Although teams can often defy financial logic for a time, to move up a tier is incredibly difficultThe easy thing is to blame the manager. It has become football’s default response to any crisis. A team hits a poor run or loses a big game: get rid of t…
PSG’s signing of Lionel Messi shows celebrity is trumping competition | Jonathan Wilson
Ligue 1 looks unhealthily one-sided and it is not alone: the domination of the game’s super-clubs is only just beginningIt gets to Sunday evening. You’ve done your chores. You’ve had your dinner.You’re tired. You have work on Monday. You just want some…
Harry Kane shares blame but Spurs’ failure to invest led to this outcome | Jonathan Wilson
Tottenham striker has been criticised but he has a right to be selfish – and to question the club’s inaction over past two yearsThe tendency always is to oversimplify, to try to find one person to blame: if only he had acted better, if only he had done…