James McManus @james-mcmanus-2-2-2-2 ?

Manchester City are the richest football club in the world, this much we all know, and because of those resources, they can pick and choose from the elite of the game as they like, being comfortably able to offer the sort of wages that only perhaps PSG and Chelsea can match. This then leaves some players [...]

Wigan achieved the impossible last season and beat the drop once again, improving on last season’s final day heroics by sealing their top flight status with one game to spare. The result was that the club’s boss Robert Martinez was hailed as some sort of tactical genius, a rising star in the game and he’s recently [...]

Manchester United were pipped to the title on the final day of last season by bitter rivals Manchester City, relinquishing their stranglehold on the league in the process. A key part of manager Sir Alex Ferguson’s gameplan last term was the blooding in of several younger faces, yet the Da Silva twins – Fabio and Rafael [...]

Tottenham are set for a huge summer both on and off the pitch after they cruelly missed out on a Champions League qualification berth by the slimmest of margins after Chelsea secured an unlikely triumph in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich, costing them not only a place at Europe’s top table, but also manager [...]

England have been one of the surprise success stories of Euro 2012 so far, with Roy Hodgson’s side qualifying top of a group containing France, Sweden and co-hosts Ukraine. A notable difference that Hodgson has made has been to return the side to a variant of 4-4-2, but is the formation old-fashioned and out of date [...]

The current Everton boss David Moyes has been heavily linked with the vacant manager’s job at Tottenham after the North London club sacked Harry Redknapp last week. The Scot is also considered a frontrunner for the Manchester United job whenever Sir Alex Ferguson decides to stand down and retire, but a question mark has always hung [...]

On the pitch at Euro 2012 so far, England have performed slightly above expectations after having them dampened so often by those in power, but the aftershocks of the situation that led to the side going into the tournament a month or so before without a manager in place are still being felt, and we shouldn’t [...]

Arsenal look set to welcome the addition of French international midfielder Yann M’Vila after Euro 2012, with the move having already been announced on the French stock market by the player’s club Rennes, that he’s moving for a certain fee somewhere in the very near future. This begs the question, though, where exactly does this leave [...]

Liverpool look set to undergo some major surgery to their playing staff this summer as new boss Brendan Rodgers addresses the issue over whether certain players fit in with his ‘philosophy’ or not, and one player that immediately springs to mind as being under serious threat is Jay Spearing, so what does the future hold for [...]

Chelsea’s run to the Champions League final this season under the guidance of then interim boss Roberto Di Matteo was not the first time that the club have reached the pinnacle of Europe’s premier club competition, having achieved the same feat in 2008 with then interim boss Avram Grant at the helm. Noticing a pattern yet? [...]

After watching Match of the Day 2 the other week, something struck me, something troubling – just why were the pundits so bad? On the sofa we had Alan Shearer, a person incapable of threading together a single coherent sentence and Robbie Savage, an excitable male hairdresser simply using his footballing pulpit as an excuse to [...]

The King is dead. Long live the King. As we pour over in great detail about the myriad of reasons behind Barcelona’s Champions League exit at the hands of Chelsea, one thing has become abundantly clear – they lack a plan B. So is this the end of the Barcelona as we know it? Or is [...]