Ken Early: Empty echoes are bad but simulated crowd noises are worseAudio-wallpaper crowds are already used by some match commentators on radio and TVMon Jun 08 2020 - 06:00
Ken Early: Why international football is fading into obscurityLast 20 years has seen the international game clearly bypassed by elite club footballMon Jun 01 2020 - 06:00
Ken Early: Liverpool fans, Bamber Gascoigne and a close shave in IstanbulLiverpool’s 2005 Champions League win was memorable for lots of different reasonsMon May 25 2020 - 06:00
Ken Early: Behind-closed-doors could allow football to make some changesWhy not have matches on weekday afternoons or evenings instead of the weekend?Mon May 18 2020 - 06:30
Ken Early: Players coming under increasing pressure to play ballTV companies and the clubs share an urgent economic interest in the return of live gamesMon May 11 2020 - 07:00
Ken Early: Saipan-style division takes hold as Ireland contest group of deathThe urge to “get behind the team” appears to others the historic Irish weakness of green jersey groupthinkMon May 04 2020 - 06:00
Ken Early: German ‘ghost games’ could deepen some dividesSome fan groups are opposed to the idea but survey shows most fans are in favour of itMon Apr 27 2020 - 06:00
Ken Early: Newcastle supporters have full sight of latest exploitation bidGeordie Nation continue to luck out but this time they know what they are getting intoMon Apr 20 2020 - 06:20
Ken Early: Rewatching old matches shows what the present game has lostCurrent teams may beat old counterparts 10-0 but the freedom to play was entertainingMon Apr 13 2020 - 06:30
Ken Early: Mick McCarthy II was no blockbuster, more of a flopShort-term appointment failed to move the team on from conservatism of O’NeillMon Apr 06 2020 - 07:00
Ken Early: Despite coronavirus, Premier League season must be finished if at all possibleVoiding the current campaign would leave far too many clubs unfairly treatedMon Mar 30 2020 - 06:00
Ken Early: Klopp perfectly entitled to have his say on the coronavirus crisisCovid-19 outbreak has spawned a vast political, ethical and moral crisis which affects us allMon Mar 23 2020 - 05:45
Ken Early: Britain marches to the sound of a different drum‘If this Cheltenham stuff was a scene in a disaster movie, it wouldn’t make sense’Mon Mar 16 2020 - 07:00
Ken Early: ‘Resurgent United’ narrative does not stand up to scrutinyBeating Manchester City may help Solskjær keep his job but it only papers over cracksMon Mar 09 2020 - 05:00
Ken Early: German fans take protests to the standsBillionaires at the helm are treated very differently in Germany than EnglandMon Mar 02 2020 - 07:00
Ken Early: Guardiola eyeing what could be a last chance for European glory with CityBeating Madrid would be best way to convince his players this could be their yearMon Feb 24 2020 - 06:00
Ken Early: Without unity of purpose, Barca’s great days aren’t coming backIt’s a two-tier set-up at the Nou Camp: Messi and his friends, and then everyone elseMon Feb 10 2020 - 06:00
Ken Early: It’s time for Pep Guardiola to embrace diversity of tacticsIs he prepared to work on set-piece weaknesses or would it betray his principles?Mon Feb 03 2020 - 09:46
Ken Early: Klopp adds spice to ‘uninteresting’ FA Cup replaysGerman will play youth team in Shrewsbury replay while first team go on holidayMon Jan 27 2020 - 06:26
Ken Early: Solskjaer’s short-term gambles proving very costly for UnitedRisking injured players shows loyal club man also motivated by vigorous self-interestMon Jan 20 2020 - 14:15
Ken Early: Spurs’ passing game may be a thing of the past with MourinhoA side that sits back and lets Liverpool have the ball is actually playing into their handsMon Jan 13 2020 - 07:00
Ken Early: The game has changed so much it’s time to change match schedulesPlayers not only have to cover greater distances in matches but also have to do it fasterSun Jan 05 2020 - 22:05
Ken Early: FAI AGM like a form of group therapy for Irish footballDelegates given a chance to ask questions although solicitors were there to vet themMon Dec 30 2019 - 06:00
Ken Early: The secret of Liverpool’s success - failure is no longer indulgedKlopp is a rare example of a massively successful professional who is simultaneously humbleMon Dec 23 2019 - 06:00
Ken Early: Weak Arsenal fail to tackle Özil on football whatever about politicsClub disassociates itself from player's comments on persecution of Muslims in ChinaMon Dec 16 2019 - 07:00
Ken Early: United expose gaps made by City’s summer mistakesAbsence of Fernandinho from midfield leaves champions open to counter-attacksMon Dec 09 2019 - 06:00
Ken Early: Did Lionel Messi’s team talk help Liverpool beat Barcelona?Club documentary shows Messi summoning the negative ghosts of Rome in Anfield dressing roomMon Dec 02 2019 - 01:00
Ken Early: Can City maintain their intensity even when they’re chasing?Often teams who has excelled under ultra-demanding manager suddenly collapseSun Nov 24 2019 - 22:28
Ken Early: Ireland need to embrace power of positive thinkingIreland scored just seven goals in this campaign. Denmark scored three times as manyMon Nov 18 2019 - 22:40
Ken Early: Thierry Henry, a missed flight, and the invisible hand of historyHow I ended up missing out on the collective outrage about France’s infamous handballMon Nov 18 2019 - 06:30
Ken Early: City ‘superstars’ unconvinced by Pep’s declaration of loveSome squad members have absorbed much highly strung praise from furious managerMon Nov 11 2019 - 06:30
Ken Early: Is Mourinho the perfect man to take charge of what Arsenal is becoming?With the way things are going at Arsenal, maybe the time has come for a lurch to the dark sideMon Nov 04 2019 - 06:00
Ken Early: Tottenham’s gradual decline takes sudden dip against LiverpoolKlopp’s 2018 signings made the difference, while Pochettino signed no one that summerMon Oct 28 2019 - 10:23
Ken Early: Marrying style and substance still a conundrum for SolskjaerUnited fans will lose patience with a team that embraces a counter-attacking strategyMon Oct 21 2019 - 07:27
Ken Early: Switzerland exploit flaws in McCarthy’s grand planIreland looked like a side trying out a new idea in pre-season against SwitzerlandWed Oct 16 2019 - 05:57
Ken Early: Mick McCarthy’s attitude towards Aaron Connolly needs to changeIreland have been getting away with it in this campaign and their luck could soon run outMon Oct 14 2019 - 06:00
Ken Early: Ireland and Georgia have one problem in common - a difficult neighbourFlying 10,000km to watch a match will some day be seen as a mad thing people used to doSat Oct 12 2019 - 07:00
Ken Early: Guardiola’s radical collectivism faces sternest testManchester City boss needs to avert loss of faith in system after series of setbacksMon Oct 07 2019 - 06:00
Ken Early: John Delaney inflicted austerity on everyone in Irish football but himselfThe doomed Vantage Club ticket scheme was a fiasco that cost Irish football dearlyMon Sept 30 2019 - 07:00
Ken Early: Lampard’s presence helping to numb the pain of Chelsea’s declineFans will only continue to back youth policy project if it brings the required resultsMon Sept 23 2019 - 06:10
Ken Early: Owen-Shearer squabble showcases new dynamics of newsSqueaky-clean images were a response to the fearsome tabloid machine of their eraMon Sept 16 2019 - 06:00
Ken Early: Is a new midfield in McCarthy’s plans for Georgia?Perhaps the decision to move Conor Hourihane was actually to experiment in midfieldTue Sept 10 2019 - 22:17
Ken Early: Irish fans are like elderly Brexiteers – stuck in the pastOur football is stuck in the past, and there seems to be no going back to the futureMon Sept 09 2019 - 07:00
Ken Early: Ireland’s retro football provides a familiar resultMick McCarthy in charge, Roy Keane in the headlines – it felt like little had changedThu Sept 05 2019 - 22:38
Ken Early: Spurs fail to frank ambition with marquee signingsPlayers being offered the opportunity to work twice as hard to stay in the same placeMon Sept 02 2019 - 07:00
Ken Early: United paying the penalty for Solskjaer’s indecisionNominating two penalty takers is nominating none, and creating extra uncertaintyMon Aug 26 2019 - 06:30
Ken Early: VAR in danger of descending into pointless pedantryBad call that cost City victory against Spurs highlights a problem with how VAR is usedMon Aug 19 2019 - 07:00
Ken Early: Exit of David Luiz may haunt Frank LampardChelsea manager is now left with a defence which looks shaky and creativity lostMon Aug 12 2019 - 06:00
Ken Early: Lethargic Liverpool may have turned up just in timeTaking the plaudits is great, but now it’s time for City and Liverpool to get back to workMon Aug 05 2019 - 06:54
Ken Early: USA-England promises plenty for genuine football fansTechnical standard of football is irrelevant if you get people to care about the teamsMon Jul 01 2019 - 06:00
