Micky van de Ven
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Premier League
Premier League relegation 2026: the best players available from Burnley, Wolves and London’s strugglers
Premier League relegation used to be a quiet executioner. These days it is a transfer market starting pistol. The 2025-26 season has confirmed Burnley and Wolves are heading to the Championship, with Tottenham and West Ham scrapping over the final drop on the closing weekend. Whichever way that last spot…
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Premier League
Tottenham – from Bilbao to the brink and back again
Stamford Bridge in May has rarely felt like home for Tottenham Hotspur. On Tuesday night, under the west London lights, the most miserable season in living memory for Spurs could either be quietly buried or grow louder still. A win confirms top-flight survival. A draw, given a 13-goal cushion on…
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Soccer
Tottenham vs Arsenal Preview – a fiery North London Derby awaits
Tottenham vs Arsenal is never just a fixture, but this one has a slightly surreal edge. Arsenal arrive in N17 as league leaders, trying to keep a title chase tidy after a midweek wobble. Spurs, meanwhile, are looking at the table like it’s a group chat gone wrong: far too…
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Soccer
Champions League Matchweek Four Review
Europe’s showpiece did its best impression of a football festival this week. There were boos you could feel in your ribs, a centre back who sprinted the length of the pitch like a 100-metre finalist, one of the planet’s sharpest finishers ticking onwards, and a Barcelona game that veered from…
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Soccer
Tottenham Season Preview – Can Spurs build on their Europa League success?
The summer sun is barely setting on Tottenham Hotspur’s wild 2024-2025 season, and already, the North London faithful are buzzing with cautious optimism. Last year was a rollercoaster: a Europa League trophy, their first silverware in 17 years, juxtaposed against a stomach-churning 17th-place finish in the Premier League. That’s right,…
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