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4 days ago | 
football365.com | Dave Tickner
There remains, somehow, the small but decidedly non-zero chance that Postecoglou pulls an absolute Homer and wins the Europa League. It’s impossible to overstate just how much that transforms everything about this season. It might not be the most important thing about it, but we do think there are only two places Spurs can end the season in these rankings, and those two places are first and last.
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5 days ago | 
football365.com | Dave Tickner
Back in August we set every Premier League team a target for the upcoming season. We enjoyed it so much that in January we did it all again to reflect how the landscape had shifted over the first half of the season. With that season now entirely and undeniably finished, what better time to go back and see which clubs were sensible enough to do as we asked and which ones are Manchester City and Arsenal. The pre-season targets can be viewed in full here, and the mid-season update here.
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1 week ago | 
football365.com | Dave Tickner
“I’ll correct myself – I don’t usually win things, I always win things in my second year. Nothing’s changed. I’ve said it now. I don’t say things unless I believe them.”It’s now assured of its place on the list of great sporting quotes.
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1 week ago | 
football365.com | Dave Tickner
Fair to say there have been Premier League final days with more riding on them than this one, but we still had a fascinating and ultimately wildly controversial scrap for Champions League places and Spurs completing their unimprovable banter season in perfect 10/10 fashion. 1. No doubt about the biggest talking point of the final day.
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1 week ago | 
football365.com | Dave Tickner
With season’s end now just around the corner, here’s a look at five managers who aren’t certain to take charge of their current clubs in the Premier League next campaign. Full disclosure: this has been quite significantly rewritten since we first had the idea before the Europa League final. Nuno Espirito Santo (Nottingham Forest)Obviously and entirely a madness, this one, and perhaps the single most egregious example of a manager becoming the victim of his own success at any non-promoted side.
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2 weeks ago | 
football365.com | Dave Tickner
It’s the final Premier League weekend of the season and that means it’s permutations time as the European places are settled, but to be honest we’re far more interested in joining the great big party that’ll be going off at Liverpool. Game to watch: Liverpool v Crystal PalaceLook, are there bigger and more important games on this weekend? Yes. Pretty much all of them in one way or another.
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2 weeks ago | 
football365.com | Dave Tickner
It is time. There is now sufficient discussion of Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal future that the idea of someone other than him being Arsenal manager at some point in an undefined but relatively near future must be considered as another trophyless season looms. But who could such a manager be? According to the latest odds, in all likelihood it’d be one of these. 10) Carlo AncelottiReal Madrid have lost their patience which should make Ancelotti a top target for anyone here considering a new manager.
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2 weeks ago | 
football365.com | Dave Tickner
You know, a lot of clubs decide against sacking a manager based on one shiny cup-winning performance, opting instead to give the man they were definitely going to sack another chance in the warm glowing warming glow of slightly freakish success. Does it work for those clubs? No, it never does. I mean, these clubs somehow delude themselves into thinking it might but…it might work for Spurs.
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2 weeks ago | 
football365.com | Dave Tickner
Seventeenth place and seventeen years. These are the things Tottenham are up against when they try to rescue a miserable season in Bilbao on Wednesday night. They sit just one place – albeit a great many points – above the Premier League relegation zone in 17th and they haven’t won any trophy in 17 years. And any argument that the latter fact is of no consequence or significance to the current group of players has been blown apart this week because they all keep talking about it. They know.
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2 weeks ago | 
football365.com | Dave Tickner
Ruben Amorim has been consistent in his message that not even winning the Europa League can save Manchester United’s season. Maybe he’s right. The fact they sit 16th in the league, with scope to slump further, remains a mind-melter when you actually stop and think about it. This is, after all, Manchester United Football Club We’re Talking About.
