Can Sunderland cope without midfield lynchpin Ndong during AFCON 2017?
by Jonathan Wilson
at mercredi, déc. 28 2016 13:25
They may still be third bottom, but Sunderland are actually playing relatively well at the moment. Not for the first time, they are left reflecting on what might have been had they actually turned up in the first two months of the campaign. If the season had begun on November 1st, David Moyes’...
Does Ozil deserve criticism for role in Arsenal loss to City?
by Jonathan Wilson
at lundi, déc. 19 2016 16:10
The Expert: Have Everton sufficiently improved under Koeman?
by Jonathan Wilson
at lundi, déc. 12 2016 12:00
How long does a manager have? Patience is in short supply in modern football. The year or two that a Don Revie or a Brian Clough were granted to turn their clubs around - let alone the five Sir Alex Ferguson was allowed - is a distant memory and the demand is always for instant success. Whether that...
Are Bravo and Karius as bad as they have seemed?
by Jonathan Wilson
at lundi, déc. 5 2016 17:26
It was a mixed weekend for high-profile goalkeepers in the Premier League. Although Thibaut Courtois made a number of fine saves and David De Gea made a startling block from Kevin Mirallas, both Claudio Bravo and Loris Karius were partly responsible for their defeats.With Bravo, of course, this is p...
Can Arsenal regularly rely on Alexis to bail them out of danger?
by Jonathan Wilson
at lundi, nov. 28 2016 12:30
The Expert: Anichebe & Sunderland giving one another a second chance
by Jonathan Wilson
at lundi, nov. 21 2016 16:05
When Sunderland picked up Victor Anichebe on a free transfer at the beginning of September, it seemed a move born of desperation. Sunderland desperately needed a striker as back-up for Jermain Defoe and Anichebe desperately needed a club having been released by West Bromwich Albion following a seaso...
The Expert: How big a loss will Mane be to Liverpool in January?
by Jonathan Wilson
at lundi, nov. 14 2016 12:45
The Expert: Is Coutinho the Premier League's best player?
by Jonathan Wilson
at lundi, nov. 7 2016 12:00
There was a time in the early eighties, when the suspicion was that physical attributes were becoming more important in football than the technical or the creative, that Hans-Pieter Briegel was held up as the future of the game. He was a former decathlete, a muscular and powerful full-back, and, whi...
The Expert: Is Moses proving to be Chelsea's perfect wing-back?
by Jonathan Wilson
at lundi, oct. 31 2016 12:55
Football has become a game predicated on transfers. Whatever the problem, the solution is almost always to sign a player or two. Struggling managers always just need another window or two to turn things around. Buying and selling players, the eternal swirl of trade, is such a dominant mode of though...
The Expert: Could this Sunderland side be worse than last season's Villa?
by Jonathan Wilson
at lundi, oct. 24 2016 12:45