City sauntered into the Premier League in style with an unexpectedly outstanding 2018/19 Championship title win. Daniel Farke’s side blew the competition away (yes, even Marcelo Bielsa’s much-vaunted Leeds side) with an attractive, attacking brand of football. After scoring 94 goals and gaining just as many points, the team paraded the trophy around the streets […]
Don’t curb your enthusiasm – football is back!
I thought I would really miss football. In the week before it was all called off, I went to three City games. They encapsulated our season: a 1-0 win at home against a high-flying Leicester side, a captivating penalty win at the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium in the FA Cup 5th round, and then a […]
The Cedric Interview – Part Three: Seeing the Light
In the final part of our interview with Cedric Anselin, we look at how the former Bordeaux and Norwich City player has fought depression, what he does now to help others with mental health issues, and how we can survive without football during lockdown. “I always say we are born with a mouth to talk, […]
The Cedric Interview – Part Two: Darkness in a world of colour
In part two of our three-part exclusive interview with Cedric Anselin, we discuss mental health in football, the blackness that overcame him despite a colourful world he lived in, and how 1999 wasn’t the time to reveal your inner demons as a professional footballer. The concept that ‘men find it hard to talk about mental […]
The Cedric Interview – Part One: Far from a nobody…
In the first of a three-part exclusive interview for MyFootballWriter.com and headersandvolleys.co.uk, former France U-21 international, Bordeaux and Norwich City star Cedric Anselin tells Paul about his early career at Bordeaux, a chance encounter with the ‘Divine Ponytail’ and his relationship with Nigel Worthington. “I’m a nobody. I’m a nobody now.” It is clear from […]