Opinion

You can forget the season of goodwill. This, like every Christmas programme, promises to be a punishing affair on the anxiety levels of the passionate Fantasy manager as much as the sinews of the Premier League footballer. We should prepare ourselves for twists and turns; some freakish points hauls...

This morning’s preamble finds us taking a different route. While we normally spend this time debating Rafael Van der Vaart’s hamstring, or the rotational whims of Roberto Mancini, this weekend we seem to have found some balance – an almost zen-like calm...

The cold now biting, my Saturday mornings are spent defrosting the fingers with a mug of coffee, before ...

Having brought the pre-amble back last weekend, I made a rod for my own back. Determined to deliver on my promise however, I made my way to the paper shop, gathered the necessary journals and scribed what has become a Saturday morning favourite...

Yes it’s back. The Pre-match Preamble figured as part of the Saturday morning schedule for much of last ...