premier league
Everything you need to know about the English professional league; who's on top, who's been traded, and what teams are dropping the ball.
All-Time Premier League: Leeds United
Down the Leeds Road we go, making the journey to Leeds itself. It’s a short trip, and one which would not be necessary had Hilton Crowther had his way. When the original Leeds City club was expelled from the Football League for financial irregularities in 1919, its players were auctioned. Within hours of the auction taking place, a meeting of the club’s supporters had resulted in its dissolution and reformation. Crowther, the chairman of Huddersfield Town, bought the new Leeds United club with the intention of amalgamating the two. To be precise, the former, financially struggling club was to be liquidated and its players packed off to Leeds. The townspeople of Huddersfield foiled that plan, and Crowther had to concentrate on creating a new team instead of moving an old one.
By Robert Gregory3 years ago in Cleats
IPL 2021: Team Wise Players’ List To Miss The UAE
With the BCCI announcing that the IPL 2021 will be resuming in the UAE, several franchises are in a fix. Even though the BCCI will make sure that most of the overseas players be available, it looks unlikely that their respective cricketing boards will give the cricketers the NOC. Hence, the franchises will have to brainstorm a lot about their chances in the UAE leg of the competition. The franchises that will most be affected are the ones dependent hugely on their overseas contingent.
By Student Matters3 years ago in Cleats
At Long, Long Last, the Champions League Final. Top Story - May 2021.
The Champions League final between Manchester City and Chelsea to crown the best soccer team in Europe — even though the two sides both hail from the UK — was always going to be hyped as one of those games where both sides overthink things.
By Hamish Alexander3 years ago in Cleats
All-Time Premier League: Huddersfield Town
For the ninth instalment in this series, we cross the Pennines to Huddersfield – an unlikely location, one might think, for one of the great football clubs; and based on what has happened in the Premier League era, or indeed since the Second World War, one would be right. This West Yorkshire market and mill town, the birthplace of Rugby League, is a stronghold of egg chasing, and its soccer team has spent only two seasons in the modern Premier League, and only seven in the top division of English football (whatever one wants to call it) since its relegation in 1952. It has not finished as high as second, never mind first, in top-level League or Cup competition since 1938. But its inclusion in the All-Time Premier League is not a mistake. For a few years in the 1920s, Huddersfield could claim to be the centre of soccer in Great Britain, and possibly in the world, thanks to a team that had almost not existed at all.
By Robert Gregory3 years ago in Cleats
How the Premier League is Trying to Save the Planet
April 2021 was NOT a good month for the leading football clubs in England. Despite the project now being in stasis, the hullabaloo around the proposed European Super League (ESL) has caused irreparable damage to the clubs involved. Not least to the relationships between those teams and their fan base.
By Christopher Donovan3 years ago in Cleats
What happend to Liverpool FC?
There are six weeks to go yet in the English Premier League, but while no one will say so openly, this strangest of strange seasons is more-or-less decided. Machester City will win the title, likely followed by Manchester United, while Fulham, Sheffield United and West Bromwich Albion will be relegated to the second division.
By Hamish Alexander3 years ago in Cleats
All-Time Premier League: Everton
Now, our alphabetical journey takes us northwards, from the Blues of Middlesex to the Blues of Merseyside. Today, Bill Shankly’s joke about Everton being Liverpool’s second team seems to become truer every year; but it wasn’t always the case, and it certainly wasn’t true when he told it. In 1966, when Everton won the Cup and Liverpool the League, it was a joke between equals. For the last fifty years, Liverpool have been pulling further and further ahead, in public profile and in the honour roll, almost continuously; and every time Everton have threatened to emerge, the Reds have been present, on or off the pitch, to push the Blues back into their widening shadow.
By Robert Gregory3 years ago in Cleats
In Praise of ‘El Loco’
The stories are legion. Here’s the funny thing, though. Most of them are true! There was the time when Marcelo Bielsa, 65, took over a struggling football club in the UK’s second division and the first question through his mind was: How long does the average fan have to work to be able to pay for a ticket to watch what was then a distinctly ordinary team of under-performers? How many hours does that supporter have to put in on their job to be able to buy that ticket? Using a weird, eccentric, unscientific calculation of metrics, he came up with the answer three.
By Hamish Alexander3 years ago in Cleats