Daniel RyanDec 15, 2021How the PIF will build a second Mecca on TynesideThe astonishment is still ricocheting around football. Lying nineteenth in the Premier League, without a major trophy in almost half a...
Daniel RyanNov 29, 2021Mo Salah: How stalling on his contract to lead to a new, financial big threeOpposites attract, similarities clash and England’s north west is no exception. Two of the cities most central to the industrial...
Daniel RyanNov 16, 2021England's high road leads them to Qatar, and a moral dilemmaHow many knees are taken to make a hero. Those hazy summer Euro nights are long gone, but this principled England side is not. How many...
Daniel RyanOct 10, 2021Ted Lasso: The manager's message is clearThe sun had long set, the floodlights glared bright and triumph for England was in reach, an extra time anxiousness hanging in the London...
Daniel RyanOct 2, 2021Football's vaccine passport problemI’ve seen some strange things on the news whilst sitting in hospital waiting rooms. A few weeks ago, the biscuit was taken. As I waited...
Daniel RyanJul 13, 2021The FA's role in England's final reckoningThe script said; England triumph to heal the nation, to restore the Blighty Buzz, much as London 2012 did. Instead, carnage ensued around...