Five… Finest Premier League Matches Of The Season

It has been a terrific year of Premier League football.

A thrilling title race and a ferocious battle to avoid the drop kept onlookers fascinated until the final minutes of the campaign. And in the midst of all the excitement came a host of high-scoring, memorable matches. Footballing World pick out the top five from the 2007/08 season.

Did O’Leary do a better job than O’Neill?

Prior to the win over Bolton on Saturday and according to Gabriele Marcotti from The Times’ The Game podcast, Martin O’Neill had been in charge for seventy-seven matches and had gained 108 points.
He also compared this to David O’Leary’s managerial reign during the same number of games and Martin O’Neill, according to Marcotti, comes out […]

The big four’s stranglehold will loosen

In 10 years time the monopoly of English Football held recently by Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool will be over. This will not happen overnight but gradually, season-by-season, other ‘big’ clubs will be challenging for domestic honours. Money continues to flood into the game and worldwide popularity for the Premiership grows each year – […]

Unsung Heroes: Martin Laursen

#2: Martin Laursen, Aston Villa
Apps: 57; Goals: 7
Most football fans assumed that Aston Villa would become a stronger team when Martin O’Neill took charge of the club in August 2006. His track record spoke for itself and his motivational skills seemed a perfect tonic for this depressed Midlands giant. In short, he was exactly what […]

Five Things: Defending, Conceding, Scoring, Superstars, Refereeing

1. Liverpool’s dead ball deficiencies
While Aston Villa are the masters of scoring from dead ball situations, Liverpool are the worst at defending them. 14 of the 20 goals conceded by Rafa Benítez’s side have derived from set-piece situations, a defensive problem that has been a recurrent worry through the season and continued at Bolton on […]