For the last 5 years, it has been very hard to argue that Barcelona have not been the best team in the world. To say another club are better would seem ridiculous. From next season, however, I think that there is a new team who can claim that throne; FC Bayern München. Already with unbelievably talented players, such as Franck Ribéry, Thomas Müller and Bastian Schweinsteiger, so much so, they beat a Dortmund team looking for their 3rd straight Bundersliga title with 6 games to go, it’s frightening to think …

I am bored. When the Internationals come around its like nothing is happening in the world of football. Even journalists admit that it does be a quiet time for stories. I don’t look forward to any games. There just are none to look forward to. England, for example, had a tricky away tie to San Marino last Friday. Excitement just isn’t the word to describe it. Literally. It finished 8-0 in the end. It just begs the question…What is the point of this layout in the International scene?
We are now …

This UEFA Champions League quarter-final stage is the first campaign in which a British or English team has not featured in since 1996. Many journalists suggesting the Premier League has been nullified by leagues in Spain and Germany. Many more journalists suggesting the British teams are not as good as previous seasons. All absolute rubbish. This season has been one of the best exhibits of the Premier League since Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo were in it. It all boils down to two simple facts: too many foreign imports and …

The last time Feyenoord were crowned champions of Holland the new Millennium was still hotly anticipated, Manchester United had yet to win the treble and their current midfield maestro, Jordy Clasie was only seven years old. Since then there has been a tumultuous thirteen season period which has seen failed championship challenges, financial meltdown and a hugely embarrassing 10-0 defeat with the Rotterdam club in the midst of a boardroom level conflict. There has been a solitary UEFA Cup win in 2002 but you would be hard pressed to find …

FIFA General Secretary, Jerome Valcke, has confirmed that moving the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to the winter has not been discounted as an option. Due to the baking hot temperatures in the Middle East emirate, playing a football competition at the traditional time of year could be dangerous for both players and fans.
It’s reignited the fury against FIFA surrounding the decision made in 2010 – on the same day awarding Russia the 2018 competition.
Moving the competition to winter may be the only choice for FIFA. There’s no saying that …

As I sat here Real Madrid currently lead Barcelona by one goal in the second leg of their Copa Del Rey semi final yet El Clásico no longer leaves footballing aficionados gripped to their television sets in the manner it once did. Now don’t get me wrong, the large majority of the footballing populous still tunes in to watch the Catalan might of FC Barcelona take on the mercurial traditionalist Real Madrid of Spain‘s capital city but there now seems to be far less of a neutral interest in this …

International football still divides opinion. Some see it as an unnecessary disruption of the domestic season and others wait for the days at Wembley to watch teams of Brazil’s stature. One thing is for certain, international sides are becoming more alike domestic teams than ever before. I’m not starting a Spain and Barcelona debate here. What I mean is the influx of players who cannot say they are English, Irish, German, etc. but rather they are of duel nationalities.
Players who bring something different to a side and are accepted as …

England’s win against Brazil extended the winning streak against top international opposition (albeit in friendly’s), but can Hodgson translate this winning formula into a victorious World Cup campaign? Well firstly he must get the team through the tricky qualifiers against Ukraine and Montenegro next month. He can take confidence from the performance against Brazil, where the team played a positive passing game, even though it was against a mediocre Brazilian team.
The star of the show was undoubtedly Jack Wilshere, who outshone the disappointing Neymar and fading Ronaldinho. His ability to …

Football fans had been anticipating January eagerly as the transfer window was re- opening, preparing for mesmerizing speculation and ‘knee-jerk’ decisions, seeing which new players were bought into their club and observing who departed. So who would have thought that the biggest talking point so far in January, would be a managerial one, the decision of the sought after Pep Guardiola to take over at Bayern Munich in the summer.
I first heard the news, when I received a message by a good friend of mine who works for a leading broadcast …

The middle of the season and the middle of January – otherwise known as ‘Silly Season’.  A time where Chairmen panic, Managers get sacked on a whim and clubs scramble for the signature of players whom they hope will save their season – albeit for an over inflated price.
This, in turn, kicks off another round of the ‘Big Club’ debate, usually sparked by a fans outrage that a ‘smaller’ club dare to be linked with one of their players – let alone actually put a bid in for him.
I cannot …