(Un)obstructed View

One of the best things about football is that it leads to discussion, and divides opinion. Just like the finest art, football is at it’s best when not simply serving to entertain, but to provoke and make the observer think. A few different discussions on...

Who’d be a referee?

The past few weeks have seen one ‘hot-button’ issue dominate football debates up and down the land: the standard of refereeing. One by one, decision after decision, refereeing controversies are racking up faster than you can spell Mark Clattenberg. I wrote the...

Home and Away

“We’re winning away, we’re winning away, how s*** must you be, we’re winning away”. Ah yes, this old chestnut. Home advantage, away day blues or simply a disliking of the unfamiliar, whatever you call it, it’s written in sporting lore. Whichever way you look at it,...

Summer Transfer Targets Part II – Midfield

At present it’s fair to say our midfield is fairly well stocked. We have an abundance of wingers (Dempsey, Duff, Ruiz, Dembele, Davies, Riise), central midfielders (Murphy, Sidwell, Etuhu, Diarra) and young talent bursting at the seams to be given a chance (Frei,...

Confidence Trick

Unbelievably, sitting down yesterday to write this article I was struggling to know what to write. Sunday’s performance against Wolves was superb. It was our third straight Premier League victory and we scored five or more goals in a home league game for the third...