There’s always one every year. One manager who “slams” the fixture schedule at Christmas. It’s usually Steve Bruce, it used to be Rafa Benitez, but neither of those two chaps are bothering us this festive season for various reasons, but this year the baton of chief moaner has been passed to Brendan Rodgers, the Swansea City Manager, who had this to say: “The people who put fixtures together do not have a clue about physical conditioning,” He then went on: &ldq....

On Monday night Chelsea ended Manchester City’s unbeaten start to the season. In doing so they moved seven points behind City, who themselves are now just two points clear of United. In the build up to the match Andre Villas Boas was pretty clear that defeat would mean the end of their title ambitions, but after the victory he was quite bullish about their chances. So are Chelsea back in the race? Are Tottenham serious contenders? Do Arsenal have a sniff? Or can we really look past the Man....

Karen Murphy has the potential to be quite an influential football figure in the coming months and years and what she is doing might just revolutionise the game. Karen, though, isn’t a player or even an Administrator; rather she is a landlady from Portsmouth. She is the landlady of the Red, White and Blue Pub in the City to be precise and six weeks or so ago she won a landmark ruling in the European Court of Justice. She had taken Sky TV and The Premier League to court over her right to sh....