We are in the Mikel Arteta at Arsenal endgame; the process has failed
Mikel Arteta has been an undoubted success as Arsenal manager but this will not be allowed to rumble on forever. History tells us that.
Mikel Arteta has been an undoubted success as Arsenal manager but this will not be allowed to rumble on forever. History tells us that.
David de Gea really was phenomenal at Manchester United for a time. Aaron Ramsdale and Jordan Pickford have pulled off some belting saves before too.
Your football club’s manager is not your dad. Or a God. He’s just a bloke paid to put out some cones, says John Nicholson.
Mo Salah is the only man with two entries in John Nicholson’s list; he is very good at running very fast towards goal.
Johnny Nic has been banging the drum against VAR for years and thing are only getting worse. Erik ten Hag would probably join the chorus now.
A botched Arjen Robben knee slide, some Dortmund dancing and Michy Batshuayi smashing the ball into his own face are among the strangest goal celebrations.
Who are these shallow, stupid, not-to-say bigoted stories actually for? The UK press is now like a rundown hotel battling to stay open…
Football is boring for much of the time. The ball isn’t even in play for half an hour, so when an animal gets on the pitch it is worth the ...
Our John Nicholson believes that an England team should have an English manager, but not in a Daily Mail kind of way.
A tedious win against a minor side and a hapless loss. As ever, about par for England. These players are not world-beaters.
Virgil van Dijk, Phil Jones and James Tomkins surely have a group chat discussing the art of the last-ditch tackle. Spurs should probably try to avoid them.
Footballers are men and women, not chattels or assets, though they are treated as such by clubs and agents. It’s barbaric, says John Nicholson.
There is a dash of old-school British midfielder in there but some of the worst unpunished fouls ever were inflicted on Liverpool and Arsenal only recently.
‘Anyone can beat anyone else in the Premier League’ is fine marketing spiel but also provable nonsense when five teams have no wins from six games.
The woke police and Cristiano Ronaldo will say pitch invasion is not something which should be celebrated in football, but it has spawned some great moments.
In an all-too-real way, Chelsea might be an early example of the future. They are a batsh*t club but they are winning football matches.
We’ve all seen ‘what was he doing?’ own goals. Never mind the accidental tap-ins or headers, these are ten really big bodges. So there is some Phil Jones.
UEFA threatening the FA for trying to regulate football is absurd and John Nicholson is predictably angry.
As the Premier League returns, let’s look at some real moments of fury on the pitch. You don’t want to see that? Of course we do…
Our Johnny Nic is very, very angry at the confected anger about Lee Carsley not singing his allegiance to the royal family.
Trust Sky Sports to oversell a game and pretend it will be 90 minutes of action. Manchester United v Liverpool was a masterclass in selling sh*t as sugar.
John Nicholson takes us through some of the most bizarre mascots in Premier League history, with Arsenal loyalist Gunnersaurus quite inevitably featuring.
It’s fair to say the opening two weekends of the new Premier League season have not left Johnny Nic overly impressed with what he’s seen.
Our Johnny has written a book about his experiences of having a stroke. Football helped save him, hence why he rallies against the big money and corporate values.
Manchester United are represented twice on this list of the worst shots by an elite-level professional footballer ever. Cristiano Ronaldo cannot complain.
After the admin of clearing up precisely what constitutes a ‘proper volley’, it is time to marvel at Manchester United’s title winner and the Zidane swivel.
The tedious farce of VAR continues to soil an ever-dysfunctional and uninteresting product: The Premier League.
Premier League executives cannot maintain the idea of competition if the same teams finish in the same places. But removing those sides eliminates the money
Alan Pardew is the king of such nonsense but plenty of other managers have indulged in some bizarre behaviours, including Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola.
Football will be the Valium that calms this rage. That or the rain. But remember that none of this is new.