Chelsea vs Wolves – Chalkboard analysis.

With all due respect to Wolverhampton Wanderers, Chelsea boss Andres Villas-Boas won’t have cooled all of the rumours and speculation over his future at the helm of Roman Abramovich’s team with a win here, but it was convincing. Villas-Boas has come under fire after some disappointing results, but beyond the knee-jerk reactionaries calling for his […]

Spurs vs West Brom – Chalkboard Analysis.

Harry Redknapp, back from illness, made an important tactical change to come back from an early goal down to win 3-1 against West Bromwich Albion.Spurs were without their two most creative central midfielders – with Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart both absent. Redknapp has often played a 4-4-1-1 with van der Vaart in […]

Mikel Arteta,the Media Puntas and the False 9s

A month ago,i came across this brilliant article by Phil Ball,on the power and rise of the media punta. He explains the reasons behind its importance and states that with an abundance of media puntas,Spain can dominate the world in the years to come. In that article Ball mentioned that,Arsene Wenger was the only manager in […]