The footballers' three steps to heaven or hell

With Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix sniffing around the Premier League, our man inside the game expects everything we have come to know, love and loathe about modern football to be inflated once more.

In football as in life everything comes in threes. Back threes, titles, hat-tricks. Three is the magic number.

Just a quick word on Aguero, and in particular, players travelling abroad during the season for a jolly. Every manager is different of course but for the most part they are usually dead set against their players taking off to different countries in the middle of a run of games. In all honesty it is a conversation that I wouldn’t have even had the balls to have with my managers. If a manager felt the need to give us a few days off he would mention explicitly that we were not allowed to leave the country and he’d even phone us on the Sunday to ‘make sure we were OK’.