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Team Focus: Are Doubters of Sherwood's Tactical Nous Being Vindicated?

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Team Focus: Are Doubters of Sherwood's Tactical Nous Being Vindicated? The season started so well for Aston Villa. After a summer of comings and goings, with the likes of Idrissa Gana, Jordan Veretout and Jordan Amavi arriving at Villa Park in the wake of Christian Benteke’s big money move to Liverpool, fans were confident of bettering their 17th-placed finish la...

Team Focus: Is Tim Sherwood the Man to Keep Villa in the Premier League?

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Team Focus: Is Tim Sherwood the Man to Keep Villa in the Premier League? It’s not hard to see where the problems at Aston Villa lie. Their lack of goals have become a standing joke: Jasper Carrott did a gag in the eighties about his club, Birmingham City having a Month of the Goal competition, and when Aston Villa had to cancel their Goal of the Month award in Octo...

Team Focus: Instability Continuing to Derail Spurs' Ambitions

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Team Focus: Instability Continuing to Derail Spurs' Ambitions There’s a story of Roy Keane’s new autobiography that begins with him waiting for Alex Ferguson to give his team talk before a match against Tottenham Hotspur. It’s an anecdote Keane uses to explain Ferguson’s feel for what a dressing-room needs, but it also says much about S...

Team Focus: Transitioning Tottenham Need a Change from Tim

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Team Focus: Transitioning Tottenham Need a Change from Tim Tottenham Hotspur remain a club stuck in transition. After Sunday's derby defeat to Arsenal, any hopes of a top 4 finish are now gone, and with the team also on the verge of a Europa League exit to Benfica, the period between now and May represents nothing more than a wait for the off season, and wi...

Team Focus: Changes Taking Effect with Sherwood in Charge at Spurs

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Team Focus: Changes Taking Effect with Sherwood in Charge at Spurs Tim Sherwood, perhaps understandably, took issue with certain perceptions. After his Tottenham Hotspur side had been eviscerated by Arsenal in the FA Cup, and endured entire tracts in front of their defence repeatedly exposed, the new White Hart Lane boss was asked why he risked playing an outdated ...