Alex Keble
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Why have West Ham been so good since the start of the pandemic?
Plenty has been made of the West Ham's improvements since COVID-19 struck - but football has changed tactically for the benefit of David Moyes' boys → Read More
What Frank Lampard must learn to make his tactics a success at Chelsea – and it's not about being free
So far, we’ve seen that Lampard can set up his team to attack or defend. But can he set them up to control a game? → Read More
Rated! The best Premier League XI this season… without Big Six clubs
The big boys get enough attention, so here's Alex Keble's finest XI without them – not that anyone would get in from... → Read More
EVERY Premier League club’s biggest strength and weakness this season
Almost a third of the way through the campaign, we now have a pretty good idea of how the 20 top-flight teams are shaping up. Sadly for Slavisa... → Read More
Rated! The 10 most overpowered players on FIFA 19
Everybody wants more for less – not least in Ultimate Team, where your money counts and marginal gains could be the difference between... → Read More
How Man Utd fixtures position Mourinho for post-Man City dismissal
The sheer scale and speed of Manchester United's unfolding crisis has been remarkable.After two seasons of gradual improvement, from a Europa League trophy → Read More
Why Spurs need new centre-mid to keep Pochettino project alive
COMMENT: There is a tendency in football to construct narratives based on the smallest of sample sizes, a phenomenon that is particularly prevalent at the begin → Read More
Five tactical changes Mourinho should implement to save Man Utd's season
Having overseen Manchester United's worst start to a league season since 1992/1993 amid a breakdown in communication with Ed Woodward, public belittling of → Read More
Talking Tactics: Bizarre Mourinho; Kamikaze Arsenal; Moura's Spurs best
We are only three weeks into the new Premier League season and already talk of crisis at Manchester United has been the headline story twice. Back-to-back defea → Read More
How to beat Man City: Five tactical things every team must do
Manchester City show no sign of slowing down. In fact, their 6-1 destruction of Huddersfield Town at the Etihad last weekend suggests Pep Guardiola has even mor → Read More
Talking Tactics: Man Utd's mental disintegration; Liverpool power; Sarri lucky
Manchester City's thumping victory over Huddersfield Town, followed shortly after by Brighton & Hove Albion's victory over Manchester United, could → Read More
Arsenal preview: Emery changes are seismic
Arsenal kick off a Premier League campaign without Arsene Wenger prowling the touchline for the first time since 1995. It will take a long time to get used to t → Read More
'Fanatic' Marcelo Bielsa at Leeds: Entertaining but doomed to fail
Landing one of football's most enigmatic and iconic football managers is seen as a huge coup for Leeds United, and yet in reality it's a pretty natural → Read More
WORLD CUP 2018: Why Croatia will be losing sleep over France star Kante
COMMENT: Just four years ago N'Golo Kante was a complete unknown, a £5.6 million Leicester City signing bought from French side Caen after just one season → Read More
Talking Tactics: Four lessons we learnt from World Cup semi-finals
It isn't coming home after all. England's valiant World Cup campaign came to an end on Wednesday night with a disappointing extra-time defeat to Croatia → Read More
TALKING TACTICS: 5 reasons why England should beat Croatia
It is quite incredible that this young, likeable England team are on the verge of reaching the World Cup final for the first time since 1966. It's even more → Read More
Eight players who could blow the World Cup quarterfinals apart
As the World Cup quarter-finals get underway this weekend the draw is split perfectly. In one half, played on Friday, the four remaining favourites face each ot → Read More
WORLD CUP 2018: Top 10 things we've learnt in Russia
It's been a superb World Cup so far, quite possibly the best in history thanks to the VAR drama, late goals, unexpected results, and a peculiar feeling of o → Read More
Talking Tactics: How Germany went from complacency to disaster
As with any epic footballing crisis it is only after the event, after the initial shock has subsided and the search through the rubble begins, that Germany' → Read More
World Cup Breakout Stars - Part Two: Brandt, Balde Diao, Dolberg & Golovin
Sometimes the group stages of a World Cup can be a tad underwhelming, the matches ending in 1-0 wins or 1-1 draws as cagey nations do everything they can to avo → Read More