Preamble

This is a novelty. For once, we’re not spending our Saturday morning stroll with furrowed brows, riddled with ...

Withdrawals, niggles, air miles and frustration – it’s been a torrid week for the Premier League boss and ...

Come on then. Let’s get going. Roberto Mancini’s waiting, talking Italian. Yes, he’ll be moaning about “Carlo” again ...

This morning’s stroll is a troubled one. Yesterday, The Sun ran with a story that suggested Robin Van ...

Let’s walk and talk. You can spare a few minutes – what I’ve got for you might just ...

The morning stroll around the training complex finds us taking in the tittle-tattle from the press, soaking up ...

With the press publishing their predicted lineups days before today’s Premier League team-sheets are revealed, I’ve switched focus ...

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 ...