‘Enough is enough’? You’re damn right it is
To ask football fans to pay £77 to watch a match is insulting. Enough is enough.
John Nicholson
So clubs want less football and more money?
“The last thing they want is another game,” is a phrase we hear all the time. What’s wrong with football?
Looking at Ranieri’s lovely face and dreaming…
Talking of faces, Johnny is lucky to have one at all after predicting Leicester’s relegation back in 2004.
Sit down, stand up: Does it actually matter?
Louis van Gaal sits while Jurgen Klopp leaps. Does standing up earn you a lot more patience?
Dear Pep…come and have a go at United
Take over at Man City and it will be a piece of p***; take over at Man United if you dare…
No sympathy here for ‘minority’ Brits
There are 18 foreign managers working in English league football. Discrimination against Brits? Shush.
Football is on the verge of revolution. Thank f**k
Is this season proof that football is on the brink of a revolution? Money is becoming less and less important…
Disproving the myth of the ‘English 4-4-2’
The 4-4-2: An old-fashioned English formation? Nope. Leicester and Watford prove the foreigns master it.
Ryan Giggs: Either implicated or irrelevant
Either way he has done nothing to suggest he should replace Louis van Gaal at Manchester United.
Football on TV: Tony Gale
John Nicholson flicks his elbows up and down and makes that funny oi-oi noise Londoners of a certain breed make. He’s watching Tony Gale.
The Premier League don’t want this…do you?
The best league in the world? Only because it’s everything the big clubs don’t want it to be…
Manchester United: A sexless long-term relationship
Van Gaal’s United feels like a poor tribute act, a long-term relationship without sex. We miss Fergie.
Death to ‘death by football’ bores…
Liverpool’s 43% possession proves the possession fascists’ wisdom was twisted all along.
Have we finally stopped blaming the manager?
After years of England bosses being hounded out, has there been a sea change?
We’re consumers; we can leave early…
It’s just like leaving half your dessert, right? Or at least that’s what they have made us think.
Mourinho: Master manipulator, or are press too soft?
‘Why doesn’t someone say “Not this pathetic act again, Jose. Is this the best you’ve got?’ asks John Nic.
Proper Football Men can be sh*t too…
Tim Sherwood was not sacked because he was English, but because he was really sodding awful.
Steve McClaren: National Express coach driver
It doesn’t matter how well Newcastle do; you can’t convince our Johnny that he has a clue what he’s doing.
John Nicholson: Klopp has his unrealistic pedestal
Our Johnny worries that Jurgen Klopp is already being set up to fall short…
Is cheering on the foreign teams wrong..?
John Nicholson found himself cheering on Porto and Olympiacos on Tuesday evening. Is that wrong? Or is it a natural reaction to the Premier League’s marketing and PR bubble…
Want the money? Take the anonymous flak
Brendan Rodgers thinks people are out to get him, while Tim Sherwood is bemoaning criticism from ‘faceless people’. You’re the entertainment; get used to it. With post-match press conferences, once…
Diego Costa: The last of the utter sods
Almost nobody plays like Diego Costa. If you like dirty, physically aggressive nastiness, you’ll be dining off meagre rations in the 2015 Premier League.