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Charge Your Glasses – UEFA Champions League semi-final

May 04, 2022 8 min read

A departure for this week’s Charge Your Glasses piece as the focus is not on a club or a meeting between two old foes, but on a fixture in every football season: the UEFA Champions League semi-final.

Big Games – week commencing May 2

May 03, 2022 4 min read

This week sees the second leg of the semi-finals of European competition, which is also the subject of Wednesday’s piece on this site. Looking at the history of the game which decides the finalists, there have been plenty of exciting and invigorating matches and Manchester City have added their name to the rollcall.

Charge Your Glasses: Sunderland

April 27, 2022 6 min read

They are called the Mackems because ‘we mack ‘em and you tack ‘em’ was a famous phrase when Sunderland was a shipbuilding city. Today, the football team can be found in the third tier of English football and on Netflix too.

Big Games – week commencing April 25

April 25, 2022 4 min read

It’s another European week, with the first leg of the semi-finals of the three main continental tournaments. Incredibly, though unsurprisingly, British clubs are represented in all three of them.

Charge Your Glasses: Arsenal v Man Utd

April 19, 2022 5 min read

For at least a decade, the blockbuster fixture in the division pitted Arsenal against Manchester United. In 1996, Arsène Wenger was appointed as manager of his near namesake and within 18 months had turned the club around to such an extent that he won both the Premier League and the FA Cup.

Big Games – week commencing April 18

April 18, 2022 3 min read

The Battle of Merseyside is one of four games to take place on Sunday along with Brighton v Southampton, Burnley v Wolves and Chelsea v West Ham

Charge Your Glasses: Spurs v Brighton

April 13, 2022 4 min read

Brighton have been a Premier League team since 2017, which means their meeting with Spurs will be their tenth in five years. The first, just before Christmas 2017, ended 2-0 to Spurs, with the return fixture a 1-1 draw.

Big Games – week commencing April 11 2022

April 10, 2022 4 min read

Imagine if after 38 games of the Premier League season there was a sort of play-off between the top six and the bottom six and after five more games we would find out if Norwich really did get relegated or whether the chasing pack could catch Liverpool and Manchester City.

Charge Your Glasses: Forest v Birmingham

April 06, 2022 5 min read

Away from London and the north-west, it can be argued that the Midlands is the other great hotbed of English football. As part of his series of books on English football’s ‘Turf Wars’

Big Games – week commencing April 4 2022

April 04, 2022 4 min read

It’s a big week for the Arsenal, who have two winnable games as they chase down Chelsea in the quest for third place. They were helped massively by Brentford who beat their foes 4-1 on Saturday.

Charge Your Glasses – Rangers v Celtic

March 29, 2022 4 min read

Ask anyone in the world what the definitive fixture in Scottish football is and, with apologies to Hearts v Hibs, it’s the Glasgow derby. The latest edition happens this Sunday at noon, where Ibrox will once more host Celtic. The Hoops will return the favour on 17 April when the teams meet in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup.

Big Games – week commencing March 28 2022

March 28, 2022 5 min read

Squeeze-yer-bum time, or squeaky-bum time? Apparently the journalists who were at the press conference when these words were said took a vote and the latter took it five to four. Thus does Alex Ferguson’s term for the close season get wheeled out every springtime after the international break.

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