Tim Palmer guides you through the last season handing out a string of awards as he reviews the tactical side of the game. Player, team, partnership and manager of the season are all in here along with a few others…
Newcastle are lacking a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’
Newcastle are the form team in the race for the Champions League place. Ryan Keaney just can’t see them doing it, although he doesn’t know why…
Ben Arfa’s road to recovery ends on Newcastle’s highway
There are similarities in the recent histories of Newcastle United and Hatem Ben Arfa. Both had troubling years in 2009 but as Tim Palmer explains, with 2012 cranking into gear they are now nicely complimenting each other…
Episode 27 – It’s all Gareth Bale’s fault
This week on the podcast, Ryan Keaney, Simon Furnivall and Andy Hunter were joined by Down in the Box’s Barry Landy to discuss the top and bottom of the Premier League.
Best transfers of the January window
The January 2012 transfer window closed with something close to a whimper on Tuesday night after a fair from exciting month. There weren’t the multi-million pound deals of previous months; but there were a few interesting moves. We got some of The Football Project writers together and asked them to pick out what they considered to be the best piece of business done during the window. Thankfully everyone picked out different players…
Episode 20 – Jonny Evans is sh!t
We’re back for another week and we are delighted to have Dave Hartrick joining Ryan Keaney, Simon Furnivall and Andy Hunter.
2012 – The year these guys shine
2011 was an important year for many players. Gareth Bale cemented himself as a regular performer in the Premier League amongst others. To start 2012, we asked Gary Linton to ear-mark the players who will set the English top flight alight in the next twelve months…
Five things the weekend taught us
The title race is back on At first it looked a two-horse race between the Manchester sides, then it looked as though it could be Manchester City’s to throw away. Okay, they haven’t quite done that yet but things are certainly looking a lot closer at the top of the Premier League table. A win for Manchester United, followed by a Monday night win for Chelsea over City, mean the top four all have in excess of 30 points. City still have a bit of a gap – two points over United, seven over Chelsea and Tottenham, but it’s far
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Five things the weekend taught us
Newcastle’s defence has disappeared They’re currently sitting in sixth place, and have come through a very tough run of games looking better than respectable. However, that could all be about to change for Newcastle United. They have big problems at the back, where they had looked so strong and assured for much of their fine run. Fabricio Coloccini is set to miss the busy Christmas period, and even worse; Steven Taylor is likely to miss the rest of the season with a horrendous injury. Questions were initially asked for their overall squad depth and now those theories will be put
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Five things the weekend taught us
The title sort of gives this away, so no introduction is needed. Which is a bit unfortunate really, I do like a good introduction. Anyway, without any further ado, here are five things we, or at least James Hunt, learned from this weekend of Premier League football…
