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It will be all eyes on a Jose Mourinho-less Tottenham, who could be set free like Sam Allardyce’s Baggies in another Big Midweek… Game to watch – Aston Villa v Manchester City The narrative goes that Aston Villa have fallen apart due to the absence of Jack Grealish. They’ve won just two of the eight […]
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It’s time for legacy fans to choose: walk away from clubs that won’t notice you’re gone, or be guilty by association? As ‘Legacy supporters’, for a long time many of us have strongly suspected that our worth to the clubs we follow falls somewhere between f*** all and slightly less. Many of us made […]
Read More… from What do legacy fans do now? Return the contempt?
Jack Grealish is in medal position but has more competition than usual when it comes to the best Premier League players outside the Big Six. This lot scoff at the European Super League. 10) Dominic Calvert-Lewin It is a symptom of how high Dominic Calvert-Lewin raised his own bar that this season might be […]
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Some may call him petty, or churlish, a hypocrite, even ill-mannered; the mask of ebullience has undoubtedly slipped this season. But said character defects can be excused as the unlikeable side-effects of a winner (or a bad loser). They may make you think twice about an impromptu game of Kerplunk, or insist that you’re the […]
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If UEFA stand firm and prevent European Super League footballers from playing for England, we will have to put together a new XI. And finally, England’s massive list of right-backs comes in handy. We have options even after ruling out the long-term injured Tariq Lamptey and James Justin… Goalkeeper: Jordan Pickford (Everton) You can […]
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If a European Super League was based on Champions League pedigree, rather than pure, shameless greed, which teams would make the cut? And how far off would Arsenal be? We’ve looked back over the last decade and awarded clubs points for their European achievements, with some token reward for domestic success, not that any of […]
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Jose Mourinho has been sacked by Tottenham. So what comes next for Spurs? Here’s how it panned out for Mourinho’s former clubs after he made his exit… Porto Appointed: January 23, 2002 Left: June 1, 2004 Days in charge: 889 P68 W45 D14 L9 PPG: 2.19 When and how Mourinho left: The manager departed […]
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When it came, it came just shy of midnight, a cherry bomb tossed nonchalantly into the sport and the door swiftly closed to the sound of skulking footsteps. The European Super League, the closed shop competition in the time of coronavirus and boarded-up businesses, the greed league that we all saw coming but didn’t do […]
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On Monday, UEFA was set to approve the new, awful Champions League format: one big league of 36 teams playing 100 extra games, invented to head off a European Super League. Ah but hold on, too late, that’s already happening. In a move which suggests massive duplicity, six English clubs have agreed to form a […]
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There was a moment towards the end of another soporific Manchester United first-half performance that really captured the mood of the afternoon. It wasn’t anything that happened on the pitch – very little did, really, for 45 minutes and 46 seconds after a narrowly offside Chris Wood appeared to have given Burnley a shock early […]
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