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“The objective is to move the opponent, not the ball.” Adherents to the rather loaded term of positional play perceive football to be a...

On Sunday, Thomas Tuchel and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer faced off for the first time in the Premier League after several tactical battles in...

When Alex Telles signed for Manchester United in October, many fans thought he did so as a replacement for Luke Shaw. The English...

José Mourinho’s first first full season as Spurs coach hasn’t gone precisely to plan thus far. After guiding the team to sixth-place...

There is a line in Julian Barnes’s masterpiece The Noise of Time, a novel about the splendid Russian-Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich,...

It would appear that City Football Group are trying to take over the world. From a volcano hideout somewhere on a remote island Dr. Evil...

“I’m an absolute dinosaur. But what I am, I’m a winner” was Sir Alex Ferguson’s words on Manchester United’s end of the season awards...

Pep Guardiola earned the first win of his Premier League career against Chelsea as his well-drilled Manchester City managed to break...

The ever-running transfer story of the summer finally reached its conclusion on Monday night as Manchester United announced the signing...

While the season as a whole for Manchester United has been a definite disappointment, the emergence of both homegrown and purchased young...

Norwich City have made a quietly efficient start to the Premier League season on their return to the top flight. Stability and...

Manchester United have started the season very well. Premier League wins against Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa was followed up with a...

Manchester United have been quite heavily criticized, and rightly so, for their boring style of play over the last two months. Louis van...

Louis van Gaal was very active in the last week of the transfer window and signed Àngel Di Maria, Daley Blind and Radamel Falcao. Three...

The Premier League returns on Saturday and looks set to be more competitive than ever. New managers at Manchester United and Tottenham...

On Monday afternoon the news broke on twitter. Ryan Giggs, Manchester Uniteds record-appearance maker, announced his retirement from...

In part 1, I discussed the manager and his players. Part 2 is an in-depth analysis on the tactics Mauricio Pochettino deploys. Formation ...

In the spring of 2011, Southampton FC were promoted from League One to the Championship under the leadership of Nigel Adkins. A year...