Rich Laverty

Team of the Week: Aston Villa’s Benteke is back to his best, while Man City & Chelsea key men shine

May 4, 2015

By Rich Laverty. This week’s standout performers from the West Brom side that beat Manchester United, the Aston Villa team that edged Everton, plus star men from champions [...]

Q&A with Lille & Denmark defender Simon Kjaer

April 7, 2015

Lille defender Simon Kjaer has played in three of the biggest and toughest leagues in the world, and is constantly linked with a move to the Premier League. The Denmark [...]

Manchester City are a top club – it’s time to start acting like one

March 30, 2015

By Rich Laverty. After a familiar exit from Europe against Barcelona and trailing six points behind Chelsea in the league, can Manchester City get a grip before it’s too [...]

Ref Review – Atkinson keeps control of Liverpool & Manchester United whilst chaos ensues at the Etihad

March 24, 2015

Once again, it’s that time of the week, time to have a rant about the latest batch of poor refereeing decisions and this weekend’s group of games provided plenty [...]

Manchester City Women ready to make the step up

March 18, 2015

By Rich Laverty. Manchester City Women’s Football Club have come a long way and are now looking to follow in the footsteps of the men’s team by challenging the top teams [...]

Ref Review – Manchester City hard done by, Chelsea campaign continuing?

March 18, 2015

By Rich Laverty. Once again, it’s that time of the week, time to have a rant about the latest batch of poor refereeing decisions, and the weekends group of games provided [...]

Ref Review – Newcastle denied blatant penalty whilst Manchester City get lucky against Leicester

March 6, 2015

By Rich Laverty. Once again it’s that time of the week, time to have a rant about the latest batch of poor refereeing decisions and the midweek group of games provided [...]

Ref Review – West Ham harsly done by, Manchester United player sees red against ex-club

March 3, 2015

By Rich Laverty. Once again it’s that time of the week, time to have a rant about the latest batch of poor refereeing decisions and the midweek group of games provided [...]

England’s greatest forgotten manager

February 25, 2015

By Rich Laverty. One of England’s greatest football managers, but the biggest team he played for was Sheffield United; he coached Aldershot Reserves and Skegness Town and [...]

Ref Review – Controversy at Chelsea, bad boy Barton and Harry Kane saves Tottenham, again

February 24, 2015

It’s that time of the week again to have a rant about the latest batch of poor refereeing decisions and the weekend games provided plenty of talking points. This [...]