings wants us to boycott. Like, really boycott. We need to send a message to Russia and FIFA.
He seems to be conducting a kind of experiment for modern football. How does it feel? Does it matter?
Does he still really want it? No Nike slogans can touch a man like Arsene Wenger…
Al can only think of three world-class players; he can only measure in goals and positive affirmation…
It’s difficult to do the washing-up when you are suffering a terrible hangover from the night before…