Steve Morton/Empics Sport
Tottenham Hotspur are something of an enigma in the English game. Renowned for playing attractive football, there always seems to be a flaw holding them back from going on to achieve bigger and better things.
Since the inception of the Premier League, Spurs have flirted with relegation, been mired in mid-table mediocrity and have, at times, excelled while never really troubling the top teams.
They have never really been helped by numerous changes in management, which has seen the likes of Ossie Ardiles, Gerry Francis, Christian Gross, George Graham, Jacques Santini, Martin Jol, Harry Redknapp and many more waltz through and then slouch out of the seemingly ever revolving manager’s door at the Lane.
Some truly wonderful players have entertained the White Hart Lane faithful. Jurgen Klinsmann, Teddy Sheringham, David Ginola and Luka Modric are just a selection of the fantastic players Spurs have had within their ranks.
Tottenham Hotspur are something of an enigma in the English game. Renowned for playing attractive football, there always seems to be a flaw holding them back from going on to achieve bigger and better things.
Since the inception of the Premier League, Spurs have flirted with relegation, been mired in mid-table mediocrity and have, at times, excelled while never really troubling the top teams.
They have never really been helped by numerous changes in management, which has seen the likes of Ossie Ardiles, Gerry Francis, Christian Gross, George Graham, Jacques Santini, Martin Jol, Harry Redknapp and many more waltz through and then slouch out of the seemingly ever revolving manager’s door at the Lane.
Some truly wonderful players have entertained the White Hart Lane faithful. Jurgen Klinsmann, Teddy Sheringham, David Ginola and Luka Modric are just a selection of the fantastic players Spurs have had within their ranks.
- 3/13/2015
- by Chris Dowding
- Obsessed with Film
Mike Egerton/Empics Sport
In the early years of the Premier League, having a hardman in your team was seen as a necessity. From Roy Keane to Stuart Pearce, the division was littered with players who prided themselves on their tough tackling and no nonsense approach. However, today such characters are a rarity.
Arsenal themselves have boasted several hardmen over the years. The start of Arsene Wenger’s reign was perhaps the dying embers of that type of player, with Tony Adams and co representing a throwback to the George Graham era.
Since then, it would be fair to say that the modern game has taken a shift. Out went the bruising tacklers and in came the tiki taka passers. It means we have witnessed less fighting and bone-crunching challenges, and more handbags and diving. A sight that must certainly infuriate Vinnie Jones and the rest of Wimbledon’s ‘Crazy Gang’.
Of course,...
In the early years of the Premier League, having a hardman in your team was seen as a necessity. From Roy Keane to Stuart Pearce, the division was littered with players who prided themselves on their tough tackling and no nonsense approach. However, today such characters are a rarity.
Arsenal themselves have boasted several hardmen over the years. The start of Arsene Wenger’s reign was perhaps the dying embers of that type of player, with Tony Adams and co representing a throwback to the George Graham era.
Since then, it would be fair to say that the modern game has taken a shift. Out went the bruising tacklers and in came the tiki taka passers. It means we have witnessed less fighting and bone-crunching challenges, and more handbags and diving. A sight that must certainly infuriate Vinnie Jones and the rest of Wimbledon’s ‘Crazy Gang’.
Of course,...
- 7/9/2014
- by Simon Collings
- Obsessed with Film
Arsenal have been a staple of the English Premier League from its origins in 1992, and is the club with the longest consecutive stay in the highest league in English Football. Nevertheless, in recent memory, Arsenal have suffered a lull in their ventures for glory and trophies, with a current trophy-less dry spell from 2005 onward. Despite this current strife, the teams that Arsenal have been able to construct in their Premier League history have often been some of the best in the league, from the defensive backbone under George Graham to the free-flowing counter-attacking that has typified Arsene Wenger’s long and distinctive regime. In a time when it appears all too easy to question the mentality and talents of the Arsenal squad and direction, it is worth reminding any worried Gunners fans of the great players that have emerged from relative obscurity into household names during their time in North London.
- 6/15/2013
- by Callum Wiggins
- Obsessed with Film
On Sunday afternoon Wembley stadium will be awash in the red of Liverpool and blue of Cardiff. Both sets of fanatical fans are respected throughout football as being among the most genuine and loyal, showing respect to their own teams and opposition alike. By Sunday evening one set of supporters will be heading home disappointed and the other celebrating the first trophy of the English season – with the guaranteed ‘booby’ prize of the The Europa League! But despite the much maligned competitiveness of the Carling Cup a trophy is still trophy and you can bet that behind closed doors both Arsene Wenger and Avb would swap places with either manager to keep their respective teeth baring chairmen from the door.
For Liverpool it’s the opportunity to end a six year trophy drought (after 2006′s Fa Cup ‘The Gerrard Final’) in surprisingly a first visit to the new Wembley (since...
For Liverpool it’s the opportunity to end a six year trophy drought (after 2006′s Fa Cup ‘The Gerrard Final’) in surprisingly a first visit to the new Wembley (since...
- 2/26/2012
- by Matthew Gunn
- Obsessed with Film
Chariots of Fire, directed by Hugh Hudson 30 years ago and featuring Colin Welland's landmark screenplay, is still top of my podium when it comes to sport on the big screen
Radio 5 Live has been excelling itself with some reflective features far from the madding crowd of its usual breathless hurly-burly. Acclaim for Steve Bunce's revealing monograph of the recent Amir Khan contest was followed last week by The Glasgow School, a fascinating study of Glasgow football managers' extraordinary domination of England's Premier League, and a telling homage to the boxing film Raging Bull, in which both leading protagonists, actor Robert de Niro and director Martin Scorsese, persuasively relived their input.
The producers and crucial backroom gang at Radio 5 too often modestly decline to give themselves a credit; the latter two features were both presented by the excellent Mark Chapman, an appealingly lucid enthusiast, who let George Graham and...
Radio 5 Live has been excelling itself with some reflective features far from the madding crowd of its usual breathless hurly-burly. Acclaim for Steve Bunce's revealing monograph of the recent Amir Khan contest was followed last week by The Glasgow School, a fascinating study of Glasgow football managers' extraordinary domination of England's Premier League, and a telling homage to the boxing film Raging Bull, in which both leading protagonists, actor Robert de Niro and director Martin Scorsese, persuasively relived their input.
The producers and crucial backroom gang at Radio 5 too often modestly decline to give themselves a credit; the latter two features were both presented by the excellent Mark Chapman, an appealingly lucid enthusiast, who let George Graham and...
- 5/3/2011
- by Frank Keating
- The Guardian - Film News
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