‘Waaaaaahhhhhhoooooohhhhhhuuurrrggghhh isn’t it all horrible!’. That’s the noise being made at the moment by Arsenal Football Club fans, the most brattish and entitled set of supporters in the country. Twenty consecutive top four finishes in the Premier League and an uninterrupted stream of appearances in the Champions League, Europe’s most prestigious club competition, two league and FA Cup doubles, three…
After masterminding Sunderland’s 2-2 draw at home to second-in-the-table Liverpool – a result which left the Black Cats seventeenth and still loitering with intent inside the relegation zone – manager David Moyes felt himself more than deserving of a little praise. Frolicking in the land of make believe, the usually despondent Scot said ‘I feel we weren’t too defensive today…
When so-called football supporters began throwing coins inside the Olympic Stadium on Wednesday, and one of those coins landed smack-dab in a baby’s mouth – present partly because she is her father’s progeny, but also because she longed for a precious glimpse of the arena that housed Olympic heroes from before she was born – and when the baby, the coin…
For the best part of twenty years Manchester United enjoyed an effective hegemony over the Premier League, as between 1993 and 2013 a glorified group of British youngsters, led by Alex Ferguson the red-nosed Scot, helped the side to a remarkable thirteen league titles. For much of the past decade Manchester United’s main rivals at the top of the Premier…
