Player Focus: Is Wayne Rooney Worth All That Money?
by Jonathan Wilson
at martedì, feb 25 2014 11:57
Working out precisely what happened between Wayne Rooney and Sir Alex Ferguson towards in the end of last season is a baffling task. Although Ferguson subsequently claimed Rooney had demanded a transfer, there were rumours about a year ago that Ferguson felt he was past his best and had begun to inv...
Team Focus: Meulensteen Dismissed Just as Recovery Began at Fulham
by Jonathan Wilson
at lunedì, feb 17 2014 14:55
Perhaps the attempt is futile. Maybe we should just accept that there is no logic to what Shahid Khan has done at Fulham, that sacking two managers in a season, lurching from one style of football to another, is just a thing that rich men do and that to try to spy deeper meaning is pointless. Perhap...
Team Focus: Crystal Palace - A Team on the Rise Under Pulis
by Jonathan Wilson
at lunedì, feb 10 2014 15:05
When Tony Pulis took over at Crystal Palace in November, they lay bottom of the Premier League with just four points from 11 games. They seemed doomed, but Pulis nonetheless gathered the players at their Beckenham training ground and told them that he had never been relegated and had no intention of...
Team Focus: Belief at Sunderland Gathering Under Poyet
by Jonathan Wilson
at martedì, feb 4 2014 13:24
About 20 years ago, I was drinking in a pub in West Jesmond when I was accosted at the bar by a grey-haired, grey-stubbled man who worked on the Hoppings, an annual fair that was held on the Town Moor in Newcastle each year. Learning I was from Sunderland, he sucked through the gaps in his teeth and...
Player Focus: Contrasting Conversion Rates of the Premier League's Top Strikers
by Jonathan Wilson
at lunedì, gen 20 2014 16:58
Team Focus: Cardiff's Need to Solve Goalscoring Woes
by Jonathan Wilson
at lunedì, gen 13 2014 14:34
Player Focus: Is Juan Mata a Mourinho Player?
by Jonathan Wilson
at lunedì, gen 6 2014 14:53
League Focus: 3 Conclusions from the Premier League Season So Far
by Jonathan Wilson
at martedì, dic 31 2013 11:00
Team Focus: Hit & Hope Aston Villa in Panic Mode
by Jonathan Wilson
at lunedì, dic 23 2013 16:27
Take two teams. Put on the shirt of one of the teams, walk to the centre circle and blindfold yourself. Tell the teams to walk out onto a pitch and stand around. Take a bag of balls and start kicking them around. Half would go to your own players and half to the opposition. So long as you didn&rsquo...
Player Focus: Fernandinho - Breaker and Maker of Play
by Jonathan Wilson
at lunedì, dic 16 2013 17:20