Tag Archives: english football

Is the Premier League vulnerable to another departure?

big six scarf A new European football competition was officially proposed on Thursday by A22, the sports management company set up to help establish a new Super League. Following the European Court of Justice’s ruling in favor of the proposed separation, which was announced in April 2021 before collapsing a few days later, organizers have… Read More »

Manchester City winning the Club World Cup in Saudi Arabia would be the ultimate example of one-sided dominance

Sheikh Mansour will definitely keep a close eye on the action in Jeddah – Reuters/Hamad Al Kaabi Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City squad set off for Jeddah just hours after dropping another two points in a Premier League season that was disrupted by the minor incident of reaching the world title for the first… Read More »

Terry Venables, the manager who saved English football from parochialism

Terry Venables was so popular with the Euro 96 generation that England’s senior players were constantly discussing his return to the country’s radioactive tracksuit. Has Glenn Hoddle been sacked? “Bring Terry back.” Will Kevin Keegan resign in the Wembley toilets? “Let Venners back in.” There are only echoes of this now, but for decades after… Read More »

Pilchards, Chestnuts and Clockwork Cheese: hunting sport’s strangest nicknames

Four years ago, a journalist who liked going to obscure non-league football matches on winter evenings told another journalist who liked interesting facts that Perranporth, a Cornish team playing in the St Piran’s League Division 4 West, were known as the Pilchards. Their manager was also once quoted as saying: “I’m gutted.” Thus began an… Read More »