Neil Warnock may be gone, but where are the young English managers to replace him?

I remember exactly where I was when I first realised that I liked Neil Warnock. It was a couple of years ago, about Christmas-time. Barnsley were pla... Read more+

Why magical FA Cup 3rd Round weekend is still the perfect antidote to New Year blues

I don’t know about you, but each January I find myself poleaxed by the New Year Blues. This black dog, though, doesn’t arrive as soon as the Bank Holi... Read more+

Why does Steve Kean get so much grief when rock bottom Owen Coyle gets away with murder?

Throw a stone anywhere in the areas of Greater Manchester and Lancashire and chances are you’ll break a window at a professional football club. The N... Read more+

What's this strange, unfamiliar feeling? Oh yeah... it's Barnsley winning!

Is there anything quite like the terror and horror of supporting a team who are on a losing run? Actually, yes, there is: it is the terror and horror ... Read more+

Why no-one is laughing at the MLS anymore

In the past month two interesting developments occurred in the field of North American sport (or ‘sports’, as it is known on the continent to our left... Read more+

Why all these racism rows are driving me mad

This week’s column comes from the seat of an aeroplane some 35,000 in the air. By the time you read these words I will be in Sydney. If anyone fancies... Read more+

Why England should ignore FIFA and wear poppies on their shirts with pride

On Wednesday, the world’s most patronising man – who unfortunately just happens to be this nation’s Prime Minister – stood up in the House of Commons ... Read more+

Why some Football League clubs only have themselves to blame for dwindling attendances

last week I phoned the box office of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club with what I believed to be a routine enquiry. I am, I explained, a Barns... Read more+

Why anyone still clinging onto the 39th game proposal should heed lesson of NFL's London leg

Whenm in 2007, America’s National Football League first announced that it was coming to the United Kingdom, the league’s website was swamped with more... Read more+

Why Hope Powell should be managing the MENS' Olympics football team as well as the women's

This morning, while laying somewhere between consciousness and its opposite, I thought for a moment that I’d entered a Utopian Wonderland where all th... Read more+

How Ian Ayre wants to make the Premier League even less competitive

Isn’t it funny that this week the most popular man in certain parts of Manchester is a representative of Liverpool Football Club? On Wednesday Liverpo... Read more+

Why ongoing battle over Prem TV rights could be as entertaining as the matches themselves

Rupert Murdoch must surely be wondering whether at some point this year he smashed a mirror without noticing. But as the 80 year old Australian was fo... Read more+

Forget Fergie's bellyaching and Tevez's strops - fans are still football's most hard done by

What a week it’s been for seeing just how football has descended into a game populated by satanists and people who are no better than Nazis. Just for... Read more+

Why Swansea's first Premier win united a shattered community

Toward the end of the 1970s, Barnsley Football Club manager and former Leeds striker Allan Clarke took his squad of lower-league journeymen down the m... Read more+

Why footballers like Nathan Eccleston should be allowed to tweet whatever idiotic rubbish they want

Another week, another player makes the headlines from something he wrote on Twitter. Nathan Eccleston is not a name familiar to many fans outside of t... Read more+

Brazil vs Ghana was a thrilling clash of cultures and philosophies - just a shame none of it was on the pitch

If I were to describe the difference between a football match in the UK and a baseball or ice hockey game in the United States, the word I’d use is ‘e... Read more+

Their song claims no one likes them, but I think Millwall are magic

On Saturday afternoon the Millwall fans were singing their famous refrain. To the tune of Rod Stewart’s Sailing, 8000 or so South Londoners could be h... Read more+

Why the Carling Cup is still important to English football

At the time, it seemed that Birmingham City scoring a last-minute winner against Arsenal and lifting the Carling Cup was one of the great moments of l... Read more+

Despite new ownership uncertainty remains at Loftus Road

Like fans of so many football clubs, over the past 15 years Queen’s Park Rangers supporters have done their fair share of suffering. Since departing t... Read more+

Why antiquated anti-standing laws prove in football the customer is not king

The crowd behind each of the goals at Wembley Stadium on Sunday may have been divided into red and sky blue, but one thing at least did unite them: th... Read more+

Forget the Community Shield: for thousands of fans the curtain raises 24 hours before that

Sunday afternoon sees Wembley Stadium hosting the Community Shield, where 90,000 people – some of them Mancunians – will gather to witness Manchester ... Read more+

Who needs horror films when you've got the play-off finals?

In their quest to shock, filmmakers have mined new depths of depravity. We’ve had the Saw series. We’ve had the Hostel movies. We’ve had remakes of Th... Read more+