The Finest of Margins
A common refrain heard in the crowds of the Tottenham Hotspur stadium on Saturday Afternoon was that the performance felt like a throwback to the worst of the Angeball era. As well as some of the ponderous buildup, a disappointing defeat to Bournemouth in the aftermath of a rousing victory against Man City also contained […]
Momentum is Everything (Momentum is Nothing)
Momentum is the most ephemeral of the footballing concepts. Some people will tell you it’s everything, others will tell you it’s nothing. A team can come in bang in form and blow the other team away, but we’ve equally seen plenty of times when the pre-match overwhelming favourite lays an egg and gets trounced by […]
Misery Loves Company
For football fans, sometimes schadenfreude is the only thing they have left. Last season Man Utd were the last team standing offering opposing fans the succour of “Things might be bad for us, but it could be worse, we could be United fans…”. On Sunday, the prime time kickoff was a renewal of a rivalry […]
Brave is Beautiful
Anyone who has played at any level of football has at one time done this: A goalie or a defender has the ball, you’re playing against a team that aggressively presses, and you “call” for the ball from a position where you know the player on the ball will never find you. The brave thing […]
Marco Kasper – The Future Is In His Hands
The woes of the Red Wings rebuild – both self-inflicted and those borne of bad luck have been well documented. From bad choices when they have picked highly (Filip Zadina) to worse luck in the lottery, there are plenty of ways to explain why the return to the playoffs has taken longer than expected. As […]
Red Wings – Not Screwing Things Up
We are in the dog days of Summer from an NHL reporting perspective. That means a plethora of ‘ranking the offseason’ or ‘way too early prediction’ articles are coming out. As usual, there are plenty of opinions flying around, but one that seems to be consistent across these articles is that the Red Wings have […]
Texas and Alabama’s Fates are Entwined
While the CFB Playoff commitee may be viewed by many as an entirely flawed system for deciding who makes the postseason, for me it throws up one of my favourite storylines for a season – when one team’s early season result against another entwines their fate for the reason of that year. The unexpectedly close […]
NFL Season Preview | AFC South
The AFC South is definitely one of the most condensed divisions in the NFL this season, and especially with the recent events in Indianapolis, one without a clear leader and relative parity through the rest of the teams. It feels like the best place to start when trying to pick apart these teams would be […]
NFL Season Preview | AFC West
The AFC West is probably one of the more interesting divisions in the league – headlined by the Chiefs, who are looking to ride a newly-minted star quarterback into a dynasty, but with the often-overlooked Chargers close behind them. The Raiders appearance on Hard Knocks is probably the most on-the-nose TV appearance for any team, […]
Injuries and Sporting Humanity
“He’s someone doing something that conventional wisdom says is not the thing to do,” said David Shaw, a Stanford graduate who was named the Cardinal’s football coach last month. “But the people here say, ‘I understand.’ ” If I told you the above quote was about Andrew Luck, it would probably not surprise you at […]