Ryan Fraser has enjoyed quite the transformation during his time at Bournemouth. When he arrived from Aberdeen in January 2013 he was unfit and overweight. “I used to have Domino’s all the time and ice creams from Baskin Robbins,” the Scot admitted in an interview in 2017. Eddie Howe quickly put a stop to Fraser’s penchant for takeaways. And over the following six seasons,...
As we approach the final months of the Premier League campaign, talk has turned to which players are in the running for this season’s PFA Player of the Year award, with votes already cast. Virgil van Dijk and Raheem Sterling, key figures for Liverpool and Manchester City respectively in the battle for the top-flight title, are the current frontrunners, but it is likely the entire shortlist w...
Winnings fouls can be an art form. There are those players, usually attackers, who know how to get their body in front of an opponent to draw contact in dangerous areas. There are certain challenges – innocuous trips for instance – that can irk referees, while other thunderous and potentially reckless tackles can be let go. Which of these fouls receive yellow cards appears to be random, the luck o...