Contemplating his side’s Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City last season, Jurgen Klopp said that to sit back and look to absorb pressure…
What is football for? Why do people go, week in and week out, to watch teams that very rarely come close to achieving anything close to their ambitions, and at…
In prospect, six weeks ago, in that golden age when Manchester United did not have a permanent manager, the derby looked like being the biggest obstacle…
So that is the team Liverpool are banking on to win the title? There could have been little pleasure for Liverpool fans in watching Manchester United being…
The Champions League final this year will be the eighth in a row without Pep Guardiola, which perhaps should not feel as extraordinary as it does. This is,…
One of the hallmarks of great drama is when a previously unheralded character turns out to have a significant impact on the denouement that, in hindsight,…
So Manchester United need a 2-1 win at the Camp Nou. Can anybody think of a time when they have done that? Yes, you at the back there – baby-faced man in the…
Eight years ago Pepe was sent off and Lionel Messi scored two goals, one of them brilliant, as Barcelona beat Real Madrid in the semi-final of the Champions…
