Author Archives: James Forrest

                For 90 minutes at the weekend, all of us went back in time a couple of years, to a period when...

I love football, but there’s something about the game that’s pretty hard to deny. Football, above and beyond any other sport, is incredibly good at...

So is this how it ends? With a whimper? With a team languishing mid-table, out of the title race by November? Does the career of one of the most interesting,...

Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea took another battering, on and off the pitch, over the last few days as this weekend’s Premier League matches saw them defeated,...

Being from Scotland, and being a Celtic supporter, I have followed the story of British football’s most dysfunctional club, the one at Ibrox, keenly. Some...

Is it only me who hates international weeks? Perhaps it’s a Scottish thing. All too often, our performances are the kind you watch from behind your...

Kane and Rooney finally scored. Sanchez hit a hat-trick and Newcastle blew it … again. It was a big weekend for in the EPL, with wins for Manchester...

As this is my first proper opinion piece on this site, I’m gonna clear a few things up about the articles I’m going to publish here. First, when it...

Steve McClaren said, after this game, that trying to turn around Newcastle’s shocking form was “a little bit like a car crash.” He isn’t kidding. Right...

Things are pretty grim up north at the moment, with Sunderland and Newcastle suffering a ghastly start to the season, and one that neither side was able...