Book release: Superlative Football

Who will wear it best? — Kit reveals are an important ritual for a new season. Here’s my rating of the home and away jersey of all 20 Premier League teams. Arsenal The home jersey is a throwback to the 90s. The lightning trimmed polo collar and white Adidas stripes accentuate the clean design. 4.5/5. The Away…

Square pegs and round holes — Last season, Ronaldo’s transfer was a major talking point. This season, and with one year on his contract remaining, it’s a talking point again. Déjà vu — but in an anti-climactic sense. When Ronaldo was linked to Manchester City, Guardiola famously said that players like Messi and Ronaldo — “they…

How the times have changed — The Premier League is about to enter its 31st season. This is close to a generational gap, which is generally believed to be around 25–30 years. A lot has changed in this time and what better narrator of passing time can we have than the changes in team kits. I…

Help me get there! — As a young journalist, back in 2016, I got an opportunity to visit Qatar and have a glance at what is going to become a central football stage six years later. I came back home with a new iPhone! Yes, those fuckers actually gave me a new iPhone. And not…

For every football fan who’s been living under a rock, the superstar striker Erling Braut Haaland made his move to Manchester City for a fee of 51 million (release clause) euros (ESPN). Manchester City are expecting to pay about 85.5 million euros in total including agent fees, signing bonus and…

The best of the best — Determining the greatest XI of all-time is a perennial debate. Rules, tactics, playing styles, clothing, balls, pitches, and sensitivities — many things have changed as football has evolved over the decades. These factors make it hard, if not impossible, to pin-point a greatest XI of all-time. …

As the Premier League 2021/22 season comes to a close with a dramatic finish at both ends of the table and usual free-scoring games, I look back at what seemed to be a very long season, especially with all the COVID disruptions and World Cup qualifying needing to be adjusted. …

A year ago, a window into dystopia opened for football fans. Owners of the most powerful European clubs drew the curtain up, anticipating fans to get delirious by the spectacle of the most glamourous projects of all — the Super League. But there was no light, whatsoever, coming in from…

How Klopp’s Liverpool is setting a marker for the future — Liverpool’s signing of Luis Diaz had almost gone unnoticed. The big story of winter transfer window was the task on hand for Newcastle United’s new owners as the club faced a relegation scrap. At the elite end, speculation on the anticipated transfers of Mbappe and Haaland was gathering steam. The…