At highly-charged games, clubs need to employ experts who understand the tribal emotions of football and the potential for incidents. We need highly-trained security personnel, stationed two or three metres apart, with earpieces for communication, around the perimeter.
Harry Kane must look at the Premier League table and wonder why on earth he is still at Tottenham.
The good thing about being a pundit now is you have ex-footballers together and there’s good banter. That’s what it was like in the dressing room every day.
Physical activity can improve immunity, concentration in the classroom and aerobic fitness.
Football has not just been a part of my life: It has been the fabric of my life.
Yeah I’ve got a mouth on me, but what I do is I give it as I see it.
As a player, I was a pantomime villain and I had my limitations. But I was also good enough to captain four Premier League clubs, win 39 caps for my country and be transferred for fees running into millions of pounds.
I wasn’t confident at all as a boy and I’m still not now. I’m one of the shyest people you’ll meet. My success at football was down to playing with my brother and his mates in the street.
I have known Phil Neville personally for 25 years, since I was in the Class of 92 at Manchester United with his brother Gary, and Im going to stick up for him because he is a top, top bloke and a proper family man.
The club is always bigger than the individual, and employers can make a player’s life miserable if they want.
With only 30% of players in Premier League squads qualified to play for England, the accent on developing home-grown talent is heavier than ever.
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