Going into the 2015/16 Premier League season, Leicester were chalked up at a huge 5000/1 to win the title by bookmakers around the world. To put their achievement into perspective, the Foxes were a much shorter price with the bookmakers to be relegated from the top flight of English football than they were …
Read More »Are we finally feeling the pinch of Premier Clubs appointing foreign coaches?
Mourinho, Guardiola, Klopp, Conte all incredible managerial talent that will be gracing the Premier League next season but how much of an effect is the constant hiring of top foreign managers having on the English national side. Are we now finally starting to feel the pinch of looking abroad as …
Read More »Will the Football League’s plan for enlargement be a good idea?
Yesterday The Football League announced plans to add an extra division to the current setup, one that if the plan was ratified would see 80 clubs under the auspices of the league and bringing the total of league clubs up to 100. The central part of the extension is creating …
Read More »Week 34 Premier League Preview for MonsterSoccer
The next installment in the series of Premier League Preview’s for the Guys over at MonsterSoccer – 10 games to preview and you can read it all here http://monstersoccer.myshopify.com/blogs/dan-tracey/153170183-dan-traceys-week-33-premier-league-preview Make sure to visit their site where you can get 10% off with your first order by using the code MONSTER10 …
Read More »UEFA considering change to Champions League format
Uefa have announced potential plans to change the format of the Champions League after the 2017/18 season. It seems as if UEFA have been spurred on by the talk of potential breakaway European Super League plans and have felt they need to act to quell any potential breakaway threat. Changes …
Read More »Alternative New Premier League logo Winner is announced
You may remember last month off the back of my dislike for the new Premier League logo that the people at 99Designs got in touch with me and told me about a poll for an alternative logo that was taking place. They were then kind enough to have offered myself …
Read More »Week 31 Premier League Preview for MonsterSoccer
It’s my second in the series of Premier League Preview’s for the Guys over at MonsterSoccer – 10 games to preview and you can read it all here http://monstersoccer.myshopify.com/blogs/dan-tracey/136966407-dan-tracys-premier-league-week-31-preview Make sure to visit their site where you can get 10% off with your first order by using the code MONSTER10 …
Read More »Week 30 Premier League Preview for MonsterSoccer
I announced earlier a new partnership with MonsterSoccer and I’ve written my first article for them. It’s a preview of this Weekend’s Premier League action and you can find it here https://monstersoccer.myshopify.com/blogs/dan-tracey/131739975-dan-traceys-premier-league-week-30-preview They’ll be a Preview each week between now and the end of the season as we get to …
Read More »Ask Real Football Man – Issue 3
Ask Real Football Man returns for its’ 3rd Edition. There’s only the one question this week but it’s still a good one, it was asked by Pavan Gopinath a contributor to the website http://www.thefootballmind.com/ And he has asked “Why do you think English Clubs are struggling to perform in the …
Read More »Choose an Alternative New Premier League logo
You may remember that the Premier League announced a new logo a few weeks ago and the displeasure that I showed from the announcement – which you can read here http://realfootballman.com/2016/02/09/new-premier-league-logo-is-launched-and-its-awful/ Off the back of that I had an interesting e-mail from the people at 99designs, the world’s largest online …
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