With the high probability of Andre Villas Boas becoming the new Tottenham Hotspur manager in the near future, TPiMBW has taken an objective step back from his recent Chelsea venture to analyse just how Andre Villas Boas proposes that his teams play their football. English Premier League fans may be aware that he possesses facial hair styled [...]

With Chelsea winning the Champions League and the big spending that has come from it, you may forget one of Chelsea’s best performers at the back-end of last season. Chelsea have brought in a lot of attacking talent in midfield, giving a lot of options in the 3 of a 4-2-3-1, however being too attacking [...]

Brendan Rodgers is a man who has an appreciation of footballing perception and culture, regardless of its roots, a man who strives for perfection in the evolution of the game. The strategies of ‘Tiki-Taka’ and ‘totaal-voetbal’  form the basis of Brendan Rodgers’ modus operandi. For Rodgers the season of 2011/12 will be regarded as the [...]

Using the comments section below, please nominate a Premier League player from any squad to be included in our ‘Top 12th Man’ article which will be up later this week. The rules for the nomination are simple, though they’re not hard and fast: Player nominated must be from the current squad, and; Player must NOT [...]

When Andre Santos arrived from Fenerbahce on deadline day in August 2011, opinion was divided whether the left-back would prove to be a success or failure with Arsenal. The Brazilian has begun well, enduring himself to the Gunners faithful by scoring the equalizing second goal in the Gunners 5-3 beating of Chelsea in October. However, a majority of fans are [...]

Reading through a recent post published on EPL Index titled “Premier League 2011/12 – Top Creators & Their Positions”  the top 2 chance creators last season were David Silva and Juan Mata for Manchester City and Chelsea respectively. Indeed, over the course of Euro 2012, one talking point was Spain’s consistent use of 6 midfielders. [...]

Daniel Agger is a fantastic football player. Daniel Agger is slick and stylish on the ball. Daniel Agger, some say, is a modern-day Alan Hansen. But Daniel Agger gets injured, and gets injured a lot. The speculation is, Man City might be willing to pay £20 million plus for him. So the question is; does [...]

It’s been reported that Liverpool are very close to signing or having a fee agreed for Joe Allen so we thought an analysis comparing Joe to rival midfielders would be of interest. Joe Allen is a player that Brendon Rodgers knows very well after their time at Swansea however the reported agreement of not going [...]