In today’s academy structures, a certain suffocating philosophy is breeding normalcy amongst players. The verve of attacking football is forfeited and an intensive possession-based philosophy reinforced...
Chief among those who love to write their own headlines are the strikers who; upon grabbing the goals that push their team on towards their ambitions,...
These players are all experts at impacting a game in both penalty areas, and in the vast swathes of grass in between. The box-to-box central midfielder...
The first of the midfield roles to be explored in The Boot Room’s Top 5 series for the 2015/16 Premier League season is the holding midfielder....
It would be fairly easy this season to ignore the contributions of Mousa Dembélé for Spurs. Most opposition fans do, actually. However, his partnership in the holding...
In this second slot of five centre-backs, The Boot Room’s latest instalment in this series examines the best candidates for the top performer at the heart...
In the second part of The Boot Room’s series to find the Premier League Team of the Season, we move to right-backs – the first of...
The signings of both Ben Davies and Kieran Trippier in 2014 and 2015 respectively were not exactly the ones that brought Spurs fans dreaming of the...
This has been one of the most turbulent seasons in Premier League history. Chelsea; still the defending champions by definition at least, spent the first months...
The Barclays Premier League made a welcome return after a week off to accommodate a couple of international fixtures all over the globe, and a goal-packed...
Team chemistry has been gaining increased importance in international football, perhaps after recent title-winning nations seemed to have been built on the backs of their most successful...
The left-back role for England is arguably one of the strongest positions in the squad regarding the depth and quality of the full-backs that Roy Hodgson has...
With the international break done and dusted, the Premier League season is entering its final furlong. There are now just a little over six weeks separating...
Looking back almost nine years to the date when Gareth Bale secured his move to Tottenham Hotspur, it is time to judge his progress all the...
After receiving his football education abroad with Sporting Lisbon, Eric Dier completed his move back to England with Tottenham before the 2014/15 season for a small...
