This week the Champions League season got underway and on Wednesday night Manchester City dismantled RB Leipzig in a 6-3 win.  Despite Christopher Nkuku bagging himself a hat-trick, it wasn’t even close to being enough to get anything from the game as Pep Guardiola’s City ran riot against the Germans.    Typically in a piece…

For many, supporting a football club can feel like being on a rollercoaster, with endless twists and turns and plenty of fun along the way. But at Everton, it feels more like a doom-laden, ‘gritty realism’ horror movie, with the latest change of narrative dividing its loyal fan base six ways from Sunday.   Over…

As the club season gets underway and we enjoy the madcap lunacy that is Serie A with each passing game, Sunday brought us one of the first ‘big seven’ clashes of the season. Lazio’s Maurizio Sarri-balling apostles came up against an exciting Milan team whose progress under Stefano Pioli can’t help but be admired.  …

As Everton meandered to another mid-table finish in Carlo Ancelotti’s first full season, something which has become more common than not in recent years, it suffices to say Everton fans looked ahead to the summer transfer window wondering what direction Ancelotti and Marcel Brands would take Everton’s squad, some with trepidation considering the scattergun recruitment…

With the Premier League set to return as the first international break of the season comes to an end, Nuno Espírito Santo’s Tottenham comfortably sit at the top of the league with nine well-deserved points. We take a look at Tottenham’s new shape under the Portuguese boss.   New manager Nuno walked into a very…

After returning to the Premier League for the first time in 16 years, Leeds United enjoyed a superb campaign under Marcelo Bielsa, finishing 9th in the table. However, the following season has started on a bitter note as Leeds lost four preseason friendlies — including a 0-4 thrashing against Ajax — drew two friendlies, and…

Lazio kicked off the Maurizio Sarri era with a 3-1 win against newly promoted Empoli, where Sarri coached from 2012 to 2015 and led to promotion. Their final match before September’s international break saw them host Spezia, coached by Thiago Motta following Vincenzo Italiano’s departure to Fiorentina in the summer.   Whilst Spezia started in…

Jürgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel share remarkably similar managerial paths. Both making their name under Bundesliga clubs Mainz and Borussia Dortmund, Tuchel succeeding Klopp both times displaying he was never in the shadow of his predecessor.    Recognised for their fluid, innovative football epitomising the plethora of thriving German managers who have revolutionised the game…

On Saturday afternoon Liverpool and Chelsea faced off in this season’s first contest between two early title favourites. The first half of the match was exhilarating with both teams pressing aggressively and transitioning quickly in attack, but as so often is the case, the flow of the game completely changed as a result of a…

The departure of Pitso Mosimane from Mamelodi Sundowns dominated the build-up to the 2020/21 DSTV Premiership, as the reigning champions had to prepare for life without the stewardship of arguably the greatest manager in the club’s history.    Forward came co-head coaches Manqoba Mnqithi, Rulani Mokwena and senior coach Steve Komphela; the trio took over…