Arrigo Sacchi: The influence continues
All the big, successful teams have one thing in common. They like to control the situation. That’s all good, but the greatest goal should be to let the crowd have fun. Tactics…
Confessions Of A United Fan
Amidst the cacophony of bitter personal savagery masquerading as banter yesterday, what most people missed is, other than the fact that United clearly deserved to win the game yesterday, the United –…
Roma Resurgence- Rudi Garcia’s Tactics
In 2006, Roma manager Luciano Spalleti was facing a crisis. Injuries had hit his side hard, leaving them bereft of any fit centre-forward to lead the line. So Spalleti was forced to play…
The importance of being ‘not that good’
“Roberto Carlos floats the ball in, and Zidaaaaane! What a goal!” Hampden Park, May 2002. Real Madrid had just won their 9th European Cup/Champions League and coach Vicente Del Bosque was all…
Arsene Wenger: The right man to take Arsenal back to glory.
Arsenal celebrated the 17th year (of appointment) of their long serving manager, Arséne Wenger with a clinical 2 – 0 win against the Italian side Napoli. That week ended with a hard-fought…
Mathieu Flamini: For once, the sequel could be better!
This photo was taken back when Arsenal were just starting to give fans hope that it was truly the start of a new successful chapter post the Invincibles. It was just that…
From FIFA in amateur mode to FM with custom tactics: The evolution of football styles.
Style. What does it even mean? Wearing the perfect clothes? Behaving a certain way? Buying things to accentuate yourself? I am no expert at style. I wear a white t-shirt with a…
Ö-zil to the Arsenal
The summer transfer window of 2013 ended just over a week ago on the second of September. Gareth Bale’s transfer from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid is undoubtedly the biggest piece…
Football insults your intelligence
Football insults your intelligence. Glove off, squarely across your face. How’s that for getting your attention? Now, I’m not particularly saying you’re a twit, but, really, I would be dishonest if I…
A Poor First Touch
A fan standing not more than 30 feet behind manager Arsene Wenger holding up a white poster with three red words in vertical succession saying ‘Spend Spend Spend’. That is the image…
That Mad Hope
Many claim that they dreamt of being in his place at that very moment, but most don’t mean it or don’t understand how difficult it would have been to even stand on…
La Liga: The disaster within all the brilliance
Falcao to AS Monaco. Negredo to Manchester City. Llorente to Juventus. Soldado to Tottenham Hotspurs. Higuain to Napoli. La Liga’s 5 best strikers after the two goal-scoring mammoths in Ronaldo and Messi,…
Is This Now Messi-Lona?
June 24th, 1987 – Rosario in Argentina. A mother delivers a baby boy who goes on to dominate world football’s achingly unforgiving eye. A boy who becomes a man by producing moments…
Wayne Wayne Go Away, Come Again Some Other Day
Just to be clear, I don’t want Wayne Rooney to leave United. But it was too tempting a pun to let go of. Right, now that that’s settled, let’s get to the…
Transfer fiction
A dive in the ocean ‘I’m the king of the world!!!’ It was no Titanic, but a private yacht all the same. Bale sailed onwards, heart set on a move to Madrid.…
Liverpool’s Transfer window – A play in strategy
“Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows, they end with 10 or 15-year lows.” – Jim Rogers Albeit Jim Rodger’s statement is more applicable to financial stock markets, investments, returns…
Pundit Gary Neville: A Sign Of Things To Come?
The journey from being the player every non-United fan loved to hate to one of the most uniformly respected and liked commentators in the United Kingdom has been a surprisingly quick one…
For once, Madrid’s developing some Galacticos.
Having spent 71.7 million euros on 4 players, it appears to be business as usual at Real Madrid. Spend big money on players who will eventually crash and burn under the “slight”…
Let’s put an end to it, Wayne.
“I would never forgive Rooney.” sighed a fellow United fan. Despite knowing nothing would convince him, I argued, “Dude, it is okay. Reading from what the former United players have told, he is an…
To leave, or not to leave, is the question.
‘He will. He won’t. He will. He won’t. He will, won’t he?’ This is the story of almost every high-profile transfer saga we can remember in recent times. Thiago Alcantara’s tryst with…
In Moyes, we trust
The Premier League fixtures are out and what have we seen from David Moyes, the new Manchester United manager-successor to Sir Alex Ferguson – yet? That happens only after July 1st, when…
We are the noisy neighbours. Some calmness? Yes please.
The name Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti isn’t a new one in the world of football, and his recent appointment as manager to Manchester City was met with a largely positive response from…
Emancipation of a YouTube footballer
Neymar is a YouTube Footballer – a year long saga and €57m later, he was paraded in front of 50,000 Blaugrana faithful at the Camp Nou on June 3rd. ” I think it’s…
FC Barcelona – A Big Boobed Side
No, this article is not derogatory. Yes the title is to grab your attention. No, you may not irritate us about it. Rather, think of this as a transfer preview/review/fan view and…