Opinion

BY BOLTON FAN, GILES METCALFE The last 10 years have seen a mixture of massive highs and crushing lows for...

BY ALEX LEONARD The jubilation, anxiety, depression and ecstasy of football all revolve around its two most pivotal and immovable...

BY GEORGE YOUNG And they say Islam is the religion of Turkey. No. Ignore the mosques and the minarets. Without...

BY GILES METCALFE The 2013 edition of BDO’s annual survey of Football Finance Directors (FDs) has discovered that an alarming...

BY ASHLEY GREB Like night follows day and day follows night, everything comes to pass, eventually. It’s a simple principal;...

BY MARK GODFREY So, we’ve reached ten games gone of the 2013/14 Premier League season and as such, a rather...

BY PETE SPENCER Now that England have secured qualification for the World Cup in Brazil next summer there will obviously...

BY TREVOR KEANE Despite always being a game with a ball and 11 players on each side, modern football has...

This article originally appeared in The Football Pink: Issue 1 available to download here http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ED1WO1A BY BILLY TAYLOR June 2013....

BY PETE SPENCER In the wake of Paolo Di Canio’s departure from Sunderland, it has emerged some of the senior...

BY CHRIS LASH I sat down outside a Warsaw sports hall on a bright October day to eat some lunch....

BY MARK GODFREY It's been several weeks since we last dropped in on the Serie A championship in Brazil and...

BY MARK GODFREY OK, as epic journeys go it’s not quite up there with any of Scott or Shackleton’s adventures...

BY MARK GODFREY Everton's disappointing goalless draw at home to West Bromwich Albion demonstrated very clearly that new manager, Roberto...

BY ALEX LEONARD And there we have it. The first weekend of Premier League football for 2013/2014 has passed, and...

BY MARK GODFREY So, it's finally back, riding to the rescue saving me and countless thousands from the hideousness of...

BY MARKUS HORN This weekend, FSV Frankfurt will kick-off their sixth consecutive season Germany's second division (Bundesliga 2). Currently only...

BY NATHAN CARR On Thursday, England crashed out of the Women’s Euro in bitterly disappointing and underwhelming fashion. They lost...

Uncharacteristically for Everton and just a few days after the squad returned from their summer break, the playing roster at...

For several years, German football fans have successfully fought to maintain relatively cheap tickets in the country's new, modern arenas,...

BY ALEX LEONARD After a record-breaking, treble-winning season, it should be nigh on impossible for Bayern Munich's year to get...

In recent years, football fans across Europe have paid increasing attention to the positive development of the German Bundesliga. During...

BY ALEX LEONARD Since the appointment of Roberto Martinez in early June, his arrival has had time to sink in...

So Newcastle United have finally confirmed Joe Kinnear as their new Director of Football on a three year deal. He...

Belgium edged ever closer to qualification for the 2014 World Cup on Friday night after a professional performance saw Marc...

By: ALEX LEONARD Remarkably, the list of permanent Everton managers in the club's 135 year history only reached the small...

Right, let's get a few things straight shall we? I have woken up this morning to be bombarded by assertions...

With just one year to go until the start of the FIFA World Cup in 2014, host nation Brazil finds...

As Barney Ronay points out in his typically erudite summation of the Tony Pulis era at Stoke, there will be little...

Everton’s season started with a magnificent Marouane Fellaini-inspired victory over Man Utd and ended meaninglessly with defeat to Chelsea to...

They call it ‘The Most Valuable Game in Football’. It’s not the World Cup Final, a clash of the titans...

Everton chairman Bill Kenwright is facing the dilemma he wished he'd never have to; choosing the successor to David Moyes....

Milan’s Gazetta dello Sport is today dominated by Juventus and the securing of their second Scudetto in two years. It is the...

With just three games of the Premier League season left to go, David Moyes and Everton have the opportunity to...

When Mr Allardyce was appointed as West Ham manager following the side's relegation to English football's second tier, fans of...

At the end of a reflective week at Goodison, Everton approach next Sunday's Anfield derby three points off a European...

With the Premier League relegation ‘race’ entering its end stage and QPR, Reading, Wigan, Villa, Sunderland and Stoke scrap it...

Anyone who watched the crucial Premier League clash between Arsenal and Everton at the Emirates Stadium would have been struck...

Arsenal and Everton go into Tuesday night’s Premier League clash knowing that defeat could deal a crushing blow to their...

Like all managers in limbo, David Moyes is open to 'uncertainty surrounding his contract situation' jibes, unwittingly offering himself up...

As the Champions League semi-final line-up was completed on Wednesday evening, a mouthwatering last four will fight it out for...

With a fiery attitude on the pitch, the work rate of a pitbull terrier and the infamous assault upon an...

As the race for the top four of the Premier League comes nicely to the boil, the saga took yet...

England’s underwhelming draw in Montenegro ruthlessly exposed some key issues for Roy Hodgson as he struggles to push the Three...

Come and tell us at The Football Pink who you think is the best run club in the Premier League...

This month saw the first release of brand new football magazine Twentyfour7football. The magazine available is in shops at £3.99...

An eternal issue is becoming ever more controversial in the modern game. When is a handball, a handball?   How...

    The recent comprehensive and humiliating FA Cup 6th round defeat suffered by Everton at the hands of Wigan...

Once upon a time one of the key elements to any successful team was its strike partnership.   Throughout the...