Category: Premier League

It is a curious anomaly that a Premier League season that has started with a somewhat muted feel to it than previous years should have thrown up such an eventful first weekend. One could be persuaded that the glamour, the glitz, the pomp and the circumstance count for little, and that what matters is the quality of the matches themselves, the actual football, and just occasionally a reminder or two that to err is human. Sometimes the game is at its best when there is an element of slapstick about it. In the current Premier League, there has been...

This has been a quiet summer so far, but last weekend finally saw what will most likely come to be remembered as the transfer story of the summer. After thirteen years at Old Trafford, Wayne Rooney is returning to Goodison Park to rejoin Everton, the club with which he started his career more than a decade and a half ago. And, since only six football clubs in England really matter any more, the press is having a field day with its analyses of Rooney’s legacy with Manchester United and England, but there is something of a problem with this,...