Charlie Rhodes

It’s one of the most tiresome cliches in football these days, yet one that most in the public eye can unilaterally agree on. Liverpool, they say, are a team of…

As I write this I’m watching Everton lose to Fulham at Craven Cottage and as a Liverpool fan it puts absolute delight in my heart to see Everton in the…

Despite conceding a goal in the first minute Manchester United rallied back through Giggs and Anderson (yes, Anderson!) to make it 2-1 at half-time. A second yellow to Paul Scholes…

England qualifications are not used to happen this way. Where was the last-gasp heroic goal, the nervous, stuttering qualification that went down to the wire, the sharpening of knives for…

After an international induced Premier League hiatus, England’s top tier returns with some standout games for spread punters to look forward to, featuring mouth-watering ties between North London and Manchester’s…

Without wishing to pre-empt the entire article, Jermaine Defoe is a very good football player, not a world-class football player. There is much empirical evidence to substantiate this, but what…

DC United is Major League Soccer’s most storied and most successful club. Since becoming a founder member of MLS in 1996, United have piled no fewer than twelve pieces of…

Join former Arsenal player Adrian Clarke and co-host Iain Spragg every Thursday on the new-look Soccerlens Podcast. These two highly experienced journalists love to debate all the hottest football topics…

The unadulterated thrill of witnessing a magical moment of attacking inspiration is what keeps many of us hooked on the beautiful game but let us never forget that at the…

Today a four year legal battle that has dominated the national and international news has come to an end, Michael Shields has been pardoned by the British government following his conviction for attempted murder in a Bulgarian court. After serving time in both Bulgarian and British prisons Michael Shields will be freed in the coming days a thought that must have seemed a long way off following his conviction and 10 year sentence four years ago.

In this article I do not want to re-examine the court cases, whatever events transpired that night or in the following years will be covered infinitum by better educated fellows than myself. I like to write about football and the greatest question in my mind is not was this an injustice, but what has this to do with football?

Headline after headline links the crime and football that the accused supports almost implying that the two are directly related when breaking the news today the BBC used the headline ‘Pardon for Football fan Shields’. This headline is technically accurate however this crime was not committed at a football match, it was not committed in the aftermath of a match, nor was it committed in the name of football.

Round 5 Review Melbourne Victory vs Newcastle Jets 1-1 Etihad Stadium 15,168 Despite being able to sustain a high crowd, Melbourne weren’t able to replicate that luck on the pitch,…

How does one go about measuring greatness in football? I mean real, obvious, blatant greatness; that rarest of qualities. Today “greatness” is such a woolly, over-used term that sometimes we…

Watch World Cup qualifiers live here. International press conferences at the best of times tend to be mundane, by the numbers affairs filled with platitudes by the key figures within…

It was Mark Lawrenson who once said that he didn’t concern himself with the League Table until 10 or 12 games into the new season. Until then, Lawro suggested, no…

With Grays Athletics’ Chief Executive Mick Woodward standing down from his role at the club after a 10 year stint, which has seen Woodward taking over as manger twice and…