Stephen Tudor

  • Why progress in the policing of British football is worthy of our praise

    The days of fear and violence are largely gone and in the family-friendly era of modern-day football, police provide a largely benign presence.

  • Walcott, Vardy, Henderson? Why we irrationally hate some footballers

    Stephen Tudor analyses why football fans despise certain players, citing Theo Walcott, without any ostensible reason

  • Premier League: Ten things that have happened since Liverpool last won the league

    Just six short weeks ago Liverpool still had genuine title aspirations, with leaders Chelsea in touching distance and their tails up after four consecutive victories. Having sewn up their eighteenth championship in typically imperious fashion Liverpool travelled to Highbury on December 2, 1990 to face George Graham’s Arsenal. Three weeks earlier – and one thousand miles away in Madrid – David De Gea Quintana was born.

  • Manchester United v Arsenal: 26 years of ill-feeling, grudges and pizza

    For a decade they ruled the north and the south with teams that took no prisoners in their quest for Premier League dominance. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 led to decades of discord between two states that had previously been the best of frenemies. In football terms Brian McClair’s booting of the grounded Nigel Winterburn’s spine in the 59th minute of this fiery league clash did much the same.