Co-editor of BackPageFootball.com. Writes mostly on Premier League and A-League with contributions to other sites including TheFootballSack, InBedWithMaradona and Bloomberg's BSports. Has featured on ...

This part will focus on club competitions in Europe and the rest of the world – after which, there’ll be one more piece to come focusing on the rest of the Millennium season, in particular the last ...

2025 brings us another new chapter in the footballing universe: the birth of the new FIFA Club World Cup. The Club World Cup has been a staple of the footballing calendar since 2000 (or 1960 if you ...

Having only qualified for one World Cup (France 1998), considering the immense talent in their ranks, Jamaica are seen as serial underachievers. Current players include Michail Antonio, Bobby ...

In 2016, I submitted an article to a peer reviewed journal and the editor called me immediately after he’d read it. He spoke in glowing terms about the balance of academic support and real life test ...

After almost a century of existence, by the mid 1980s and into the early 1990s, football was in crisis. After the golden post-war era of the 1950s and 60s, the game started to enter a decline in the ...

Gone was the efficient but uninspiring Cláudio Coutinho, the coach who had led Brazil four years previously where suspicious circumstances saw them resigned to third place following Argentina’s ...

Coming from Rayo Vallecano and in the midst of unrest on the south coast, former right-back Andoni Iraola has not only steered them well clear of the relegation zone, he has made Bournemouth one of ...

Gone are the days when April Fools’ Day involved telling a really crappy joke and punching your mate on the arm when they fell hook, line and sinker for whatever yarn you had just spun. The internet ...

The Irish footballing revolution which is currently being spearheaded by Stephen Kenny, only the second manager to take the Republic of Ireland hotseat having previously coached in the League of ...

The change was evident as early as July, when the first qualifying round of the 1997/98 Champions League was played. It was the first time that a second qualifying round was introduced for this ...

During the first three seasons that I’ve covered so far, there were a few developments that were bubbling under the surface, all to spill out in the summer of 1992. The first, and I did touch on it ...