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Forget Shearer, Jimmy Greaves is English football’s top scorer
There was more significant news to emerge from the football world this weekend but Harry Kane’s two goals against Everton on Friday night moved him ahead of Robbie Fowler in the list of the Premier League all-time scorers.
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‘Big Six’ fans are the biggest victims of the Super League
At Old Trafford, where the eerie nature of behind-closed-doors football is felt more keenly than most other stadiums because of its sheer size, the words ‘football is nothing without fans’ are sprawled across one of the coverings for empty seats.
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United must pull out the stops to keep Edinson Cavani
When Manchester United signed Edinson Cavani, in what appeared to be a desperate move after failing to bring Jadon Sancho to the club, plenty of eyebrows were raised. While the great Urugyuan striker has proven to be one of Europe’s elite marksmen over the course of a glittering career in both Italy and France, the shadow of Radamel Falcao loomed large over Old Trafford.
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Marcelo Bielsa must stay to welcome Leeds fans back
Leeds United can be rather pleased with their return to the top flight of English football and the mastermind behind the current good times is none other than Marcelo Bielsa. The arrival of the Argentine to West Yorkshire made quite a splash in 2018 and, although he would be denied promotion from the EFL Championship at the first time of asking, not even a global pandemic could stand in his way last season.
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Fans must rally against nefarious European Super League
English football was shaken to its foundations on Sunday evening as 12 European clubs, including six from the Premier League, declared themselves founder members of a new European Super League. Although it’s a traditional film trope for supervillains to reveal their dastardly plan to their unsuspecting targets ahead of carrying them out, perhaps these sinister 12 may have underestimated the fury which their Machiavellian scheme would provoke from the sporting world and beyond.
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Tottenham hold the cards in Harry Kane situation
It was reported last week that Harry Kane is considering his future at Tottenham. Last Sunday’s defeat by Manchester United will have done little to convince him to stay. For the eighth time this season Spurs failed to protect a lead and ended up dropping points.
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Is time up for Jose Mourinho at Spurs?
It seems like an awfully long time since Tottenham were top of the Premier League when they visited Liverpool but it was, in fact, just before Christmas. Roberto Firmino’s late header earned the Reds a 2-1 win at Anfield and Spurs have struggled for consistency ever since.
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Paul Pogba becoming the player United hoped he would
Had it not been for the Covid-19 pandemic, there’s a good chance Paul Pogba would have left Manchester United last summer. Everything was set up for the Frenchman to bid farewell to Old Trafford for a second time in his career only for a transfer market, and wider economic, depression to cut off his escape routes.
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5 of the best FA Cup semi-finals ever
With the FA Cup semi-finals upon us again, we we take a look at five of the best in the long and illustrious history of the world’s greatest domestic cup competition. 5 best FA Cup semi-finals ever Fulham 3-5 Manchester United, 1958 The 1957/58 season was the most tragic in Manchester United’s history, as eight players and three club officials were killed in the Munich air disaster.
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Jurgen Klopp facing tough dilemma over Sadio Mane
Last season, only Mohamed Salah scored more than Sadio Mane for Liverpool. 18 goals in 35 Premier League appearances represented another significant haul for the Senegalese forward after he’d struck 22 in 36 games the season before.
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