Yesterday we asked a string of footballing brains to predict who will win the Premier League. Today they are back to look at the bottom of the table and dish out their opinion on who will start next season in the Championship…
The top 5 January transfer deals
Much has been said of the dangers of signing players in the January transfer window. There are many who think it’s impossible to do a good deal in the winter. Is that the case though? Here Simon Furnivall looks at five of the best January deals done in the Premier League…
Five things the Christmas period taught us
Even over the Christmas period when James Hunt should be opening presents and eating way too much turkey, he makes sure to do some learning…
Five things the weekend taught us
James Hunt picked up five important lessons this weekend as he watched the Premier League…
Episode 16 – The Football Pubject? Never mind
Following the “success” of the first trip to record a show in the pub, we travelled back to a live recording but this time we got some more people along.
Too many draws may get you relegated
Alex McLeish has made a solid but unspectacular start to life as the Aston Villa manager. They have been hard to beat, but they have also found it hard to beat others. As Gary Linton discusses one point instead of three could come back to trouble them…
This week on The Football Project
Just in-case you were a little bit like our editor this week and lost a day thanks to a big hangover, we’ve only gone and recapped everything we did on The Football Project. Here our the last seven days in a single post, just in case you missed something.
The unwanted managers
They may not seem like the most obvious of bedfellows, a greying Londoner and a ginger Glaswegian, but Alan Pardew and Alex McLeish certainly have something in common. They are working at clubs where it was made clear that they are not welcome. Added to the already significant pressures of football management, they have to win over a fan base that wasn’t so much skeptical of their respective appointments as downright appalled. To put it bluntly, nobody wanted them. Yet relatively early into their reigns – only seven games have passed since McLeish replaced Gérard Houllier – they are already
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Panic
The Premier League season is just a week old but there are already teams bracing themselves for a tough season ahead. James Hunt looks at two teams who might just be panicking right now…
