Writing about Richarlison’s big-money move to Everton now, a week since news broke of an impending deal on Friday evening, seems almost outdated. Competitive football is still half a month away, and the young Brazilian has hardly had a chance to inspect the toilets at Finch Farm, but modern footballing guidelines state that transfers must […]
Craig Cathcart glided down the steep hill, mountain bike rattling beneath him. Reflected in his sunglasses were the jagged peaks of the Alps, drenched in sun. He rolled to a stop alongside a reoccupied Troy Deeney and turned to see what was taking his attention. The laughing captain was enjoying a helmeted Jerome Sinclair cautiously […]
That’s it. It’s a wrap. You can all start spending your weekends on other things. At least the four weekends until the World Cup starts. If you happened to miss the final instalment of Watford’s season against Manchester United, it consisted of dominating for most of the game, having more shots, producing about ten underhit […]
What a bloody mess. Marco Silva has been sacked after 24 games at Watford, a week before the end of the transfer window and with the club peering over the edge of a precipitous fall back into the Championship. Things like this usually set off the usual spurts of football tribalism: ‘our player can’t be […]
Summertime and the living is easy. Football is back again and amidst a world full of toss, this meaningless game is once more giving us a chance to escape into a box of concrete and forget our pains. We drew 3-3 with Liverpool. And there were three things therein that particularly pleased me: When Jose […]
