The season is over and for the next three months we now have to endure a long agonising summer of football rumour and speculation. No matter what team you support, feelings are generally the same please God let us keep our best players and sign some good new ones.  For the two northeast clubs in the Premier League, Newcastle and Sunderland, the next two months holds particular importance and will shape the clubs not just next season but also in [...]

As I started writing this article, Chelsea had just sacked one of the most successful managers in European club football over the past decade. This might be the Chelsea the way of doing things but it is certainly not the Arsenal way, they are more like the Catholic Church. Change doesn’t come easy to them, they think in terms of decades not days and weeks. For many this is the right approach to running a  football club, after all look [...]