In recognition of his breakthrough year and the performances he put in he was also named on the shortlist for the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Young Player of the Year award alongside the ...

Now each of these points challenges the very essence of football, and implies that much of the time we are being lied to. Lied to, for example, in terms of which players a club is going to sign, and ...

Now the first thing to note is that after six games, the top four were the same top four as at the end of the season. The only difference is that Arsenal moved above Manchester C. And that change wasn ...

The ruling seems to mean that players will always have the option to buy themselves out of their contract, rather than being trapped with a club. That in turn would open the door to the club wanting ...

And yet last summer’s figures show quite clearly that much of thetime spending money on players is more likely to take a club down the league than lift it up. And for that minority of clubs which are ...

Slowly little bits of the media are awakening to the fact that the World Cup final is going to be played on July 19, the absolute height of the American summer, at the New Jersey MetLife Stadium.

But Manchester City being fined £2m for delayed re-starts and then being fined £1m for doing exactly the same thing again the following season seems rather pointless for two reasons. One is they won’t ...

The lack of journalistic coverage of football in England however means there is every chance that those clubs that have been guilty of the abuse of young players, either by allowing staff to abuse ...

The Leeds turnaround does look rather strange but in fact their great start to the season did only last three games with wins against Chelsea and Wolverhampton and a draw with Southampton. After that, ...

Certainly the money the PL clubs earn has gone up year after year after year. As the BBC put it “The Premier League has been spectacularly successful since it started in 1992. Since that time consumer ...

Obviously research in this area is hindered by the fact that researchers cannot go around asking under 16 year olds if they have been abused, so instead research focuses on those aged over 18 who ...

Indeed the historic list of free transfers executed by letting it be known in the media that Real Madrid will sign them, if only they will let their contract run down, is quite impressive, as the ...