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It’s March, and that means another international break is almost upon us. Because international football is very sensible and we’re still in the midst of a global pandemic that has concertinaed this season to unprecedented degrees, there are just the three fixtures to squeeze in. Jose Mourinho has, of course, kicked off the traditional calls […]
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Chelsea look absolutely brilliant under Thomas Tuchel and he has not had to sign any of his ‘own’ players for that improvement to set in. In the end it boiled down to one factor: Yannick Carrasco’s toxic push-pull relationship with Cesar Azpilicueta. The Atletico winger collapsed under the questionable weight of two challenges at […]
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Liverpool are under the weather and someone genuinely asking ‘are Man Utd the kings of Europe?’ with no hint of sarcasm is unlikely to help. Windy valley Mediawatch is not here to cast aspersions on the veracity or accuracy of a Sun exclusive concerning the thoughts of Liverpool players. It’s a great story. A […]
Read More… from It’s no wonder ‘kings of Europe’ Man Utd are above Liverpool
Real Madrid have been quite a silly team for a little while, and the return of Zinedine Zidane as manager in 2019 was all part of that silliness. Now, though, there is at last a sense of some order being restored. Real Madrid are starting to look like a serious football club once again. There […]
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Twenty-three years ago, Phil and Gary Neville sat down and wrote their diary ‘For Club and Country’. We’re not sure anyone read it then. But you better believe we’re reading it now. Here’s what the Football Book Club podcast thought of it… Bridget Jones. Samuel Pepys. Gary and Phil Neville. All great diary writers. Except […]
Read More… from The Nevilles’ book ‘For Club and Country’: A belated review
“One of those flicks that invariably don’t come off, but this time it’s just trundled into the far corner.” Pretend you don’t know what goal is being described there, or which co-commentator is doing the describing. Now try and picture a goal that could accurately be described by those words. Does it sound like the […]
Read More… from That ‘trundling’ Lamela rabona exposes partisan punditry
Being late (again) when you’ve been specifically told not to be late (again) is the work of a prick. Mainly, though, this week’s prick is a prick for kicking off a flurry of bad takes about his prickishness and forcing this column into a frankly unsustainable cake-and-eat-it hypocro-spiral. So who’s this week’s prick then? […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 26: Tardy Aubameyang and a flurry of takes
Chelsea look to make a long-awaited mark on the Champions League and Solskjaer must force the issue at the San Siro… Game to watch – Chelsea v Atletico Madrid Chelsea haven’t won a Champions League knockout tie since Frank Lampard, John Terry et al beat Galatasaray in the last 16 and PSG in the […]
Read More… from Big Midweek: Chelsea v Atletico, Solskjaer, Bayern, Mahrez
We only allowed ourselves two Liverpool players as we look at those who have gone backwards this season… 10) Mason Greenwood The Manchester United striker is hardly the first talent to suffer a dose of second-season syndrome. But Greenwood’s form has dropped off considerably from the peak of his maiden first-team campaign. His goalscoring […]
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The 29th game of the 2019-20 season was a non-event for Liverpool – they were 22 points clear at the top of the Premier League. Very few would have expected the 29th game this season to be as insignificant; even fewer would have expected the futility to be down to their demise rather than their […]
Read More… from F365 says: Five touches of the old Liverpool amid the new