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Football is meant to offer an escape from everyday life. Ninety minutes to forget everything else that’s going on and worry instead about that underperforming left-back or this lazy bastard midfielder or that cheating sh*t of a referee. The real world isn’t supposed to infiltrate this if at all possible. It’s one of the reasons […]
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Let’s start with the good news for Manchester United: that unbeaten away record is now up to 21 games. We will, though, be very surprised if it reaches 22 at the weekend, derby day formbook defenestration notwithstanding, against Manchester City. This was a lifeless, drab display from United in a game that fittingly spent its […]
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If a 1-1 draw was a result that will leave both Burnley and Leicester rueing what might have been, there were plenty of reasons for encouragement for both in the performance. Burnley desperately needed to show… something after the dispiriting goalless draw against 10-man West Brom and Tottenham shellacking. Leicester needed a response to a […]
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Manchester City are running away with the Premier League title. That is terrible news for football – although it wasn’t when Liverpool did it. The truth Hurst Is this the most Sun front page ever? THE SUN: Bring home the Euros and the spirit of ‘66 #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/v5iU3MGDYg — Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) March 2, […]
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It’s ‘bad for football’ we are told, that Manchester City are 15 points ahead of their supposed ‘rivals’. It’s ‘bad for football’, we are told, that Manchester City are cruising towards their fifth title win in ten seasons. It wasn’t ‘bad for football’ when Liverpool walked away with last season’s title – it was historic, […]
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For the first 30 or even 40 years of your life, all those tributes on the news to the recently deceased are to old people you’ve never heard of, or know little about. But once you’re into your 40s, it begins. Movie stars, musicians and TV personalities start disappearing and believe me, it begins to […]
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Offensive, foul and inappropriate. Call it what you will, but for as long as the terraces are no-go areas, profanity is here to stay. Lately it seems we can’t get through a match without the commentator apologising to viewers for overheard “industrial language”. Indeed, if you tuned in to last week’s clash between Atletico Madrid […]
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Send your thoughts on Pep Guardiola not being that good and more to theeditor@football365.com. Sol searching I agree with a lot of what RQT has said, except that I believe those reasons to keep Ole are good reasons to keep any manager, and the reasons to fire him, well only a couple of those […]
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This season has been unlike any other. Crammed in to a tighter schedule than ever before, and pretty much running right on from the previous also uniquely difficult season. Nobody has found it easy, apart from Manchester City. But everywhere else weariness is setting in, muscles are twanging and joints are creaking. Managers are searching […]
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Who are the go-to guys off the bench? Arsenal 1) Eddie Nketiah – 11 2) Nicolas Pepe – 8 3) Dani Ceballos – 7 Nketiah has played only 10 minutes since Christmas and hasn’t even made the bench for the last five games. West Ham probably sounds very appealing right now. Aston Villa […]
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