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.

Where will it all end?

Despite some scintillating football, two English teams in the Champions League Final and the closest run-in to a league title in 40 years, many English football puritans have been left with a bad taste in their mouths this season. At the heart of this is rising ticket prices despite the huge investments in the game along with foreign owners who seem capable only of making a mess out of a stable environment.

The Madness Of Manchester City

The dangers presented by foreign owners are becoming increasingly apparent.
Liverpool’s American owners have caused a normally stable club to fall into disrepute and an uncertain future. Now Manchester City’s Thai owner has raised the stakes further by opting to rid of coach Sven-Göran Eriksson despite consensus that the Swede was a great success in his […]

If Youth Only Knew: If Age Only Could

“We’ve never won a national trophy and yet we have produced more first-team players than any other academy,” says a proud Jim Cassell, the academy director at Manchester City. “We sacrifice our teams sometimes because the priority is the development of individuals. If after 10 years we had four FA Youth Cups but no players, […]

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 – […]