Alex Keble

London

Columnist at Freelance

Freelance Journalist at Tribal Football

Features and Tactics Writer at Premier League Productions

Football journalist. Tactics & features for @bbcsport @PremierLeague, @SportingLife Email: [email protected]

Articles

Ten things we learned from 2025/26 fixtures

1 week ago | premierleague.com | Alex Keble

After the release of the 2025/26 Premier League fixtures, football writer Alex Keble looks at 10 things we have learned about the season ahead: - Fascinating opening day has plenty of stories - Amorim has challenging start at pivotal moment - Man City favourites if they navigate tough first five - Arsenal's hard start can hand Liverpool advantage - Favourable run-ins for two title contenders - Hectic festive period packed with exciting games - MW5 will be huge, reverse fixtures in MW33...
The KEY matches to look out for in 2025/26

1 week ago | premierleague.com | Alex Keble

After the release of the 2025/26 Premier League fixtures, football writer Alex Keble looks at the standout matches throughout the season. The 2025/26 fixture list has been released and it’s a testament to the strength of the modern Premier League that there are so many big games to bookmark on your calendar.
VOTE: Who produced the best individual performance of 2024/25?

2 weeks ago | premierleague.com | Alex Keble

There were some incredible performances in 2024/25, with several players producing some outstanding displays. Here, football writer Alex Keble has chosen 10 of the best player performances from the season just gone and you can vote for your favourite. Cole Palmer, Chelsea 4-2 Brighton & Hove AlbionPalmer made history at Stamford Bridge by becoming the first player ever to score four goals in the first half of a Premier League match.
FIVE Spurs players who could thrive under Thomas Frank

2 weeks ago | premierleague.com | Alex Keble

Football writer Alex Keble selects five players who could benefit most from the arrival of Tottenham Hotspur's new head coach. Thomas Frank has been appointed Tottenham Hotspur head coach and it’s fair to say he represents a major tactical departure from Ange Postecoglou. Where Postecoglou was infamously ideological, Frank is renowned for being a flexible tactician who moves between progressive possession tactics and a more reactive or direct approach.
More unknowns than knowns surrounding Thomas Frank's enormous step up to Spurs

2 weeks ago | sportinglife.com | Alex Keble

Killing off Ange Postecoglou just after he spoke so optimistically at Tottenham Hotspur’s open-top bus parade was like all main-character deaths: a thrilling way to end a season but at a significant cost to the series arc. Daniel Levy’s perfectly rational decision chooses a future of steady financial growth over the open-hearted possibility of a cultural reset with the wildly entertaining Postecoglou.
Analysis: Will Ait-Nouri signing signal Guardiola evolution?

2 weeks ago | premierleague.com | Alex Keble

Football writer Alex Keble says that although Rayan Ait-Nouri may not be a typical Pep Guardiola full-back, the Manchester City manager has never been afraid of reinvention. There are some Premier League signings that just make sense, and there are others that catch you off guard. It’s fair to say that Rayan Ait-Nouri’s move to Manchester City falls into the latter camp.
FIVE star forwards who could join Premier League clubs

3 weeks ago | premierleague.com | Alex Keble

The summer transfer window opened on 1 June and clubs are already starting to strengthen their squads for the 2025/26 campaign. Here, football writer Alex Keble selects five exciting attacking stars who could be heading to the Premier League. This is shaping up to be a summer of major attacking signings in the Premier League - and perhaps even the birth of a new generation of superstars.
A wild two years: The story of Postecoglou's time at Spurs

3 weeks ago | premierleague.com | Alex Keble

As Ange Postecoglou leaves Tottenham Hotspur, football writer Alex Keble chronicles the Australian's time in charge. Tottenham Hotspur have sacked Ange Postecoglou two years to the day after he was first appointed, ending one of the most eventful managerial tenures in Premier League history.
Choose life. Choose thrilling football. Choose Ange Postecoglou.

3 weeks ago | sportinglife.com | Alex Keble

Sacked in broad daylight, just like that, at 5pm on a Friday, two years to the day since his arrival. Ange Postecoglou is gone. There will be no fairy-tale comeback, no third act resolution. He rides into the distance on an open top bus, triumphant and defiant, leaving behind a legacy that’s strewn like litter across north London. It’s a mess, but it’s a fantastic one. Few managers in English football history can match the cultural impact big Ange made in just two years, mate.
Analysis: Why 'maverick' Cunha is just the player Man Utd need

3 weeks ago | premierleague.com | Alex Keble

Football writer Alex Keble looks at the qualities new signing Matheus Cunha will bring to Manchester United. That didn’t take long. Just seven days after Ruben Amorim took to the Old Trafford pitch to assure supporters that “the good days are coming,” Man Utd have backed up their head coach's words by spending big on a proven Premier League playmaker. And Cunha is pure Man Utd.