TONY EVANS: FA should act now and make change at the top

TONY EVANS: FA should act now and make change at the top

THE defence for Roy Hodgson seems to come from two angles. The first is based on the assertion that he is a “nice man”. The second is that there is no other viable candidate for the England manager’s job. The apologists at the FA also believe that Hodgson has overseen...
PREMIER LEAGUE MUST WAKE UP TO THE GRASS ROOTS CRISIS

PREMIER LEAGUE MUST WAKE UP TO THE GRASS ROOTS CRISIS

FORMBY, an affluent suburb on the outskirts of Merseyside, has been home to enough Premier League footballers to put together a star-studded mixed age representative team. Steven Gerrard, Leighton Baines, Jordan Henderson, Alan Shearer, Neil Ruddock, Glen Johnson,...

NINETY NINE AND A HALF PERCENT

 by Sam Jones   99.5%. A fairly impressive figure, but what is it? Liverpool’s chance conversion rate in the 2011/12 season? The percentage of Paul Scholes’ tackles that were so late that you would have received compensation if he was an airline? The weekly...