1. World Football: Ranking the 25 Worst 'Tackles' of All Time (With Video)

    Fundamentally football is down to skill, talent and ability. Yet there is an far more abhorrent practice that underpins the essence of the game itself...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 5,343 reads 10 comments

  2. World Transfer Window: Ranking the Best January Deals

    Monday 31 st January 2011: The day football defied the credit crunch to create the best example of monetary lunacy we will in all likelihood ever bear witness too. 100 million, spent in a day...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 708 reads 11 comments

  3. 'A Scotsman Called McTavish' and Other Quotes: The Gospel of Ian Holloway

    Too often in life and increasingly in football people take themselves too seriously. Every once in a while an odd-ball comes along to buck the trend, to rebel against the natural order...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 723 reads 7 comments

  4. What the 1999 Champions League Final Meant to One 8 Year Old

    “Can Man United score? They always score.” The prophet foresaw the inevitable as fate contrived to give my 8-year-old self an insight into the unbridled joy of sporting perfection...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 599 reads 2 comments

  5. Soccer: Diego Maradona, Pele and The Greatest Footballers From A To Z

    The list of the world's greatest footballers is a well-trodden path. The problem with such assessment is it is solely based on one’s subjective opinion and is therefore as conclusive as asking Emmeline Pankhurst to judge "The Apprentice"...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 2,801 reads 45 comments

  6. Juan Carlos Chera: The Boy from Brazil That Football Forgot

    I remember it clearly. It was about three years ago whilst, as I am accustomed to do, I was browsing through the annuls of YouTube that I first heard the name...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 2,554 reads 13 comments

  7. 'Tis the Season To Be an Underdog: Lille, Dortmund, Napoli, Blackpool, Man Utd.

    Expectations are funny things; either you are expected to do well or you not. At the start of each football season betting men place their bets based on these expectations...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 410 reads 2 comments

  8. Roy Keane: Why the Great Player Will Never Be a Great Manager

    Roy Keane is as he has always been; an individual that seemingly courts controversy. This was ok when he was a player (I use the term ok loosely as it is obviously not ‘ok’ ...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 440 reads 2 comments

  9. The Future Premiership: Each EPL Club's Top British Youth Prospect Under 21

    Some club's have it abundance, some it appears have very little. Yet in the wake of the national football teams seemingly genetic predilection for failure, i feel now is as good a time as any to look for the future...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 2,916 reads 16 comments

  10. Chris-Is at Newcastle? Hughton Fired In Farcical Scenes. Which EPL Boss Is Next?

    Every year it’s the same; teams start, full of optimism, ready to reap the fruit of the managers seeds and then things go awry. Loses here, dropped points there, a sense of desperation sets in: “things have to change”...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 312 reads 10 comments

  11. Premier League Needs You: 11 Young Players Who Could Light Up the Prem

    What really is the best league in the world? Spain? England? Italy? Germany? To be honest i don't really know. My head says Spain but my heart says England and i prefer my heart...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 4,325 reads 32 comments

  12. Dimitar Berbatov: Seriously, Is He Any Good for Manchester United?

    I hate Marmite, though many of my friends love it. Dimitar Berbatov, to me, is Marmite in all but the jar. An outrageously gifted footballer on the one hand, and a lethargic waste of valuable grass on the other...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 1,567 reads 30 comments

  13. The Taming Of Big Andy and How Fabio Capello Failed The Newcastle Man

    There was something that just didn’t sit right watching England’s hirsute Neanderthal-esque No. 9 take to the pitch at Wembley last week...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 206 reads 3 comments

  14. Inter Milan's Gravest Error: The Rafa Benitez Story

    Rafael Benitez Maudes was born on April 18, 1960, in the suburbs of Madrid. He was a member of the Real Madrid youth system, before failing to make the grade and plying his trade as a player in the lower Spanish leagues—unspectacular...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 1,419 reads 14 comments

  15. The England Effect; English Football Teams' History Of Failure.

    I would call myself an objectivist, a realist, one in tune with the pigments of reality. I have a finger on the pulse of society. Yet, on Wednesday, I realised that for football it’s different...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 264 reads 0 comments

  16. The Theatre Of Sand: The Rise and Rise Of Blackpool FC.

    To use a synonym from the beaches for which it is famed, if Manchester United and Chelsea were high-rise sand palaces, Blackpool would be a small turret, dented slightly by the unwanted intervention of a stray beach ball...

    Greg Lott Written by Greg Lott about over 2 years ago 512 reads 0 comments