Tag: factor

11 October 2026 Off

Winless and an ‘easy touch’ – what’s happened to the Anfield fear factor?

By Total Football News

While Liverpool have won twice on their travels this season, they now sit ninth in the league – and their main issue seems fairly clear.

They have scored just seven goals this season – just twice at Anfield – and only seven teams have managed fewer.

It was early on in the first half when the cameras panned to Alexander Isak, Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai in the Main Stand

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22 July 2026 Off

Liverpool: The Jeff Bezos factor – unpicking puzzle of Liverpool’s potential investors

By Total Football News

For now, Liverpool supporters are left with more questions than answers.

Since completing its takeover of the club in October 2010, Fenway Sports Group, then known as New England Sports Ventures, has established itself as a steady and reliable custodian.

The American ownership group has overseen sustained success on and off the pitch, with Liverpool winning two Premier League titles, the Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, Super Cup and

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2 June 2026 Off

Sheffield Wednesday: Feel-good factor back at Hillsborough

By Total Football News

Togetherness has not always been a word associated with Sheffield Wednesday over the past decade.

It never felt like former owner Dejphon Chansiri was particularly interested in bringing everyone together, but these are different times.

The club’s Supporters Trust, external launched a fundraising campaign last week. The aim was to raise money for three key causes – to purchase season tickets for deserving supporters who can not afford one,

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24 June 2025 Off

Middlesbrough: Owner Steve Gibson a big factor in Rob Edwards taking job

By Total Football News

Edwards moves to the Riverside with a different backroom staff to the one he had at Luton.

He worked alongside Paul Trollope and Richie Kyle at Kenilworth Road, but Kyle is now at Bolton Wanderers and Trollope has been linked with joining up with Will Still at Southampton.

Edwards’ new-look team includes Adrian Viveash, who was number two to Mark Robins for seven years at Coventry City, and the younger

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1 December 2024 Off

Man Utd 4-0 Everton: Has Ruben Amorim brought back feel-good factor?

By Total Football News

Despite lifting the Carabao Cup and FA Cup, the Red Devils seemed to lack any sort of identity under the haphazard style of Ten Hag, ending eighth last season, their lowest Premier League finish.

But Amorim’s 3-5-2 formation, which brought so much success at Sporting, is starting to take shape at United, with diligent counter-pressing instilled in the system.

Marcus Rashford and Joshua Zirkzee both scored twice, punishing Everton’s individual

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