Jack Charlton wasn’t just a football man, but a cultural touchstone for an entire nation
Four months on from Italia 90, the euphoria of Ireland’s World Cup odyssey still simmering down, Jack Charlton appeared on RTE’s The Late Late…
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The best Premier League stats of gameweek 35: Man United and Liverpool runs halted, goal droughts obliterated
The standout statistics from gameweek 35 of the Premier League, featuring Manchester United’s draw with Southampton, two strikers finally end their goal droughts, Raheem…
Ranking the five Premier League goalkeepers to reach 50 clean sheets the fastest
Manchester City’s Ederson moved into the joint-lead for the Golden Glove courtesy of a clean sheet in the club’s midweek win at Brighton, the…
Premier League Team of the Week
It’s been an enthralling week of Premier League action with the games continuing to come thick and fast, a fascinating round of midweek fixtures…
Megs!: Ranking the six Premier League players to complete the most nutmegs this season
There’s something immeasurably satisfying about completing a nutmeg, an audacious piece of skill which simultaneously evokes both joy and embarrassment to the two parties…
Ranking the five Premier League players with the most goals in all comps this season
The race to finish as the league’s leading scorer and win the Premier League’s Golden Boot looks set to go down to the wire,…
Premier League Weekly Awards: Four star Antonio, McGoal-drick, Soyuncu’s meltdown
Every Monday we reward the best and worst of the Premier League action from the past week, featuring Michail Antonio’s destruction of Norwich, David…
Premier League weekend: Five things we learned
With the finish line now in sight, teams continue to grapple away for precious points in what has been another remarkable Premier League season.…
Ron Atkinson: ‘I used to joke with Jack that I had more Irish players than he did’
Everything is bigger in Texas. Even for Big Ron and Big Jack. “One of the first things we did was get those great big…
Appreciating the Premier League’s greatest ever front threes
Manchester United’s impressive run of form has been led by an exciting new-look forward line, with the precocious talents of academy graduate Mason Greenwood…
Tweets of the Week: Jack Charlton, Son vs Lloris, and Pickford’s wonder ‘save’
The best tweets from the world of football this week, featuring the late Jack Charlton, a ‘fight’ between Spurs players, Mason Greenwood’s shooting ability,…
Newcastle takeover silence is becoming deafening
If you can cast your minds back to a couple of months ago, it seemed as if Newcastle United were set to be soon…
Will Thiago be next? Rating the players to play under both Guardiola and Klopp
The name of Thiago Alcantara continues to be linked with a potential summer move to the Premier League, the midfielder reportedly keen on a…
Five of the best teenage talents in Premier League history
There’s nothing quite like the emergence of a talented teenage star to truly excite football fans, and throughout the history of the Premier League…
Five of best Serie A number 10’s of the 90s
There has perhaps never been a league quite like Serie A in the nineties, Italian football the undisputed home of the game’s finest footballers…
How low has Eddie Howe’s managerial stock plummeted?
If you were playing the stock market but were investing in managers instead, Eddie Howe would have been a very shrewd investment a couple…
A pivotal season awaits Spurs manager Jose Mourinho
It’s certainly not been a dull season for Tottenham Hotspur and when you consider that media giant Amazon have been filming a behind-the-scenes documentary…
90’s Football Hall of Fame: Former Spurs winger Darren ‘Sicknote’ Anderton
Former Tottenham Hotspur and England wide man Darren Anderton is the latest inductee into the 90’s Football Hall of Fame. Anderton’s big break came…