Much like how employees make a company great, the players are what makes a team great. And these lot are worthy of that sort of respect …
The last thing we’d want to do is launch any pressure on the Frenchman’s shoulders by saying this, but you simply cannot doubt how talented he is. Serving as the ‘bright spark’ for Newcastle United this season, Allan Saint-Maximin is not the kind of player… Read More »Analysing the Bright Future of Allan Saint-Maximin
Today, we’re gonna look at somebody who probably doesn’t get the adoration he deserves in the SPL. And it isn’t Scott Brown! In his pomp, Jermain Defoe established himself as one of the most explosive and accurate strikers of his generation. But once he moved… Read More »Jermain Defoe & His Big Role in the Rangers Setup
The life of a football player is one that many of us would love to have, yet there’s an unwelcome presence in that lifestyle which many of us would despise … the media. In case you’re unaware of what I mean by the ‘dentist chair’,… Read More »The ‘Dentist Chair’ Revenge for England at Euro ’96
There are few things more beautiful in the sporting world than a tasty return … and here, we have perhaps the most heralded of the lot! In case you didn’t know this, Robbie Fowler was once a very good football player. Actually … he was… Read More »When ‘God’ Robbie Fowler Returned Home in 2006
I remember watching this little Argentinian even in his early days and thinking there’s no way to halt his progress, though maybe this is a way. Ever since I heard of the game known as ‘football’, I immediately held a reverence for the great Sir… Read More »The Sir Alex Ferguson Way of Stopping Lionel Messi
I tell you, I must’ve seen that Salford City docu-series at least 12 times over since it came out, and it just gets better and better every time! At the beginning of this incredible Salford City journey, Gareth Seddon shines as a key member of… Read More »Gareth Seddon: ‘The Cheese-Selling Modelling Hero’ of Salford City (2014-16)
We’re not usually in the business of making top-level transfer predictions like this at Ultra United, for the negativity it can bring, but I think we’re pretty safe on this one. There’s no escaping the fact that Manuel Locatelli has had a very stellar Euro… Read More »Predicting the Post-Euro 2020 Life of Italy’s Manuel Locatelli
You get stories where a single transfer of one player from one team to another can have some truly cataclysmic effects. Then you have the case of Pele and the New York Cosmos. If you’ve never heard of Pelé before then just think of him… Read More »Pelé & the New York Cosmos Dynasty in 1975
It’s an expectable career progression, right? Breaking through the famous Ajax system. Being poached by Real Madrid. Before being shipped off to Spurs. Yeah … completely expected. When talking about some of my favourite playmakers growing up Rafael Van Der Vaart is high up the… Read More »When Rafael van Der Vaart Surprisingly Came to Spurs in 2010
It seems quite apt that, this Father’s Day, we remember one of the game’s most familial figures from the hot seat. There are very few people I get wistful and misty-eyed about, but Sir Bobby Robson is definitely one of them. Not just for his… Read More »An Ultra United Tribute to the Great Sir Bobby Robson