Retrievers: Ranking the five Premier League players to win back possession the most in 19/20
Possession is often referred to as nine-tenths of the law and football is certainly no different, so it certainly helps any side with aspirations…
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Tweets of the Week: Champions League quarters, Coutinho haunts Barcelona, Guardiola Peps it up
The best tweets of the week from the world of football, featuring the last eight of the Champions League, Bayern Munich and Philippe Coutinho…
Barcodes and bus seats: The most underwhelming Premier League kits of 2020/21
Another season, another spate of new kits flooding into the market. We all love a good kit, but the sheer number of new releases…
Sharp Shooters: The 7 Premier League players with the best goals per shot ratio in 19/20
English football’s top tier is blessed with an abundance of attacking talent at present, with last season’s Golden Boot having proven an open race…
Ranking the five European sides with the most goals scored in 2020
Football’s finest sides may be built on solid defences, but there is nothing quite like a free-flowing attack to excite supporters and a world-class…
Appreciating the seven men to lift the Champions League as a player and manager
The UEFA Champions League is widely regarded as the pinnacle of club football, the continental competition fiercely contested between world football’s biggest clubs and…
Five of the Champions League’s biggest knockout round upsets
Atalanta’s maiden venture into the Champions League ended in heartbreaking fashion with a late defeat to Paris Saint-Germain this week, the first-time qualifiers coming…
Neymar performance a timely reminder of his true standing in the game
In the end it was perhaps the most devastating result for so-called ‘neutrals’ in the history of the Champions League. With just seconds to…
90s Football Hall of Fame: Goalkeeping legend and all-round great guy Neville Southall
Former Everton and Wales netminder Neville Southall is the latest inductee into the 90’s Football Hall of Fame. Southall enjoyed a successful 17-year spell…
Ranking the five goalkeepers with most clean sheets in Champions League history
The UEFA Champions League annually pits together the world’s finest footballers, with only a fortunate few getting their hands on the famous old trophy.…
Difference makers: The player each UCL quarter-finalist will be looking to for inspiration this week
We’ve reached the business end of the Champions League as the quarter-finals begin this evening, each of the remaining eight sides now just two…
Ranking the seven players with most knockout stage goals in UCL history
It’s crunch time in the Champions League this week as football fans across Europe eagerly anticipate the quarter-finals of world football’s best club competition,…
The boys from Bergamo: How Atalanta became everyone’s second favourite team
For all the talk of the Champions League becoming a closed shop, Atalanta have punched through the door of Europe’s elite and are looking…
Picking the best starting XI from Premier League managers who are former players
Great players don’t necessarily become great managers, but the trend of appointing former players – particularly those with previous links to the club –…
Picking the best U23 XI in European Football right now
World football is currently blessed with an abundance of young talent as an emerging generation begin to make their mark on the sport, a…
Ranking the winning points margin in each of Europe’s top five leagues title races in 19/20
Premier League fans often laud England’s top tier as the most competitive league in world football, but Liverpool’s runaway title success this season did…
Ranking the remaining eight teams in this season’s Uefa Champions League
The last eight of the Champions League is here, but not as we know it. The quarter- and semi-finals will be one-off knockout ties,…
Tweets of the Week: Sarri sacked, Sanchez leaves, and Scott Parker’s rhyme
The best tweets of the week from the world of football, featuring Maurizio Sarri’s sacking by Juventus, Man United finally ridding themselves of Alexis…