How the PIF will build a second Mecca on Tyneside
The astonishment is still ricocheting around football. Lying nineteenth in the Premier League, without a major trophy in almost half a...
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Daniel Ryan
Nov 29, 2021
Mo Salah: How stalling on his contract to lead to a new, financial big three
Opposites attract, similarities clash and England’s north west is no exception. Two of the cities most central to the industrial...
Daniel Ryan
Nov 16, 2021
England's high road leads them to Qatar, and a moral dilemma
How 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 Ryan
Oct 10, 2021
Ted Lasso: The manager's message is clear
The sun had long set, the floodlights glared bright and triumph for England was in reach, an extra time anxiousness hanging in the London...
Daniel Ryan
Oct 2, 2021
Football's vaccine passport problem
I’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 Ryan
Jul 13, 2021
The FA's role in England's final reckoning
The script said; England triumph to heal the nation, to restore the Blighty Buzz, much as London 2012 did. Instead, carnage ensued around...
Daniel Ryan
Jul 11, 2021
Southgate, you're the one
“I’m proud to be English again.” It’s been a while since those words were uttered. With England on the brink of their first major...
Daniel Ryan
Jun 8, 2021
Can an England win heal the nation?
Some kids grow up these days thinking the Internet has always been around and footballers have always been paid weekly wages bigger than...
Daniel Ryan
Jan 22, 2021
Football without headers
Imagine a game with no crossbars and the player who retrieved the ball first was awarded the throw in. Football has had some strange...
Daniel Ryan
Jan 16, 2021
Why the A-League and FFA 'unbundling' is bad for the wider Aussie game
The A League and Football Australia closed out 2020 announcing their unbundling, as though their adolescent relationship was one of...
Daniel Ryan
Jan 12, 2021
It's getting VARsical
A couple of weeks before Christmas, my long awaited return to play football finally came to an end. Three weeks on from that game, I’m...
Daniel Ryan
Jan 5, 2021
One rule for the Premier League; elite football's empty stadiums and empty heart
Sam Allardyce has never been one to shy away from expressing the Sam Allardyce way. He played that way, manages that way and speaks that...
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