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A late winner earns Foden our (far more valuable and important) early winner gong, but even before that potentially decisive moment he had shown time and again just how much of a nonsense he is going to be over the years ahead for club and country. Even in a relatively quiet first half his leg-pumping […]
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Newcastle racked up an xG of 4.30 in their 2-2 draw against Spurs. That number, coupled with the late nature of Newcastle’s equaliser to deny Spurs an absurdly undeserved victory, ensured nobody was really happy after the Misery Derby. But which other performances have produced eye-wateringly high xG numbers? Several other teams have managed to […]
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Leicester’s reported interest in Naby Keita may be little more than a spurious rumour. But whether it has any basis in fact is almost irrelevant: Leicester are being linked with a £50million midfielder, who has shown – admittedly in short glimpses – that he is worthy of such a price tag. It’s not gossip that […]
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‘If Southgate honestly doesn’t think he’s worth a place in the squad then you really have to question the judgment of the man at the helm,’ wrote one Liverpool correspondent, more than happy to lean into his readership. Henry Winter, who really should know better, wrote: ‘It is surely not too much to expect some […]
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Miserable one this week. And it’s not going away. Valencia’s players walked off the field after Mouctar Diakhaby alleged Cadiz’s Juan Cala aimed a racist insult his way. And that was just the start of it… So who’s this week’s prick then? It’s a multi-layered thatch of deeply unpleasant prickery this week, like a […]
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Pep Guardiola has not won the Champions League since 2011. He’s spent much of the decade since reinventing glorious ways of being knocked out. Rafa Benitez once wrote a book called Champions League Dreams. For Liverpool, the trophy has always been an adventure. For Pep, it has been a decade of dismay since lifting […]
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West Ham and Aston Villa are the only clubs to feature twice on a list of the Premier League’s ten best signings of the entire season. 10) Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) There remains six outfielders in the top flight not to have missed a single Premier League minute for their respective clubs this season. […]
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“Jesse Lingard scores a goal-of-the-season contender in a game-of-the-season contender at Wolves to propel West Ham back into the top four.” The last year has delivered plenty of unlikely storylines, and most of them have been f***ing awful. This one’s among the least likely but also least awful. On a weekend when so many of […]
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Erling Haaland will face suitors Man City this week. He may be the latest example of the ‘eye before you buy’ policy. Liverpool used it well. Erling Haaland will face Manchester City this Tuesday as his Borussia Dortmund side look to stop the Citizens winning a maiden Champions League title. Haaland has been linked […]
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Erling Haaland does not need an agent and whichever elite club signs him this summer will be activating an expensive and divisive cheat code. There are few worse sights in modern football than one of the self-styled super agents touring around Europe with their latest massive sack of meat for sale to the highest […]
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