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 […]