FA WSL: Is the FA Women’s Super League moving in the right direction?
As the top tier of women’s football in England comes to its conclusion for the 2016 season, Emily Magee looks at the continual growth of the FA Women’s Super League. [...]
November 2016
The Insider: Lynsey Hooper gives her opinions of The Ups and Downs of the Premier League’s title challengers
As we reach another international break and with it the impending winter fixture list it seems as though we have quite the title race on our hands. With so many twists and [...]
Rooney recalled to captain England against Scotland, Non-League manager banned for betting against his own team and Croatian striker sets new hat trick record
1. Wayne Rooney will captain England in their World Cup qualifying game against Scotland at Wembley tomorrow night. Gareth Southgate had left the striker out of the starting [...]
The Offside Rule (We Get It!) Podcast 7: No Standing Still, Manchester City Women, Brits Abroad
Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen are back to bring you an extra football fix during this international break, on The Offside Rule (We Get It!). The mannequin challenge is [...]
Midweek Muse: There was nothing second-rate about the 1990-91 Second Division
Even in days where football at its higher levels has been rendered yawnsomely predicable, Leicester’s 2016 title win reminded us the applecart can still occasionally be [...]
Ref Review: Mark Halsey deems Arsenal goal offside, controversial calls at Chelsea
Mark Halsey from youaretheref.com looks at Arsenal’s “offside” goal, failure to pick up Chelsea challenges and a controversial goal at Stamford Bridge. The [...]
Ronaldo keen on another ten years at Madrid, Kevin Gallacher: Scots can win World Cup Wembley clash and Olivier Giroud’s biggest childhood fear is bizarre
1. Cristiano Ronaldo claims he still has ten years left at the top of his game. Real Madrid’s Portugal international, 31, signed a new deal to keep him at the Spanish [...]
Weekend Views: Chelsea find the key, Leeds United on course but same old issues dog Crystal Palace
In a new addition to the site, Rich Laverty takes a weekly look at five areas of the weekend’s football and explores the key issues behind teams in form, out of form [...]
The North London Derby: Arsenal & Tottenham back at it again
To Tottenham fans, the final moments of last season only served to underline the curse of Arsene Wenger’s reign. That the Frenchman’s Arsenal side had managed to pip [...]
FIFA to punish Republic of Ireland over Easter Rising logo, League Cup to be known as Carabao Cup from 2017/18 and a sensationally bad chipped penalty in Chinese Premier League
1. FIFA have opened disciplinary proceedings against the Republic of Ireland for wearing shirts displaying a logo marking the centenary of the Easter Rising. It comes in the [...]
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