Clarke one nil

This is Clarkeonenil’s regular comment column, cutting through the various passing issues of football and getting to the core principle in the shortest time.
Silly ideas factory.
When the PL set itself up as an independent league, pretending it was entitled to set its own regulations, it at least had the common not to actually do anything [...]

Every supporter of a PL club with ambitions in Europe should read this: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/display.var.2533188.0.club_for_sale_whos_buying.php for that is a fortetaste of the future to come of some of them.

You would think as a Leeds fan I would be pleased to see this piece of intellectual ruminating that appeared in this morning’s Daily Mirror: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/stan-collymore/To-make-the-Premier-League-the-best-get-Leeds-and-Newcastle-back-get-rid-of-small-clubs-and-scrap-relegation-and-promotion-article201025.html well you’d be wrong, very wrong.
Rather die than be promoted by stealth.
Lets gloss over, mainly for the benefit of sanity the reality that Stan Collymore’s place in history will [...]

Two weekends into the new Premier League season and already we are witness to the wonderful range of whinging, moaning and one-eyed comments that have become compulsory with top division managers and coaches. Egged on by the controversial provoking nonsense that is the John Champions of this world and badgered by questions so convoluted they [...]

As the close season gets shorter and television saturation beams games involving Premier League clubs live from every Asian city that would host them it becomes important to have a fixed point where it’s appropriate to start getting excited about the new season. In my case it isn’t the first pre-season friendly I attend (which [...]