Stopping Gareth Bale

Just how do you stop an in form player? When everything just goes right for them, every shot placed perfectly out of the 'keeper's reach, every turn making the defenders looking more and more foolish. Sometimes they make you wonder if it is even possible, when they produce moments of pure brilliance to win the match in the 90th minute.

An Update

As you all will have noticed, the frequency of articles on my blog has dropped significantly since November for a few reasons; but predominantly that I lacked the motivation to write articles. This was due to my quality of content dropping, lacking ideas and also, as it takes me around 3 hours to go through the whole process of writing an article, it is impossible to have any free time due to school and revision for exams.

I'd love to start posting consistently again, but it may need to be less consistent at maybe once a fortnight - a shadow of my previous intensity but it's something.

If you have any requests please tell me through any means of contact, since without any ideas myself, I'm almost certainly going to fulfil them!

Cheers,
Tom

Arsenal 1 - 2 Chelsea: The Gunners fail to Recover After a Dire First Half

I'm finally back! Firstly, apologies for the lack of articles, and without writing for over a month I might be a bit rusty, so if this article isn't great, tell me in the comments but keep that in mind, cheers.

An Analysis of WBA's Midfield

West Bromwich Albion's manager Steve Clarke has been taught by the best, which you can clearly see as he is leading The Baggies to success. The first 15 matches of his management at the Hawthorns have shown promise, as the side who finished tenth last season under now England manager Roy Hodgson are sitting 5th, though level on points with Chelsea at 3rd.

Borussia Dortmund 1 - 0 Manchester City: City Finish their Dismal European Campaign with another Loss

Manchester City's awful campaign in Europe finished with another poor performance to a Dortmund side lacking several key players, the same can be said about City, who had stars such as Silva and Toure missing from the team. Again, with many City matches, the comparison of the team's collective costs was subject to discussion, as Dortmund spent just £30m compared to City's £156m on the starting line-ups alone, the Manchester club has spent 5.2x, or 520% Dortmund, who's team still included talents such as Robert Lewandowski, Marco Reus and Mats Hummels. I feel this doesn't neccesarily pick out how much City have over-spent, but more how well the staff at BVB have done in terms of recovering from the dire financial position they found themselves in not very long at all ago.