He was booed from the moment he was subbed on and every second he was on the ball Samuel Umtiti‘s return to the Barcelona fold in yesterday’s Joan Camper Trophy final against Juventus, after yet another season and around just a dozen or so appearances, was one to forget – so much so that he […]

5 years ago

Van Dijk could finally make his first-team return after almost a year It’s fair to say that Liverpool‘s recent resurgence would not have happened without two things: Jurgen Klopp and Virgil Van Dijk. They then had to play the majority of last season without one of those and they still managed to come third. However, […]

5 years ago

In case you’re out of practise (or just weird enough to watch with a healthy indifference), here are the basic tenets of reading far too much into pre-season.

7 years ago

This is not a drill

8 years ago

Not what he needed after the Champions League final

8 years ago

Pre-season can be a dull time for football fans, especially when there’s no World Cup or European Championship to keep things ticking along. As the dying embers of the previous campaign drift further away, we tend to fall into the same patterns to while away those long summer days. Here are just a few of the […]

11 years ago