Opinion/Features

Some of the Premier League’s leading clubs have taken a refreshing approach to new managerial appointments this season, with both Chelsea and Arsenal opting for relative inexperience in the form of Frank Lampard and Mikel Arteta respectively. Arteta has taken his first role in senior management at the Emirates and …

With Liverpool’s primacy in the Premier League this season, it’s easy to forget that just two seasons ago, Pep Guardiola led Manchester City to an unprecedented degree of dominance in the Premier League and became the country’s first side to amass 100 points in a single league campaign. They may …

Every business out there wants to be associated with a successful football club or player to get more attention for their brand, but it doesn’t always work out so well.  In some cases, the resultant advertisements and endorsements are just downright awful. Marketing agencies should learn from these lousy examples. …

The 1996/97 Premier League season followed a memorable summer for English football, England’s run to the last four of a home European Championships having captured the imagination of the nation. Premier League football resumed amid much change with a world-record move for the division’s leading forward and a collection of …

Arguably the most respected footballing nation on the planet, Brazil have produced some of the game’s all-time greats throughout the years with many a leading name starring after arriving in European football. Whilst many South American stars once traditionally opted for warmer climates once leaving their homeland, there has been …

Behind any great side is a successful defence and the Premier League era has witnessed some brilliant backlines throughout its near three decade history, but which club has recorded the most shut-outs of all-time? We’ve scrolled back through the archives to discover the best defensive sides of the modern era, …

Any player capable of playing Premier League football well into their late thirties deserves the utmost amount of credit, though these ‘golden oldies’ may not be too pleased with their unwanted place in this particular list. We’ve decided to look back through the records at the oldest players to be …

One club men are becoming a rarer breed of footballer in this day and age, but there are those became such massive club icons that we can’t picture them in anything other than the constant colours they wore through their careers.  Francesco Totti – AS Roma Perhaps the most iconic …

Our latest rewind and look back at the Premier League archives takes us to the 1995/96 season, a campaign which began with Alan Hansen’s exclamation that ‘you can’t win anything with kids’ – an iconic line that would come back to haunt the Match of the Day pundit in spectacular …

On the 18th of April 1995, Eric Cantona welcomed twelve young football hopefuls to the indoor gym at the Cliff Training Centre, Salford. The children were aged between nine and eleven years old and came from local clubs and schools in the Salford area. The coaching programme devised by Cantona …