The Premier League Team Of The Season 2012/13

By Shane Thomas

Quite simple post, this. With the Premier League season now over, here's my team of the season (with a few honourable mentions):

* - denotes my player of the season

Middle Ground

By Shane Thomas

There's no doubt that football is an ever-changing, amorphous construct, open to the altering of trends and demands of the game. In the Premier League, the place of the central midfielder is not immune to this.

Meet The Progenitors

By Shane Thomas


For almost  a generation, it was said that a team needed one crucial element to able to function effectively. I only need to use one name to illustrate this point; Claude Makelele.