Great watch: Sky Sports meet ‘The Beast’ Adebayo Akinfenwa
Despite spending most of his time lower down the English football pyramid, AFC Wimbledon’s Adebayo Akinfenwa is fairly well known purely because of his sheer size and unique build for a footballer. He’s an inspirational char
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard: the elephant in the room
A “cornucopia of catastrophes” heads the list of catchy, alliterative phrases that came to mind when describing the exploits of The Reds thus far this campaign. These poor performances have been well documented by p
Klaas Jan Huntelaar’s contender for miss of the season
During Mexico’s 3-2 friendly win over the Netherlands on Wednesday evening, a supposed cool finisher in Klaas Jan Huntelaar missed an absolute sitter in front of a thoroughly worried Dutch crowd following their abysmal star
The race for Championship promotion
The Championship is probably one of the most competitive leagues in the world, with it being virtually impossible to predict who’ll get promoted to the promised land of the Premier League come the end of the season. Here
Mike Bassett: Interim Manager trailer
The follow up to classic football film Mike Bassett: England Manager is expected in February 2016 and will be part-funded by crowd-funding site Kickstarter. The news has been met with huge positivity in the UK after the first o
Can Southampton maintain their top four position?
Of the two Dutch managers in the Barclays Premier League, few would have said from the beginning of the season that Southampton’s Ronald Koeman would be looking down on his more experienced counterpart, Loui
Where has it all gone wrong at Manchester City?
Manuel Pellegrini has one of the most lucrative and sought after managerial jobs in world football at Manchester City, and after winning two trophies in his first year, he looked the real deal. However, this season he’s findin
Chelsea’s Petr Cech covers ‘Walk’ by Foo Fighters on the drums
Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech is a keen musician and seems to have a pretty decent setup in his London home. Jamming on his drums probably helps ease some of the stress surrounding his Chelsea career at the mo
Arsenal, Arsene Wenger and his tactics
There’s been a slight tactical shift in the way Arsenal have been set up this season, and it may go some way to explain the difficulties Arsenal have experienced. The shift has been from the attacking 4-2-3-1 formation to the m
Everton’s Leon Osman raps ‘Fresh Prince’ at testimonial dinner
In order to mark 14 years’ faithful service to Everton, the club laid on a special dinner for their talismanic midfielder Leon Osman at the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool on Saturday night, in addition to the testimonial match he had …
Ex-Manchester United goalkeeper Van der Sar chants with Ajax ultras
As a player, Edwin Van der Sar was always considered one of the nicer guys in football. He’s a calm, intelligent man who won many friends during his playing days. Now at Ajax as their marketing director, the Dutch giant …
The struggle to attend regular Premier League football at Chelsea
‘Take a look around you next time: how many pensioners do you see? There are also fewer children than at our rivals. Lack of youth development does not only apply to the playing side. Add to these groups the fans …
Harry the Parrot loves singing Manchester City songs
Ahead of the Manchester derby on Sunday, Sky Sports News have been running stories on it throughout the week. Despite their occasionally tiresome overhyping of such games, Sky have produced the goods on this l
Why Barcelona boss Luis Enrique got it wrong in the Clásico
The Clásico is a game that the whole world watches and Spain comes to a standstill for the most important game of the calendar year. Messi and Ronaldo face off, each eager to outwit the other. For the managers, le
Beautiful: New York Red Bulls help fulfil dreams of ill five-year old
Five-year-old Irelyn Maloney was born with a rare genetic disorder called Familial Mediterranean fever, which has necessitated 40 hospital stays and six surgeries in her brief life to date. It also prevents the football mad you