All posts tagged "English Premier League"

  • MOTD: Liverpool 3-3 Arsenal

    Liverpool’s 3-3 draw with Arsenal doesn’t particularly favor either side.  Both managers will walk away from the match frustrated by the result, with each team having surrendered leads in a topsy-turvy, utterly compelling Premier League thriller.  Despite...

    • Posted January 13, 2016
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  • MOTD: Newcastle United 3-3 Manchester United

    Perhaps it’s the high and wide camera angle at St James’ Park or the helter skelter, end-to-end football on the pitch far below, but Newcastle United’s 3-3 draw with Manchester United bore a great semblance to a...

    • Posted January 12, 2016
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  • Pellegrini’s a dead man walking at Manchester City, but not finished just yet

    Ahead of Manchester City’s League Cup clash with Everton tomorrow, the Sky Blues’ boss Manuel Pellegrini was fielding questions on his job status and the pressure of his job. One recurring question regarded the pressure he’s currently...

    • Posted January 5, 2016
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  • Willian: Chelsea’s standout in an otherwise dismal season

    Willian Borges da Silva was nine during the 1998 World Cup. The Brazilian boy lived in Ribeirao Pires, a small city in Sao Paulo, where his father Severinho sold car parts and his mother also worked to...

    • Posted January 3, 2016
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  • MOTD: Watford 1-2 Manchester City

    It’s only January, but the prospects of a Premier League title are already looming over Manchester City’s season for all the wrong reasons. Only a late turnaround via two brilliant goals from Yaya Toure and Sergio Aguero...

    • Posted January 2, 2016
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  • Jurgen Klopp’s energy boosts Liverpool in narrow win

    Liverpool’s last match of 2015 ended in a lukewarm fashion that was emblematic of their campaign to date. The Reds took all three points from a trip to lowly Sunderland, but looked wholly unconvincing up front in...

    • Posted December 30, 2015
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  • What is Leicester City’s best target for 2016?

    I do wish Leicester City would prove the world wrong. It’s amazing to have witnessed a collection of up-and-comers rising from the Championship to take down the league’s rich kids one by one in an utterly captivating...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • MOTD: Manchester United 0-0 Chelsea

    Come the final whistle as Chelsea held onto a scoreless draw against Manchester United at Old Trafford, the home fans appeared unsure how to react. Some jeered, but there were no real acts of rebellion displayed against...

    • Posted December 28, 2015
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  • Is the end of Van Gaal’s reign at Manchester United imminent?

    Louis van Gaal has a very particular, Dutch sense of humor, combative and ever so slightly churlish to fit with his large, brazen personality. Back in the good ole days of his Manchester United tenure, say, last...

    • Posted December 27, 2015
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  • MOTD: Liverpool 1-0 Leicester City

    “There was a lot of electricity,” said Leicester City gaffer Claudio Ranieri after his team’s win over Chelsea a few weeks back. “Without electricity we are a normal team. With the fans, who pushed behind us, it...

    • Posted December 26, 2015
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