In a word: no. The 20 top-flight clubs’ turfs vary in dimensions, but (pardon the pun) does that make it a level playing field? Should there be regulations for single-size pitches across the...

Much as managers understandably hold a clean sheet in high regard, there is nothing quite like a great flurry of goals, at least from the neutral’s point of view. Before 2007, the Premier League...

Given money is such an abundant commodity in football nowadays, the game has become so much more than about just what happens between 22 players on a pitch for 90 minutes. It is now a global...

“I always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves,” once said Bill Shankly, one of Liverpool’s most successful managers, rather sardonically. It may...

As even the passing observer of English football will have noticed by now, the days of giving a manager time are long gone. There is hardly a single boss not a bad run form away from at least feeling...

It’s fair to say that English clubs have had, at best, mixed success when it’s come to signing players from the Dutch league, the Eredivisie. For every Robin van Persie, there’s been a Jozy...