The last man to fall was Manuel Pellegrini losing his job at West Ham United after tonights defeat v. Leicester City. So why is Pellegrini sacked, probably a difficult run of bad results, but also based on him being close to a line telling everyone that life could be more difficult crossing the line and…

Popular culture sees the advent of the Premier League in 1992 it as a distinct dividing line, between images of burly, mutton-chopped mullet wearers venturing to deliberately injure one another, and the preened superstars engaging in inch-perfect passing and counter-attacking seen today. That is far from the case though, and even in the Premier League…

Jamie Vardy is again flying high in Premier League, scoring goals for fun and leading Leicester City into a new sensational run in English football. Records are again broken under the leadership of Brendan Rodgers. When Jamie Vardy “had his last PL winning party”, back in 2015/16 he did knock a few records down “the…

Few might remember Paul Cannell and Roy “Rocky” Hudson from the limelight of World football, but they played with and against some of the greats of this game. After going back and into the annals of the NASL, you find stuff you thought was not part of the football history. But indeed they are and…

The 50’s was a time of transformation and from the end of the World War II everything started to shape up, as football started to change heavily. In that era of time a certain Billy Wright came forward, and became an icon of the game. Looking back in time it’s a chapter not written as…

Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp and Brendan Rodgers are leading the way in the Premier League at the moment, all of them basing their management on severe coaching abilities and the belief in details never overlooked. Those three are technically and tactically setting a new standard on how to build a winning football team, building everything…

Goalkeepers are important in football and over the years you have seen some fantastic performances in the Premier League. Looking at the crop of today you certainly have a flourishing group of players. They come in all sizes and from all over the World, even Isle of Wight have one representative. Simon Moore of Sheffield…

Flamengo is one of the iconic football clubs of Brazil and the city of Rio de Janeiro. The club is today dominating the game and might have the best team in their history, and they have just won the Libertadores, a grand tournament of South America that Flamengo last won and were finalists as far…

A football manager does not have to be the best player in the World, but he needs a bit of luck and some skills that makes it possible to do that special. But a manager without his special assistants around could easily fall into a trap believing he is “the special one”. Being born on…

Norwegian football might not be that glamour, but the names John Arne Riise and Ronny Johnsen is well known and they both experienced to win the Champions League with two of the most iconic football clubs in the World, Liverpool and Manchester United. To see the two now in charge of rival clubs Flint and…