Sunday’s fixture between Arsenal and Manchester United sees Robin van Persie return to the Emirates Stadium for the first time since he left for Old Trafford last summer. The Dutchman, adored by Arsenal fans for years, scored 30 goals for the Gunners last season and deservingly won the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Player of the Year. [...]
Eden Hazard Vs Shinji Kagawa has been the topic of a lot of fans over the last week, both arrived in the English Premier League during the summer 2012 transfer window, but until this season, their respective footballing paths had never crossed. Hazard, born in Belgium, found his way to France and entered the LOSC Lille [...]
In the 21st century the media is more prevalent than ever. There’s the traditional broadsheets of course, but now there are blogs, fanzines, television shows from every country, and pundits. Everybody’s a pundit. Of course in the 21st century information is also more readily accessible than ever before, which means that theoretically, all this conjecture [...]
Sir Alex Ferguson has completed the signing of Shinji Kagawa and the Japanese international has officially joined the stable of premier attacking options at Old Trafford. Our own @RedMancunia touched briefly on the quality of Manchester United’s wingers as compared to the rest of the league in his post here, and the addition of Kagawa [...]
Introducing Analytics Football Analytics is slowly but surely gaining its position as a performance analysis tool for football, with its success from major American Sports. It is so new only 6 to 7 clubs use it in the Premier League, whilst there is a similar trend in occurring in the top leagues in Europe. Over [...]
With Manchester City being held to a one all draw by Stoke, Manchester United had the chance to open up a 3 point gap at the top of the table. Playing at Old Trafford against an out of form Fulham side, United were expected to take all three points. Shaky Start For the first twenty-five minutes the home [...]
Following the debacle that was the defeat to Wigan, Liverpool fans have started to point their finger at a new target: Pepe Reina. A few of them saying: he’s not been making as many saves or doesn’t look as though he’s trying or he can’t save penalties anymore. Liverpool’s slump shouldn’t rest solely on the [...]
Antonio Valencia had a timid start to the 2011/12 season. It looked as though he lacked confidence, wasn’t trying to take on players and wasn’t creating any chances either. Vikesh Chevli, one of our Manchester United writers and also known on Twitter as @RedMancunia, wrote an interesting article about Valencia on this very site with [...]