Football gives us plenty of moments built for outrage, and I have spent enough time this week writing about shin pads, ticket prices and managers under pressure to know …
Football careers rarely turn on a single sentence. Most decline slowly, through loss of form, injury, age, or simply a manager who prefers someone else. But every so often …
When Manchester United put pieces of Old Trafford turf on sale for £125 a cube this week, the reaction across the country was the same eye roll and the …
I have watched enough Palace matches over the years to remember when shin pads actually looked like they were protecting something, clumpy plastic slabs running most of the way …
Five games into a season rarely means anything definitive, and I know that as well as anyone who has watched Palace start slowly only to find their feet by …
I have been calling Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham “the Big Six” my entire adult life, and I think this is the season I finally …
Some football arguments have a correct answer buried somewhere inside the stats if you dig hard enough. This one does not, and I have come to genuinely enjoy that …
There is a specific kind of dread that settles over a stadium when a player gets sent off while their team is winning comfortably. Everyone in the ground knows, …
I watched Rayan Cherki destroy Crystal Palace from the away end at Selhurst Park thirteen days ago, and if I am honest, part of me was too busy admiring …
There is a certain kind of football story that reminds you why you fell in love with the game in the first place, and Valdas Dambrauskas walking out at …
