Stekelenburg to the rescue as Everton hold off resurgent Spurs
The changing of the guard. Tim Howard, his bald, spare visage and Tourette’s induced gesticulations that have been part...
Category: Soccer Coaches & Coaching
Ahead of Liverpool, Arsenal face a mountainous shortage in tactical acumen and defenders
The gulf in tactical acumen widens with the re-admission of Mourinho and Guardiola’s debut Premier League opening day weekend...
One month to go for resumption of ancient hostilities
Manchester United will face Manchester City for the first time in the new EPL season on the 10th of...
Mourinho Schweinsteiger saga takes new twist.
José Mourinho is in the news for the wrong reasons again. Dejan Stefanovic, a lawyer and FifPro member from...
Mourinho gives Schweinsteiger boot on birthday
Bastian Schweinsteiger has been banished to the outer darkness – Mourinho has told him to take his stuff and...
City get their first win under Pep
Pep Guardiola got his first win as Manchester City manager after a penalty shootout win over Borussia Dortmund somewhere...
Pep cracks whip – bans pizza
After Mourinho banned Chelsea players from playing Pokemon Go it was Pep’s turn to ban something for his team...
Mourinho cracks the whip – bans Pokemon Go
Mourinho has banned Manchester United players from playing Pokemon Go 48 hours before any match. There will probably be...
Manchester United get hammered 4 -1
Dortmund beat Mourinho’s United 4 -1 . Dortmund were firing on all cylinders in the preseason friendly and Manchester...
Pep’s City lose 1-0 to his old club
Pep Guardiola’s first game in charge of Manchester City ended in defeat at his old club Bayern Munich as...
Conte gets his first Chelsea win
Bertrand Traore, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Nathaniel Chalobah struck in Chelsea’s clash with Wolfsberger AC on Wednesday to hand them...
Tacticians who changed the game
From left to right-Linus Michels who along with Johan Cruyff and total football led Ajax to three consecutive European...
United win Chelsea lose
Mourinho and Conte started their new managerial roles with games having an identical scoreline. Únited won their game against...
Meanwhile in Deutschland…
The Germans take it to penalties – as usual. Bayern wins again. Watch the nail-biting penalties below >> And...
A Dancing Fool
Alan Pardew breaks out his cool moves as Crystal Palace takes the lead against Manchester United in the FA Cup Final.. Too...
Man U Fights Back! Van Gaal – It’s TIME!
The character of the club is still vintage, “never-give-in” United. The legend continues. A kid – Jesse Lingard –...
Cagliari fans cheer Claudio Ranieri for Leicester City triumph
Claudio Ranieri led Cagliari from the depths of Serie C to Serie A in his three seasons as manager...
A comeback for the ages: Liverpool stun Dortmund with a late surge, 4-3 (agg 5-4)
The Klopp era is firmly upon Liverpool. The man has astonishingly done it without any of the side’s players...
Wes Morgan sinks Southampton as Leicester keep their tryst with history
We can stop pinching ourselves. Leicester. Will. Be. Champions. Claudio Ranieri is a special coach (as opposed to The...
Mesut Oezil the latest to add to Arsenal squad rumblings as title chances slip away
Alexis Sanchez questioned the “hunger” of his team mates after Arsenal’s loss to Barcelona in the first leg of...
Sir Alex Ferguson is unconvinced Jose Mourinho is the answer to United’s future
Marcus Rashford has justified Louis Van Gaal’s faith in him. Jose Mourinho is keen to cement his move by...
Valencia fires Gary Neville: A string of poor results
The headache is over Gary Neville departs Valencia four months after being hired. They were in ninth place then...
World Cup 2018 qualifier: In crucial win USA knock four unanswered past Guatemala
No love for Klinsmann. Lando must feel some vindication. Jurgen Klinsmann went to his veterans this time to bolster...
England’s basis for optimism: Club level resilience and collectivism
Jamie Vardy’s brilliant improvisation and first England goal There is the usual plethora of opposing reactions to the Three...
World Cup 2018 qualifier: High flying Mexico finish off Canada
The low key Juan Carlos Osorio has gotten El Tri off to a blinding start. Make it four out...
World Cup 2018 qualifier: Guatemala heap misery on poorly playing mistake prone USA
Jurgen Klinsmann looks a bit sad, so too the national side The regression of the MNT under Jurgen Klinsmann...
Ten best things Johan Cruyff did
1. With Rinus Michels, gave the world total football, revolutionizing the game, adopted by clubs like Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern...
Dutch master and football’s savant Johan Cruyff passes away at age 68
One of the game’s legends has passed on fighting till the very end his battle with cancer. Johan Cruyff...
Smoke and mirrors: Jose Mourinho’s reported multi-million dollar Man Utd pre-nup
By now football fans will have taken a gander at an El Pais article which reports Man United enter...
Lets face it: This is no longer a farce, Arsenal are a poorly coached side
Another day, another defeat. This time in the FA Cup, the one bright spot in an Arsenal season for...
Steve McClaren becomes the sixth sacked manager
Steve McClaren became the 6th manager to get the boot this season the others being Dick Advocaat (Sunderland),Brendan Rodgers...
Arsene Wenger is more a pundit less a coach
Arsene Wenger, the pundit is sure the £100m mark for a player transfer will be “easy to reach” but...
Closed: The “Sir Alex Ferguson Stand” at Old Trafford
Manchester United are shutting a large section of the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand for this month’s Europa League tie...
The Pep Guardiola Era Begins at City
Thierry Henry on the future of Manchester City with Pep >>
“Dear Sir Bobby Charlton…”
Jose Mourinho writes a 6-page letter to Manchester United explaining what he’d do to turn around the ailing club… Really?...
Louis van Gaal: “We Can Still Win!”
REALLY? Not with what Scholes calls “negative style football.” Keep it moving, cuz. Still, Rooney scores at Anfield,...
Zidane and the risk at Real Madrid
Real Madrid have released an official video showcasing the genius of Zidane in his playing days at the club....
Klopp’s secret singing skills
Jurgen Klopp sang “Happy Birthday” to Liverpool’s Club Officer Matthew Baxter prior to the press conference regarding the boxing...
Thierry Henry on Pep’s three P philosophy
Thierry Henry spoke on Monday Night Football about Pep Guardiola’s football philosophy at Barcelona. Pep’s philosophy of ‘three Ps’...
FIFA medical chief backs Eva Carneiro
Carneiro is taking action against Chelsea for constructive dismissal and an individual action against Jose Mourinho for victimisation and...
Real Madrid may have kicked themselves out of the Copa del Rey
Denis Cheryshev received a suspension after being shown three yellow cards in last season’s competition while playing for Villarreal.As...
Liverpool storm
The Klopp Effect. After beating Chelsea 3 -1 and Manchester City 4 -1 Liverpool stormed into the League Cup...
Diego Costa chucks bib at Mourinho
Diego Costa showed his displeasure at being left out of Chelsea’s game against Tottenham by chucking his bib in...
Ferguson releases book on leadership
Before rushing off to get a copy before they are all sold out read the review here…
Finally a win for Liverpool
Nathaniel Clyne’s goal gave Jurgen Klopp his first victory as Liverpool manager after 3 draws and a lot of...
Ancelotti can’t bear to watch Bayern Munich play
He does not want to watch them because they are too good.He predicts they will win the Bundesliga again...
Mourinho meltdown continues
More despair,despondency,depression and dudgeon for Mourinho. Chelsea – holders of the Capital One Cup – were knocked out in...
Beckham to play under Ferguson again.
Beckham and Fergie are set to make a comeback of sorts. On 14th November the UNICEF are organising a...
Mourinho rubbishes mutiny murmurs
Mourinho with his back to the wall rubbished a report that on top of everything else that had gone...
Jurgen Klinsmann is running out of time and ideas
Four years into Jurgen Klinsmann’s tenure and 76 matches later, there is an increasing sense the US men’s side...
Cruyff calls Mourinho a “bad example”
Johan Cruyff is of the opinion that apart from the other problems that Mourinho is facing at the moment...
Rodgers out
A few hours after Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw by Everton the news broke that Brendan Rodgers...
An Arsenal ritual: Undone by Chelsea again with Mike Dean’s assistance
The focus will be on the sense of injustice swamping Arsenal fans with the sending off of Gabriel and...