Premier League Preview | Everton
Everton sit alongside Leicester and Wolves as the three times that I am currently most excited about in the Premier League. I would absolutely forgive Everton fans themselves of not necessarily having quite the same positivity, as they have suffered from all-too-familiar false dawns in recent times. But if you look through Everton’s team, the […]
Premier League Preview | Crystal Palace
It doesn’t feel like hyperbole to boil the preview of Crystal Palace’s season down to a consideration of the Zaha situation. It was evident from last season’s performances how much they rely on him – games with and without him on the pitch were chalk and cheese. The fact that the window slammed shut with […]
Premier League Preview | Chelsea
Chelsea are embarking on what will be one of the more fascinating seasons we’re likely to see any club. Having been the trailblazers in the UK for the ‘spend until you win’ mentality, their transfer ban now sees them needing to fall back on incumbents rather than arrivals. Similarly, it feels like the appointment of […]
Premier League Preview | Burnley
Burnley are a club that are truly to be admired – and an aspirational story that should give hope to all clubs out there in the football league ladder. They are from an unglamorous city, they have a manager that could be used as the poster boy for the phrase ‘down-to-earth’, they rarely spend money, […]
Deadline Day Review
I’m not sure if it is the sensationalism that has been forcibly injected with increasing desperation by both the BBC and Sky Sports into deadline day, but today felt like something of an anti-climax. The day felt like it had peaked when Juventus stepped in to kybosh the Dybala-to-Spurs deal, and that happened around lunchtime. […]
Premier League Preview | Brighton
I have a real soft spot for Brighton, although that extends far more to the city than it does to the football club. That’s not to say I have any active dislike for the club, it’s just that any optimism or good feeling I have towards the football team seems to stem more from a […]
Premier League Preview | Bournemouth
I struggle to imagine the prevailing emotion one must feel as a Bournemouth fan in the Premier League. On the one hand, it feels nothing short of miraculous that the are about to embark on their 5th year at the top table, but on the other, I feel like whenever that cold harsh reality of […]
Premier League Preview | Aston Villa
Did Aston Villa see what happened to Fulham last season? A sense of deja-vu hangs in the air when considering what Aston Villa might do this season. Just like Fulham did before them, they are arriving on the back of an exciting playoff run followed by significant investment in the offseason. Aston Villa have already […]
Premier League Preview | Arsenal
Arsenal have become the perennial paradox for football writers. At one and the same moment they are eminently predictable but inevitably spend a lot of the time seemingly undermining all of those who espouse their predictability. I also suspect that Arsenal are a god-send to a writer leaving their season preview to the last moment, […]
Going Slow
Sport loves speed. For a decade or so the world seemed to collectively lose its mind every time Usain Bolt took to the track. In baseball there are blog posts seeking advice for which radar gun to buy to track your son’s pitches in high school, the whole damn industry of motorsport is built around […]