All posts by Alex Morgan

  • MOTD: Leicester City 1-0 Southampton

    Leicester City’s great escape from Premier League relegation began a year ago this weekend and ever since, they have kept running. Just like Forrest Gump, as Foxes’ boss Claudio Ranieri once coined. They made another crucial step...

    • Posted April 3, 2016
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  • MOTD: Liverpool 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham Hotspur missed a vital opportunity to put pressure on Premier League leaders Leicester City with a 1-1 draw against Liverpool.  Mauricio Pochettino’s men came back from behind to snatch a point at Anfield courtesy of a...

    • Posted April 2, 2016
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  • The top ten April Fools’ Day pranks in football

    It’s April Fools’ Day in football and the game for the best prank is well afoot. We’ve compiled the top ten April Fool’s Day pranks in football, 2016 edition. 1. Dancing with the Sporting Kansas City Stars...

    • Posted April 1, 2016
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  • Madrid looking beyond El Clasico to a summer of change

    From across the pond, it’s easy to tell when summer is just around the corner based on European soccer. The days get longer, clubs announce their far-flung preseason tours and naturally, the rumors circling Real Madrid’s transfer...

    • Posted March 31, 2016
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  • Defending champions Spain have much to prove heading into Euros

    The Spanish national team are having another identity crisis. Two unfulfilling draws against Italy and Romania deflated any previous momentum the defending champions had heading into Euro 2016 this summer. They were flat, uninspiring and blunt up...

    • Posted March 30, 2016
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  • Jack Wilshere again the missing man as other England youth shine

    Jack Wilshere was always the exception. The past three or four years of his young playing career have been wedged between a myriad of injuries that have plagued his fitness and the hopes of the England national...

    • Posted March 29, 2016
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  • The biggest questions facing Guardiola at Manchester City

    Being the richest football club in the world is far from being the best or most talented team, a platitude to which Manchester City can attest.  Their inconsistency year over year is a consequence of their erratic...

    • Posted March 28, 2016
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  • Lots to celebrate for West Ham in Noble testimony

    Mark Noble wanted to make tickets to his West Ham United testimonial match just £20 so they could be more accessible to young Hammers fans, as he himself once was.  He got tickets to his first game...

    • Posted March 27, 2016
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  • Tottenham Hotspur trio inspire England comeback win over Germany

    Two-and-a-half years ago, England were unceremoniously defeated 1-0 by Germany at Wembley Stadium.  It was a chilly November evening in London (as most are), as Roy Hodgson began the process of winnowing down his World Cup 2014...

    • Posted March 26, 2016
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  • Discontent with Klinsmann at all-time high following US loss to Guatemala

    This year alone, Jurgen Klinsmann has had a month-long January training camp and two international friendlies to prepare for a seemingly routine World Cup Qualifying match with Guatemala, a team ranked two places behind Faroe Islands in...

    • Posted March 25, 2016
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