Chelsea Football Club, Cole Palmer, Premier League, Manchester City, football, Mauricio Pochettino, Stamford Bridge
On the feel and functionality of Cole Palmer

A lot of changes have occurred at Chelsea Football Club over the past eighteen months. Ownership has changed. Coaches have been fired and hired more than once. The change of ownership has…

Liverpool Are Fun Again

The Champions League is the pinnacle of club football, but the Europa League is not that bad, right? You are still competing for a major title, you are still going up against…

Irresistible: Thank You, Eden Hazard

Football lacks entertainers. The wonderful ability of an individual to captivate and tantalise stadiums with an uncoachable skill, distinguishing them from everyone else, is fading. Eden Hazard’s retirement is a poignant reminder…

Arsenal, Identity, and Evolution

Once, while out skating, I took a crack to the back of my head in a fall, knocking myself out. When I began to come around, I experienced an accelerated evolution of…

Football, Newcastle United, football clubs, football fans, Premier League, Saudi Arabia, sportswashing, football fandom, NUFC, NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing
Why I Gave Up My Newcastle United Season Ticket

For some years now, I’ve had the impression that the UK’s relationship with Saudi Arabia represented the absolute worst of this country for a number of reasons: The hypocrisy of pursuing policies…

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The Greatest Team Ever…That I Played (a Bit) For

Amidst all the pre-Covid journalistic and internet chatter about whether the all-conquering Liverpool team’s season was the greatest ever, various alternative candidates were put forward. These ranged from Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’ 2003-4 season…

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Are We Ever Going to Look Beyond the Skin?

The opening sequence of Inglorious Basterds is a masterclass on how to write a lede. There is much to rave about its aesthetic treatment, but Christoph Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa really…

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