Author: Daniel Cannon
The Cost of Survival: What Squad Values Reveal About the 2025/26 Premier League
The 2025/2026 Premier League season turned out to be one of the most unpredictable seasons to date. After two campaigns of each promoted team being sent back down in the relegation zone, in the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 seasons, only one promoted team in Burnley had to return to the EFL Championship. But to what extent […]
Can Harrogate Town pull off a fairytale story of survival in League Two, after last-gasp winner against Colchester United?
Harrogate Town welcomed Colchester United to The Exercise Stadium on Saturday afternoon, where full-back Jacob Slater scored in the dying moments to topple the visitors 1-0. The Sulphurites kicked off the day rock bottom of League Two, in 24th place, three points off fellow relegation candidate Barrow AFC. The North Yorkshire outfit now find themselves […]
“The bottleneck of the English Football pyramid”: The 3UP Campaign and The Need for Instant Implementation
Imagine the scene. Your team has just scored a goal in the 95th minute to go top of the league in the last game of the season. Playing your title rivals, you go on to concede seven minutes later and miss out on automatic promotion, despite recording 106 points. This was the reality for Rochdale […]
‘History Repeating?’: Manchester United Fans Weigh Up a Permanent Move for Interim Manager Michael Carrick
Manchester United fans are torn on whether to stick or twist with interim head coach Michael Carrick. The interim boss looks to continue his unbeaten record this evening, as Manchester United travel to St James’ Park to face Newcastle United. Across Carrick’s three game spell as caretaker in 2021, and his current return as interim […]
“Wrong Move”: Former British Paralympian Condemns IPC Ruling allowing Return of Russian Flag at 2026 Winter Games
An ex-Team GB Paralympian has slammed the ruling allowing Russian athletes to compete under their own flag at the 2026 Milan Cortina Paralympic Games. This will make it the first time since the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, that Russia and Belarus will be able to do so. Talan Skeels-Piggins, who competed for Great Britain […]
Salford’s Snooker Star: John Virgo’s famous connections and local memories
John Virgo, 79, passed away a week today, on January 5th 2026, in Spain after suffering from a ruptured aorta in the early hours of the morning. The snooker player and commentator was born and raised locally in Salford, where his father, William, was a dockyard crane driver and his mother, Florence, worked as a […]
Galatasaray fans’ thoughts ahead of UEFA Champions League clash with Manchester City
Galatasaray fans from all corners of Europe have travelled to Manchester’s city centre as they prepare to take on Pep Guardiola’s Cityzens in the final UEFA Champions League group game. Manchester City need a win at the Etihad Stadium to break in to the top 8 of the competition and avoid a potentially tricky play-off. […]