“Form is temporary, class is permanent.” One of sport’s finest meaningless clichés, by this stage devoid of practically any semantic content, exhausted after decades of overuse. But in another sense, too, is class permanent: it is, inevitably, part of the …
We need to talk about Shad
Arsenal recently received the news that Mesut Özil will be unable to play for the club until 2015, in all likelihood, having suffered a partial tear of a ligament in his left knee. Özil becomes the latest in a string …
Cesc Fabregas: a Love/Hate relationship
There has been a lot written about Cesc Fabregas in the last week. After going through a difficult break-up to be reunited with a childhood sweetheart, Fabregas has returned to the Premier League with a new flame, leading to a …