There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, like the fact that being lucky will always trump being smart. And my dear readers, my luck seems to be running thin. There was some decent football…
Runners-up to PSV last season, Ajax have taken this campaign by the scruff of the neck with a fabulous unbeaten start to the 2015/16 Eredivisie. The current Dutch Premiership champions fell to an uncharacteristic defeat to Heracles last week,…
Dortmund’s electric start to the season is the best in the 53-year history of the Bundesliga. Life is peachy under coach Thomas Tuchel, as the Westphalian club have collected a maximum twelve points from their outings, scoring fifteen and…
Liverpool will win nothing this season. Doomed to another year of hopes, dreams and failure. The Brendan Rodgers era of deluded importance is coming to an end. Liverpool are no longer a big club. They’ve only been in the…
Another week, another bad beat to add to the catalogue. That’s not to say the week wasn’t successful – I enjoyed an 80% strike rate with my Euro predictions. However, things could’ve been so much better. Were it not…
Dortmund and Bayern Munich have made perfect starts to the 2015 Bundesliga campaign. The entrenched German giants look the teams to beat this season, which is no change to the status quo for the Bavarians. Dortmund have experienced a…
Just as the European season gets into some sort of rhythm, the international break comes along to screw everything up. Regulars to this column will know that I’m no fan of international football, but placing the new season’s first…
The second round of qualification matches for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations is one of many international causes to disrupt club football worldwide this weekend. The tension between domestic and international managers becomes a talking point, especially given…
There’s hardly a dull moment to blemish the German opening weekends...and that statement is made with no less than four 1-1 draws occurring last time out. Dortmund’s rise from the ashes of last season continued with a 4-0 thrashing…
It’s early season yet, but I’ll be damned if I’ve seen a better start than the one Man City are currently enjoying. Three matches, eight goals scored and none conceded. Not half bad. Including their form at the tail-end…