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90s Gold: Why Norwich City’s nearly men of 1992/93 still hold a place in our hearts

The Norwich City side that came so close to winning the inaugural Premier League title in 1992/93 remains a cherished collective for anyone who…

23/01/2021

How Waddle and the Owls became the beautiful losers of the nineties

Johan Cruyff’s Holland or Jimmy the ‘Whirlwind’ White may bristle at the notion but there is a heroic kind of glory in losing beautifully…

10/01/2021

Useless! The absolute worst Premier League XI of 2020

2020, by every metric and by every definition, was an atrocious year. A global pandemic brought the world to its knees, while in the…

01/01/2021

Five of the Premier League’s most misunderstood players

Football, as the wise sage Joey Barton once said, is a game of opinions but sometimes those opinions can be wrong. It, therefore, follows…

19/12/2020

Why Kane and Son are a striking partnership for the ages

The tactical revolution of the 2000s laid waste to the notion that every team must have two centre-forwards working in tandem. Playmakers came into…

16/12/2020

Five bonkers statistical oddities the Premier League has served up this season

In the grip of a prolonged pandemic the world is pretty messed up right now; unfamiliar and peculiar. Just going to the shops can…

04/12/2020

Opinion: Is Pep Guardiola’s contract extension really something to be celebrated?

Manchester City’s 5-0 deconstruction of West Ham on the opening day of the 2019/20 season was as comprehensive as the score-line suggests. The home…

27/11/2020

Media treatment of Marcus Rashford shows no lessons have been learned from the Sterling witch-hunt

For several years now my job has involved writing about Manchester City and because of this, I picked up on the media’s weird and…

20/11/2020

Remembering Gary Speed: A unique and gifted everyman

When looking back on Gary Speed’s extensive and distinguished career four traits particularly stand out. There was his longevity of course; playing into his…

10/11/2020