When I joined the Observer in 1990 the country was just rediscovering its love of the national game, thanks to Gazza’s tears and the BBC’s cultured coverage of…

Jürgen Klopp is too busy, bothered and generally bad-tempered these days to play silly games with selection just to prove a point. So it cannot be the case…

Gareth Barry has served all four of his senior professional clubs well, and it was no surprise that each of them posted tributes when he announced his…

Now the pandemic-interrupted 2019-20 season is over and a new one is ready to start, it is easy to believe some sort of normality is around the corner, that…

For a while now, it has been apparent the goals-against column in the Premier League table did not mean what it appeared to when considering Manchester City…

League tables may never lie, though everyone knows they can be economical with the truth. By Sunday evening we will have our final Premier League table, after…

The number of times Ole Gunnar Solskjær mentions the journey Manchester United have been on this season you would think he is employed as a travel guide…

It was remarked on a number of occasions as Liverpool were handed their trophy and medals on Wednesday night that the Premier League is the best in the world…