Did A Lack Of Funding Cost Benitez His Job?
In footballing terms, the phrase “mutual consent” is often used when a club and a manager part ways, usually it’s just a nicer way of saying that the manager concerned...
The Supporters Trust Movement Reaches Serie A
Yesterday was an important day in Italian Football Culture, as Serie A’s first Supporters Trust – Azionariato Popolare AS Roma – was formed, as the first attempt to run a...
How Ben Foster Highlights The Farce Of The Loan System
Ben Foster has made news today by becoming the first player to openly criticise the Manchester United fans’ Green and Gold campaign to oust the Glazer family. However, something more...
Walsall, Cypriot Flags and Freedom of Speech
The West Midlands will have four league teams in the top flight next season for the first time since 1986, but while the rest of the Black Country and Birmingham...
The Case Against The Play-Offs
Depending on which levels of football you follow, you may not have noticed that we’re in the middle of play-off season. The Championship Play-Offs begin tomorrow as Nottingham Forest travel...
Technology In Football
It rather seems as if every time there is a refereeing decision that costs a team a point or two, the usual suspects in the media start stating the case...
Can Football Be Saved? A Five-Point Manifesto
A new year is the perfect time for a fresh start, and Rob Freeman has been looking at ways that football could clean up its financial act once and for...
The 2009/10 Preview – The Championship (Or, Let’s Face It, Division Two)
The last of our Football League season previews is now ready, and Rob Freeman is on familiar ground this evening, in the Championship. As a quick reminder, the Championship match...
The 2009/10 Preview: League One (Division Three, In Old Money)
In the penultimate part of our exhaustive Football League pre-season preview, Rob Freeman looks at the runners and riders in League One, a division which is, peculiarly, starting to look...
The 2009/10 Preview: League Two (Division Four, In Old Money)
It’s time for the next of our gargantuan pre-season previews we’re off to League Two, where the Bovril is likely to be scalding hot and the pies may still be...
Sir Bobby Robson – 1933-2009
It has been a very sad day for football on the eve of the new season. We have lost one of us. It is, perhaps, a reflection of the hole...
Livi On The Edge?
As the fallout from the Setanta collapse threatens to throw Scottish Football into turmoil, Rob Freeman takes a look at one of Scotland’s franchise clubs, Livingston, who are close to...
The True Price Of Buying Newcastle United
With Setanta now collapsing, this close season is getting more and more difficult for Premier League clubs. Some of these problems, however, have been due to own ill-thought out decisions,...