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The January transfer window is wild and confusing for the best of us. In many ways it is to football what puberty is to life – a time of great change, potential and emotion. Social media feeds are littered with articles analysing the madness but often they leave us in...

The phrase ‘second season syndrome’ is a cliché that is all too easy to resort to, but this Premier League season has had a knack of punishing those teams and managers who were extremely fashionable 12 months ago. Manuel Pellegrini, Roberto Martinez and Brendan Rodgers were strong contenders for...

Dan Zeqiri returns with his weekly column following a much needed winter break… The retirement of Steven Gerrard produced an explosion of articles, columns and blogs dedicated to his illustrious career. You would expect plenty of media reaction when a player of that standing calls it time; but, by...

Ockham’s razor dictates that the simplest explanation is generally the correct one. That could well be true regarding Arsenal’s poor start to the season. They moved on three defenders during the summer (Sagna, Vermaelen, Jenkinson) and only signed two (Debuchy and Chambers). This has left them extremely light on...

With the news that 30% of sports pay men more prize money than women, Matt analyses whether calls for equal prize money in sport are justified… Helen Grant, UK Minister for Sport, has stated that the governing bodies for sports in the UK need to fight for equal prize money...

If one wished to lampoon one of the many foreign owners in the football league, then one could have had a fair old romp this week. Massimo Cellino’s trigger happy regime at Leeds United continued as he sacked Darko Milanic after just 32 days at the club. Even Brian...

A friend of mine once commented, ‘I just love watching goals being scored’. A simple pleasure, it has to be said. Though in his way he was right; football would be a pretty joyless vocation if we didn’t see the ball disturb the net with at least a degree...