From Beckham To Butt: The Most Valuable Manchester United Academy Players

You will have to rewind to October 1937 to find a time when a homegrown Manchester United player did not feature in the first-team squad; all of 80 years ago in a 1-0 victory over Sheffield United under Walter Crickmer was when a United academy player was last excluded from the main team. It’s an impressive stat […]

Red Devils On Merseyside: United And Liverpool Combined Forces

The biggest game of the season for Manchester United and Liverpool fans has arrived. And as per usual, both sets of fans have a) mistaken it as their biggest game of the season, with this faux rivalry and b) mistaken it for the biggest game of the Premier League season for neutrals. Newsflash: no one […]

Nemanja Matic: Thriving From The Paul Pogba Effect

The highest praise for Man United’s signing of Nemanja Matic this summer was really just “we’ll see how it goes”. £50m on a player that Chelsea didn’t want, who had been so unbelievably disappointing in Mourinho’s final Chelsea season, seemed outlandish to say the least – even if United were crying out for a holding […]

Making Things Personal: The Reason Behind Herrera’s Bench-warming

From Jose Mourinho’s golden boy, to chief bench-warmer; Ander Herrera’s last five months at Old Trafford has u-turned quicker than Steve Parish on Frank de Boer, as the Spaniard finds himself further down the pecking order than Marouane Fellaini. The arrival of Nemanja Matić was always going to occupy a place in the middle of the […]

Rating The Ratings: FIFA 18’s Best Players 40-21

As we discover who are the best players on this year’s upcoming edition of FIFA, we can identify which players will cause users to dance around the room if they get them out of a pack on Ultimate Team. There haven’t been too many surprises in the past three previous sections; 100-81 , 80-61 and 60-41. […]

Speedy Gonzalez: The Premier League’s 10 fastest footballers

Speed is one of the biggest keys to success in football – especially when you want to thrive atop the landscape of the Premier League. The majority of fans consider fast players to be nothing more than ‘pace merchants’, but in reality, their abilities allow teams to get into multiple attacking positions over the course […]

Mr Popular: The Top 10 UK Football Shirt Sales

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has continued his brilliant start to his second season back in England by retaining his spot as the most popular replica shirt this season. His close friend and United summer signing, Romelu Lukaku, came a close second with Chelsea’s Eden Hazard and Arsenal’s marquee signing Alexandre Lacazette rounding out the […]

Weighing it up: Footballer’s worth in the form of hard drugs

There are two outrageously expensive things in life. The first of these is footballers; the second is drugs. Imagine combining the two together, then. You normally end up with a tabloid frenzy and serious legal action but we’re not that boring over here at CLICKON, so we’ve found a much better way of doing it. […]

Premier League ignorance: You lose, China

What riles up us British people the most? Bad tea, worse weather and Robbie Savage to name but three. Nothing, however, seems to annoy us more than the Chinese Super League. Or maybe we’re wrong. Maybe no one cares about it anymore. That’s the way things seem to be right about now. Do you remember […]

What is the best move for Ross Barkley?

Ross Barkley is due to leave Everton this summer, having refused to extend a contract which has entered its final year. Manager Ronald Koeman says Barkley will leave the Merseyside club if an extension is not agreed this summer and Tottenham Hotspur appear most interested in the midfielder. For a boyhood blue, a move away […]